I feel like I'm in a war zone at the moment, the number of fire crackers going off has increased to every few seconds! I've gotten used to it now though to the point it doesn't scare me anymore and Read More
Archives for December 2007
Machiavelli
Tonight we went to dinner at a friend of Alex's, Ieke and her partner Andre. Ieke is vegetarian and since I'm not really a huge meat eater I really enjoyed the vegetarian meal we had for Read More
Vicki and Robert leave
In the morning once we got up (had a bit of a sleep in after the late night) I spent some time helping Vicki with her website. We were hoping to maybe do our private balance class, but we ended up Read More
Forum people arrive!
Today I finally got the amazing opportunity to meet some long time forum friends. Vicki (Red) and Robert (Sigma) arrived first and I've known them for 4 or 5 years or so. Especially Robert who I've Read More
Annelies
Today was an amazingly huge day. We (tried to) get up early for the 2.5 hour drive down to Zeeland where Annelies lives. Annelies is an old forum friend of mine that came and spent 3 weeks with Read More
Out for a jog
Finally starting to really get over my cold and after all the food and festivies I'm bursting to exercise again. Hopefully I'm not getting too fat from all the good food here? Alex has no full Read More
Christmas Day
Quiet relaxing day for Christmas Day which was nice. Much nicer than previous years I remember which used to involve getting up early, rushing to one set of parents house, over eating, rushing to the Read More
Christmas Eve Dinner
It's a dutch tradition to celebrate Christmas Eve more rather than Christmas Day, so for Christmas Eve we had dinner at Alex's place. Alex's brother and family, sister and his dad all came over for Read More
Madurodam
Today we met up again with Ben and his family and drove the hour and a half trip to Madurodam, which is a tourist part with minature replica's of The Netherlands. During the drive we stopped at Read More
Alex’s brother and family
Last night we went to meet Alex's brother, Ben and his family with his wife, Ineke and kids Sara and Benjamin. It was really wonderful meeting them and I felt so comfortable with them. Ben and Inneka Read More
Frost?
I don't know if you can call this a frost, but by Australian standards it definitely puts a "frost" to shame. When there's dew overnight it freezes on top of the previous dew and it ends up Read More
Dusseldorf
The trip to the Christmas markets in Germany only took about an hour and a half, which by European standards is a long drive........but I think it's cool that you can be in another country in such a Read More
oh great
Now both of us are sick this morning......Alex is coming down with a cold aswell. I must have picked up some foreign virus on the plane. oh well, battle on hopefully. Didn't sleep well last night Read More
Quieter day
I rested for quite a bit of the day today as this cold seems to have gotten worse and it's really taken it out of me. I'd have spurts of energy that would only last barely an hour but yet haven't been Read More
Getting a cold
I haven't been sick in ages, but I guess all the travelling has finally weakened me and I'm starting to get a cold. I hope I don't get too sick! Maybe that's why I'm feeling the cold so bad, cuz Read More