What a change to live in a town/city where there are never the sound of sirens, or honking or public disturbances of any variety. The days are still except for the horns of the boats, asking for the drawbridge to be lifted – in a timely manner if you will.
Author Archives: The Chronicler
But of Course-flowers in the trunk!
Another Lesson Learned:
Why you don’t leave the wash hanging out in a rain shower. Because? The force of the water hitting the garden tiles – seldom is there grass- throws the dirt from the surface onto whatever is low hanging. Pants, sheets, towels. When the rain stops, one has to then spot clean the dirty spots off …
A Favorite Sight
A grown male, walking down the street with a bouquet of flowers in his hand. Likely he is off to visit someone. It is such a pleasant sight to behold because it is not unusual.
A Novel Concept
A bank with no cash available. Dutch banks do not exchange foreign currency. They do not take in and exchange bills. There are no tellers. There are only ATM machines. Machines for bank customers. Machine for other banks’ customers. If you want change, or smaller bills, they don’t have it. They do have a daily …
Not Again!
t Before I moved to the house I am now in, I was at a small hotel. The room I slept in was a self-contained pond house. Here you see the view from the window on the pond side. This story is while I am there. It is my second night in the cozy antique …
Quiet Mornings
I’m in a city, but there are no early a.m. city sounds. No honking horns, no yelling or noisy cars. There is the occasional truck doing it’s recycling rounds, the whiz of a bicycle, the conversational voices of neighbors through the open window. but all is amazingly still
The First Things:
The first things: favorite foods: real tomatoes, kroepoek, ontbijtkoek, vla, yougart, pate, haring with ui -chopped onions, applestroop, applekanjers, krentenbollen, to name but a few on a surprisingly long list. The first things: burying the American accent on the Dutch language. Even i hear it now! The first things: PLANTS AND FLOWERS: purchase a pot …
When No One Is Watching
That is when you go out and see if you can still ride a bike. 6:30 am on my first Sunday in residence. Picked the Bike ‘key’ off the hook, put the house key in my pocket and went out to the bike. How do you unlock a bike with a key? Took a moment …
My New Best Friend
There is something that draws me to sheep. This one lives on a hill just outside of town. I pass it on my way biking.