Hotel Restaurant 't Klokje Renesse

... a little better and we went to see Night At the Museum II at the On Board cinema. It is as good as the original, and it killed a couple of hours.

Nick met us in Harwich. He drove us home and I am very glad he was there to do it. I was not feeling up to a four hour drive after the previous 24 hours. We got home around 12.30 midnight. We have driven 4970 miles (call it 5000), which is 8000km in 41 days, not counting the miles done by the boat.

... got my first long roadtrip on the autobahn under my belt. There were some stretches where we got to try out its "no speed limit" speed limit, and other stretches where we sat in the notorious Friday evening traffic jams. Roughly 5 hours later, and we arrived at the beach around midnight to set up our tents (i lucked out again and got one to myself). The strong wind blowing all night and keeping me up for half of it, proved to be an ...

This morning, we checked out of our hotel in The Hague and headed out to the airport where we climbed aboard our helicopter to head down to Vlizzingen, The Netherlands. There isn't a lot in Vlizzingen aside from what looked like what was once a huge ship yard. We landed near the water front at the Amels shipyard. They make some of the best quality yachts on ...

... The second half of the afternoon was spent wandering through the Morris Museum. This was once a home for a very wealthy family, but now houses a private collection of works that includes, Rembrandt, Vermeer and many others. The art had a very renaissance feel to it, as is to be expected when looking at Rembrandt and Vermeer. The draw to this particular private collection however, it the famous portrait done by Vermeer called, Girl ...

... found the guesthouse an hour later and settled into a beautiful room with a lovely balcony and high ceilings and old furniture and in desperate need of some renovations. It was decorated in every style from Victorian to Art Deco to 70's with old faded paintings on the walls and metallic wallpaper. It was fabulous! The only shortcomings were the nasty little yappy dog who tried to take a piece of my ankle, and the ...

... who were about to take us ashore. The Hamburg schilling is a sort of silver penny - a poor thin battered affair, which looks like the scale of a fish. Fourteen of them are worth one shilling English; but it would not be an easy matter to get as many to stand in an even pile. For the Hamburgers tell, with some amusement, of an English sailor who received a number of these coins in change, and who manifested his contempt for them by laying them flat on ...

... she goes up on her tip toes (I think it's a result of using the chair on wheels...OR she's going to be a ballerina). But, as you can imagine, it doesn't work quite as well to walk on your toes! If she really likes you, Florine has invented a special kiss that she gives you... by biting you on your nose! So funny! Both the girls love to play peek-a-boo and be tickled. They really are just a bundle of joy, always happy and laughing! I am really going to miss them!

... in some of the background on the incomparable Ra. The collective that organized the show cooked and fed us a nice meal and treated us with great warmth and respect. I hope they'll have me back one day for a performance, it'd be wonderful to see them all again. Now it's time to turn my attention to the composition of my monthly On The Road column (#17) for the Little Rock Free Press. I'll post it here when it's done, along with the Radio Show that'll be podcast on Monday, April 3rd.

... and she cries if we try to force her. As you can imagine, Dominique much bigger than Florine now! Every time I pick of Dominique she gets heavier and heavier, but dainty little Florine stays the same! Another accomplishment they have made this month is learning to sit up. Dominique can sit all on her own. Florine still needs a little help so that she does not fall over, but she is very close too. Both the girls can ...

... up more Westvleteren beer from the Abbey of St. Sixtus. This is the special beer that is only available at the monastery itself and only during certain hours and only when the monks have felt like brewing and therefore have beer available. While in Belgium they also visited Antwerp. THE BULB FIELDS In April, the bulb fields begin to bloom. On Chris' birthday we took a drive (with Rick) to see the bulb fields ...