We were many. We were men, women and children. We had a barbecue thanks to the nice women who organised. The sun was shining, the grass was green and soft, the food was plentiful. And I acquired...

Look at me! Raha Diva… It was so much fun to knit the Raha Scarf (Ravelry link) and it feels lovely around my neck. I knitted it from mere silk. It’s a pattern from Nancy Bush’s...

Everybody (little bit exaggerated) in Holland is complaining about the Eurovision Songfestival being an East European Songfestival, but I love it… This is my absolute topper: watch the...

Tomorrow I’ll be off for work to Dubrovnik, Croatia, after a week full of emotional peeks. I really cried in the darkness of the Amsterdam Opera House: La Traviata. Such a beautiful...

Today it is exactly 400 years ago that Henry Hudson left Amsterdam to find a faster ‘road’ to Asia and eventually found an island that was called Manna Hatta – many hills....

If I ever win the lottery, I would buy time… new approach… photo, short text. Tell me if it works (well, it doesn’t, so it seems – troubles with the lay out). This is the...