The Monday after Sinterklaas my uncle, Jur, offered to take us out for the day. I told him I wanted to see a lock. So he drove us out to the Grave Lock, which is in a town called Grave…its not a Grave.
It was awesome watching the water go up and down delivering boats from [...]
Eeek so behind, I doubt I will ever catch up on all this blogging. But I will try!
So… Sinterklaas!
We had Sinterklaas with my Uncle, Aunt and cousins, Jur, Marleen, Vince and Mick. It was a really lovely weekend.
Our first night we had homemade Pizza
Cooked in Jur and Marleen’s sexy new oven
Then we spent the rest [...]
One night we were sitting at Beer’s house with Katherine and decided… lets go Belgium tomorrow. We chose Antwerp. Within an hour we had booked trains and accommodation. Early the next morning we were on the train to Belgium. One and a half hours later we were there.
We arrived at the beautiful Antwerp station and walked [...]
Yikes! I am so behind in my blogging (how unusual, I know).
Anyway… where were we?
While we were still in Den Haag, Beer went to Kenya for a week. Katherine, our friend from high school, who had just moved to London came to visit us for a while. She stayed with us at Beer’s house.
Her first [...]
I interrupt the usual blogging for the traditionally late, Decates family Christmas card.
We all embarked on new adventures this year. Jacob started university in Canberra where he met his lovely girlfriend Geraldine. Julia and her brand new husband Lindsay spent most of the year travelling around Europe. (Read all about their adventures on this [...]
Lindsay and I spent some days at Scheveningen.
We spent a few evenings walking on the beach
It was really cold.
So cold in fact that we found some ice bergs.
We spotted a jelly fish. Thats how cold it was even the jelly fish turned blue.
It was very beautiful despite the cold.
And during the day the sunshine [...]
While Lindsay was in Ghent, I stayed in Oss with Elke.
My first night back in Holland Oma and Opa took us out to a lovely posh restaurant in Oss.
Again Oma was the only one to behave like a lady.
Opa and Elke ordered Dam Blanche for dessert.
Dame Blanche is vanilla ice cream with whipped cream [...]
While we were in Barcelona, an old classmate of ours emailed, inviting us to visit her in Madrid. So we thought, why not? The chance to see someone from home and speak Australian English at a normal pace, e.g. super fast (we both speak really slow now so that people can understand us).
We caught our [...]
