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A couple of days ago my husband and I spend a day in Brussels. This may seem like a big deal since it’s in another country, but since we live quite near the Belgian border, it really isn’t. From our house it’s only an hour and a half by car. It wasn’t the first time [...]

I love, love, LOVE movies about Shakespeare. Having studied English literature, I’ve read some of his work and I’ve seen a couple of his plays performed on stage. One of them was in the original 16th century English, others were modern Dutch translations and interpretations. I even visited his birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon, and I’ve seen the [...]

I’ve been wearing glasses since I was seven years old. I vaguely remember not being able to see what the teacher was writing on the blackboard, and from then on I needed glasses. And within a short while I didn’t just need them to be able to read the words on the blackboard, but to [...]

These last couple of months have been quite a rollercoaster ride. After I joined the protests in Amsterdam on October 15th (which resulted in the start of Occupy Amsterdam), I joined Occupy Tilburg in my own hometown. Together with some forty enthusiastic people in Tilburg, who wanted to make a change in the rotten system [...]

Usually I try not to think about politics too much, it’s bad for my blood pressure. I just let it go, thinking there is nothing I can do to change it. Of course I know the world is being led by large multinationals and a small group of outrageously wealthy people. I am aware that [...]

I finally managed to sort all my Mongolia pictures, next to that I also selected some favorite video fragments of the best moments during our trip. This video was taken during a performance of Mongolian throat singing in theatre The Moonstone in Ulaan Batar: This next clip is from the area of Bayanzag, also known as [...]

It’s been little over a week since I returned from my trip through Mongolia, and I feel as if my stay there has been an amazing dream. The nature was not just breathtaking, it was also surprisingly varied. We travelled through the dry and rough Gobi Desert with areas of enormous boulders and rocks where [...]

If there is anything you cannot rely on in The Netherlands, it is the weather (and the government, but that’s another story). Summer may have officially started, but that is absolutely no guarantee for sunshine. One day it can be blistering hot, the next day can be cold and rainy. If you want to have [...]

Rens and I pick a European capital for a city trip every year. In previous years we’ve visited Paris, London, Hamburg, Brussels, Barcelona and Prague and we always had a great time admiring the architecture, exploring the museums and wandering around the busy streets. When I heard there would be a Travbuddy meet-up (through www.Travbuddy.com) [...]

For as long as I can remember I’ve had a couple of agapornis birds, also known as small parrots, in a cage in my living room. About ten years ago I started off with two males, and whenever one bird would die I would get another one so the remaining bird wouldn’t get lonely. Four [...]