Heading North for even more romance, day 2

After 3. am I couldn’t sleep any more. My sleeping pill apparently didn’t help very much. At 6.15 I get dressed and walk to a window in a cafe. I knit and listen to an audiobook while watching the horizon. I can see lights and grey hills. In an hour its fully light, a beautiful coastline is [...]

Heading north for even more romance, day 1

A blog from Alba (Scotland)! Next to me, Klaas will be writing as well (in italic text). 22/04/2012 Roll on, roll off After several months of counting down, today’s D-Day! Or better yet, S(cotland)-day. At about 11 AM Sophie and I head off for about 100 miles from her home to the boat. The night [...]

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,600 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to [...]

Musical Past, High School

I have a memory of being on holiday in France. Me and my mom where driving through the mountains – sunset – and singing along with some good music. This is: Hello Josephine – Fats Domino. It is one of the favorite songs of my dad. He also like to sing along, but he has no rhythm  .