Stads Hotel Boerland Emmen

On Saturday the 8th of August Petra, her mum and I went to Bourtange.
Bourtange is a medievil village that is just on the Dutch/German border and is still inhabited today!
Once a month they have a Medievil market in Bourtange complete with knights, armour, sword fighting, celtic music, archery, cannon fire and re-enactments of famous battles!
This was absolutely fantastic.
As we walked through the main gates we were greeted with cannon fire coming ...

7 Juli, het komt steeds dichter bij. De slaapkamers hebben nu allemaal een koffer staan waarvan verwacht wordt dat die met gepaste kleding gevuld zal worden. Het is mij dan ook verboden om mijn wollen sokken in te pakken. Vreemd hoor.

Sinds februari is er wel het een en ander veranderd, de plannen zijn allemaal wat concreter geworden, paspoorten, visums en vaccinaties zijn allemaal geregeld.Van wat ik heb begrepen blijven wij eerst een aantal weken bij Wim's zus. Haar zoon ...

... and the original moat that surrounded the outer perimeter. There are guard posts and portions of the buildings which have been restored and labeled as well as a tribute area located in the original muster area where the prisoners were counted each day. The tribute is a monument of tiny raised stones, all set out in the shape of Holland to signify the number of people who died from each of the provinces of The Netherlands and each stone had a plaque on ...

Hoe ver zijn we? Vanavond hebben we besloten om de reis naar de eilanden Bali en Lombok eens goed te plannen. Maar hoe zijn we op dit punt terecht gekomen. Ter gelegenheid van Wim en Elly's 35e trouwdag op 13 - Dec. - 2008 is er besloten om het lang besproken plan om naar Indonesië te gaan, uit te voeren. Een mooie gelegenheid natuurlijk. Maar ja, zonder ...

Well peeps.... Blog is created, route is 1/2 planned and we have 14 days, 12hrs, and 10 mins to go! Susie has been reading other peoples blogs and wants to move to Chang Mai already to have a pet tiger cub, ride to work on an elephant and have 2hr massages every day! We shall see hey ! :)

... directly from the heart... sometimes, like a kid when she is not happy about something. I like her :) 14 July was my birthday but my dad baked me a birthday cake one month later!! He said that we haven't celebrated birthday together for 4 years already!! Oh... papa's b-day cake *sob sob*... no other presents can be compared to something made with love...

... dus misschien valt ze wel mee? T is in ieder geval blij dat ze geen kaart hoeft te lezen. Dat kan ze best wel goed hoor, maar ze heeft een bloedhekel aan dat getut met brillen. Zonnebril af, leesbril op, leesbril af, zonnebril op, en zo verder. Maar goed, campinkje is zo leuk dat we in geval van onverhoopt mooi weer misschien nog wel een dagje blijven...

... paper, steel and shiny things Tell them they have more value More then memmories More then experiences Promise them the best that money can buy That thieves will take And time will breake RUN, little lab rat RUN! Run past the grey walls Climb your cage No more time to waste No more time to wait Run, Run away on your own Or stay and run with crowd Run but remember if you don't run on your own The only time You are taken out of that cage Is when your dead

... for more than 9 years already!! Uhhmmm, well better late then never?! Great to meet up again! Even played an old Dutch game, Sjoelen! After a few hours it's time to go to my cousins home as I would like to meet her boys before they have to go to bed. We end up talking together until late in the night. A lot of catching up to do ...

Hello people, I will save you the details of my driver's licence 'drama', but decided to start my journey without it.... Only option was to go to the RDW office in Veendam to see if they had it ready there, otherwise my brother would sent it to Finland for me later. Time was ticking away and I was becoming a very stressed gray-haired bunny, so this was the best option for me. So a day ...