Tilburg, The Netherlands - 31st August 2008
By: Marjolein
Hello!
Today we visited the Bookmarket of Tilburg! This is the biggest bookmarket of the South of The Netherlands.
Marjolein bought these books:
It's: Angels & Demons from Dan Brown, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and a book called 'Bedwelmd' from Lulu Wang.
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Posted Sep 2, 2008, 10:24 pm
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's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands - 14th September 2008
By: Marjolein
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Posted Sep 14, 2008, 6:20 pm Last edited Sep 14, 2008, 6:22 pm by Marjolein
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's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands - 14th September 2008
By: Marjolein
In the night we went to a comedy club. This was in the Verkadefabriek in 's-Hertogenbosch. The Verkadefabriek is a former factory of the brand Verkade, who make cookies! Too bad they didn't had any more cookies in the factory hihi.
The stand-up comedyshow was very cool! Altough I didn't know the comedians, they where very funny. Yes, I am learning a lot of Dutch on this Dutch trail!
Across the road of the Verkadefabriek was yet another former factory. This is a sigaretfactory of Willem II.
This factory is also a place for theater, music and other performances now.
Doeg doeg (bye bye) Count
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Posted Sep 15, 2008, 11:49 am Last edited Sep 15, 2008, 11:52 am by Marjolein
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Paterswolde, The Netherlands - 21st September 2008
By: Marjolein
Hello,
I went to the party of Marjolein's grandparents today! They are married for 55 years! Wow that is a very long time!! I got a very nice invitation just for me! We ate cake and drank coffe and after that made a boottrip, on the Paterswoldsemeer. That's a lake near Groningen.
After this we ate lots of food! Very, very nice food! And that wasn't all: they had cake! Mmmmm it was very nice!
Count
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Posted Sep 24, 2008, 9:55 pm
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Leidschendam, The Netherlands - 15th October 2008
By: Charda
Today I arrived at our new hosts' place. It wasn't such a long trip, but I'm glad to be out of the box!
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Posted Oct 23, 2008, 8:30 pm
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Leidschendam, The Netherlands - 26th October 2008
By: Charda
This morning we had a really nice breakfast with fresh croissants. We baked them off ourselves and it smelled delicious!
Look at the picture of the windmills on the cheese package. That looks pretty Dutch, right
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Posted Oct 26, 2008, 5:45 pm
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Leidschendam, The Netherlands - 3rd November 2008
By: Charda
Today we had a very special lunch. We ate a 'kroket'! It's a Dutch snack. This is the description from Wikipedia: A croquette is a small fried roll containing mashed potatoes, minced meat, shellfish or vegetables, often encased in breadcrumbs. The croquette is usually shaped into a cylinder or disk, and then deep-fried. The Dutch version is filled with ragout.
It tasted very good!
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Posted Nov 16, 2008, 10:02 pm
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Leidschendam, The Netherlands - 7th November 2008
By: Charda
Today Amelie arrived at our place! Welcome to our little gathering here!
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Posted Nov 16, 2008, 10:12 pm
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Leidschendam, The Netherlands - 16th November 2008
By: Charda
They have this really strange tradition here in the Netherlands. It's called 'Sinterklaas'. It's a bit like Christmas with the Santa Claus, but not exactly. This is what Wikipedia says about Sinterklaas:
The Sinterklaas feast celebrates the name day of Saint Nicholas (280-342), patron saint of children. Saint Nicholas was a Greek bishop of Myra in present-day Turkey and became the patron saint of children based on various legends that include resurrecting children from death and saving them from prostitution.
Sinterklaas has a long white beard, wears a red bishop's dress and red mitre (bishop's hat), and holds a crosier, a long gold coloured staff with a fancy curled top. Sinterklaas carries a big book with all the children's names in it, which states whether they have been naughty or nice in the past year. Sinterklaas is assisted by many mischievous helpers with black faces and colourful outfits, modelled after 16th century Spanish clothing. These helpers are called Zwarte Pieten (Black Petes) in Dutch (see below for names in other languages). During the Middle Ages, Zwarte Piet was a name for the devil.[citation needed] Having triumphed over evil, it was said that on Saint Nicholas' eve, the devil was shackled and made his slave. Although the character of Black Pete later came to acquire racial connotations, his origins were in the devil figure. Sinterklaas traditionally arrives each year in November (usually on Saturday) by steamboat from Spain, and is then paraded through the streets, welcomed by cheering and singing children. Invariably, this event is broadcast live on national television in the Netherlands and Belgium. His Zwarte Piet helpers throw candy and small, round ginger bread-like cookies, kruidnoten or pepernoten, into the crowd. The children welcome him by singing traditional Sinterklaas songs.
And last Saturday he arrived in the Netherlands! He arrived in the town of Almere. We watched some of it online. This is Sinterklaas still on the boat:
And this is him with the 'Hoofdpiet':
It feels like a real celebration here!
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Posted Nov 16, 2008, 10:25 pm
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