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 …
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How do You Choose?
Your PCP- primary care physician. You ask for recommendations from people you have met and respect their opinion, you look the doctors addresses up google maps… and then you choose the one you can reach by bicycle. Having no car and imaging that one day i might not be well, a long bike ride when …
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 …
My Writers Group
Writing, the proverbial pen-to-paper sort -though my preference is fingers-to-keyboard- is a way to clear my head and organize my thoughts. In my opinion, it is like music, universally accepted and a group activity. In the local paper I read that there is a writer’s group that meets once-a-month; at the end of the blurb …
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 …
F to C
When looking at the wall thermometer, 19 does not say anything to me. 66.2 does. Have to learn to think in C’s all o er again.
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.
Two Moves & Now a Third
Twice I have made concerted effort to move to a water view, preferably the ocean. Twice I have ended up in the mountains. But third time is a charm. A water view. My new home.