A special edition, Merry Christmas!

G day mates,

As you know we are in Bali at the moment and I realised that I forgot to tell you why we are here; on the 13th of December we had our 30st wedding anniversary, nowadays worth celebrating!! Isn't it??


But now something else; it's very weird from this location, in this Bali heat to introduce you to next issue but, picture this;

I found a movie back, which I made long time ago, on one of our DVD's. I've been struggling to get it on the computer and then to YouTube because I think it's worth sharing with you, especially for people who know Holland and also because of the winter time in Holland and festive season.

This was our last winter in the Netherlands, 7 years ago. We were going to emigrate to Australia and I wanted to remember how cold the winters could be in Holland because that was one of the reasons we wanted to emigrate. But actually the beauty came over me as a warm feeling and so I didn't feel any cold when I walked from Steenderen, were we lived then, to Brummen on the other side of the IJssel. Approximately 6 kilometre in this icy, snowy, cold weather, but I loved every inch of it!!

Welcome to the Winter Wonderland;

Well I hope you found it as much as pretty as I did and still do. 

From Bali we wish you;

See ya next year with the first story of the year; Bali!

Cheers!

(don't drink too much)

Never a dull moment

G'day Mates,

Sorry it took a while before I came back, the problem was and still is a bit, I wasn't too well (had a bad cold) and felt miserable for more then a week so had no mood to do anything. That also resulted in having no exciting new story, also because I didn't made much pictures.

BUT, you know me, I can always pull out something;

I told you we (actually Fred) were busy preparing for the big trip and before my cold I made a few pictures of that;

Here we brought our little house on wheels to the Simpsons boys (a good caravan repairer) in Dandenong....

and left it there.......

they put in a second battery under my seat so now we should have enough power to stay somewhere, f.i. in the bush or free camping, for a few days....

because of that second battery, we lost a lot space under my seat for storing so we have to find that elsewhere, most probably under the bed....

Not that this was all under that seat haha!

No, we had to unpack the caravan so Fred has enough space to fiddle around......

(sorry Lida about the mess, but no worries, it will be all gone before you come home!)

also in the caravan there is a mess......

BUT "we" will get there.......

In the mean time, when Fred is working hard, I'm still trying to get off the kilo's I gained during our holidays to Holland and I can tell you, it doesn't work, isn't it sad?  

OK guys, you must be wondering why I called this story; "Never a dull moment"??

I tell you why;

Friday the 12th, WE WILL FLY TO BALI, YEEEEHH!!

So, plans has changed again, not the West YET, see ya in Bali!

Cheers!