We have had a bit of snow over the last few days and the temperature is always usually below 0 degrees. I was told that out in the countryside about 15 minutes drive from Waalwijk, you get frost in the trees which makes them all white and beautiful to look at. So today, I was [...]
Yet again we shivered in Waalwijk with below zero temperatures recorded each day in 2009. It snowed a reasonable amount during the morning of the 5th of Jan. However it didn’t melt away like before. It stayed there. I have heard reports that tomorrow it will go down to –9. This will make cycling to [...]
On the 12th of December, Auke took me to see the local football team play the visitors from Den Bosch, It was actually my first live football game I have been to.
After rugging up with what I thought was enough clothes we set off. There were many police around (normal for football matches I am [...]
On the 15th of November, the Netherlands celebrated the arrival of Sinterklaas!
This involved watching the main parade on TV that day. Each year Sinterklaas arrived via ship to one Dutch town that has a harbour. There he on top of his white horse and his dozens of Black Pete assistants then hand out candy and [...]
