Another birthday this week: Mira's birthday, the last one of four while away from home. We have celebrated it nice and quietly with our own family. With a healthy start of the day by joining a 5 km run at 7.30 am in...

Holiday Season is over and we all picked up our regular activities. Most Christmas decorations have disappeared, only a few diehards keep their decorations (like a red nose of a reindear on the front of their car) Our favourite radio...

We have a wonderful Christmas holiday together with my sister Inge, Mark, Luc, Tess and Merel. The report of this holiday comes from Inge ... What do you do when your sister lives in America for a year, and if the traditional...

It was a busy week with lots of activities in the 'boatyard' behind our house. As of this week there are four boats docked. Jack has bought a nice DeFever motorboat and on Monday he brought it home from Ft...

It was an unusually cold week until Friday. People told us that it hasn't been this cold for 10 years. Some Brazilian students of my English class put on really heavy winter clothing with two pairs of pants and a...

We were in Canada for a very nice long weekend visiting Teunis and his family in snowy weather. Quite a change in temperature from 29C with sun to -7C with snow. Oh well, we might as well have some real...

We have a nice and full week and we can't manage with one car, mainly because Marinthe still has a different schedule at the tennis school with two appointments at the physio, and Toine two days before the...