Each time when I am in the Netherlands, I visit Bunschoten, the village where my father was born. The history of this village, situated in the central part of Holland, dates back to the 12th century. Bunschoten was a village of well-off farmers, while the nearby village of Spakenburg flourished by fishing and trading. Its […]
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LIFE IN CUBA: CHANGE COMES SLOWLY
When we started our round trip through Cuba, I was very curious. Would I really find a communist, poor and backward country or has life changed for the Cuban people since Raoul Castro has taken over the power from his brother Fidel? In the last few years, the situation in Cuba has become complicated. […]
ON CUBA’S ROADS
We are just back from a round trip in Cuba by car. What a country! Full of culture, music, history and passion, full of contradictions and not easy to understand. With endless sugar cane and tobacco fields, tropical jungles, beautiful mountains and long white sandy beaches. With 1950s nostalgia and monuments of Fidel Castro’s revolution. […]
PRESERVE YOUR TRADITIONAL VALUES!
Guest blog by Paul Wennekes It’s stormy in the Netherlands. Foreigners who have settled there are taking over the helm. They are no longer foreigners, as they have got the title ‘co-nationals’. That’s okay, isn’t it? Yes! They have got the same rights. But … they want more! They want to transform Holland into […]
THE MAGIC OF ROME
It is a great experience to spend a long weekend in Rome, where you can really find it all: impressive churches, ancient ruins, powerful monuments, but also an excellent cuisine and attractive fashion shops. Paul and I had four days available and wanted to get a complete picture of the city, but of course, we […]
EASTER IN HOLLAND
This year I had the opportunity to spend Easter in Holland, my home country. Of course, I did not know that it would be the coldest Easter since one hundred years! An icy east wind and temperatures below zero made it almost impossible to go out. The lakes and canals were covered with ice and […]
AUSTRALIA – LAKE MUNGO, A JOURNEY BACK IN TIME
One of the most impressive tours we made on our journey through Australia was, no doubt, the guided tour to Lake Mungo, which was listed as a World Heritage site back in 1981 and is now documented as one of the oldest places for human occupation dating back to Aboriginal life from around 60,000 […]
AUSTRALIA – A CRUISE TO LADY MUSGRAVE ISLAND
Spending Christmas on a day cruise to Lady Musgrave Island seemed to be a crazy idea, but it turned out to be a unique experience. We found accommodation in a big holiday park in the Town of Seventeen Seventy, the place where Captain Cook landed for the first time in Queensland in 1770. This is […]
SMOKING IN AUSTRALIA
In the European Union, but also in Montenegro, discussions are going on about new anti-smoking measures, as it has definitely been established that smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable death and disease. Proposals have been presented to sell cigarettes in packets covered with horrible pictures showing the consequences that smoking may cause, […]
AUSTRALIA – A DAY CRUISE TO THE WHITSUNDAY ISLANDS
Traveling along the east coast of Australia in December means enjoying the sun, the white sandy beaches and the warm water of the Coral Sea. A very special place to experience all this is the Whitsunday islands, a group of 74 islands that lie off the coast of Queensland and form part of the Great […]