Fred­dy and I have seen a lot of The Nether­lands dur­ing the past weeks. Espe­cial­ly Fred­dy has been sail­ing on Dutch waters. One thing he did was a sail­ing trip of sev­er­al days on the IJs­selmeer and through Ams­ter­dam. I joined him dur­ing one day, that turned out to be the only sun­ny day of that trip ;-). The dark and heavy rain­clouds were a nice view.

Besides enjoy­ing the water we are also work­ing at times. We just got our visa for Kenya and Mada­gas­car. To get them, we had to trav­el to yet anoth­er part of the Nether­lands, The Hague and Rotterdam. 

Trav­el­ling by train and see­ing these flat land­scapes with cows, grass and flow­ers — I real­ly feel at home in this coun­try. Even when pol­i­tics are con­sid­ered, there is still a strong sense of inclu­sive pol­i­cy and tol­er­ance. In Schevenin­gen we saw how the gov­ern­ment opened a road to the sea that is acces­si­ble for wheel­chairs. Things like this, accep­tance and cel­e­bra­tion of vari­ety makes me hap­py to be Dutch.

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