A little garden

One of the most beau­ti­ful per­sons that Vic­tor Hugo describes in his book Les Mis­érables, is the Bish­op of Digne. This man spends his whole salary on the poor and the ill, and treats every per­son with­out prej­u­dice. The fol­low­ing pas­sage describes how every night he spends some hours in his gar­den before going to bed. …

Road to the sea

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 …

And it moves us all

In a cou­ple of days we’re going to move out of Gilling­ham. Fred­dy is start­ing his field­work in July, but we can’t stay till then because our ten­an­cy con­tract only allowed us to stay for a year or leave after 6 months. So we chose the sec­ond option. We will be in Hol­land until we …