Cactus Oasis

G'day Mates,

I pulled myself together and after staying in bed for while due to a big cold, flu or whatever it was I think, hubby and I are ready again for new adventures.


But for now I still have to finish some Dutch stories so here we are; not a most likely Dutch thing but also a surprise to us; Cacti

We had family, Arnold and Trudy, staying with us for a few days and they had hired a little cottage at a farm close to us. They had invited us for two night for dinner and because the weather was terrible we did some cooking on a electrical plate with all small pieces of vegetables, meet and fish in stead of a barbecue.

The distance was only 3 k's so the first night we decided to go by bike.
We had a great time together and we had a lot of laughs as the men had been colleagues in their younger years and shares much memories.

Arnold likes filming very much and he had been to "Cactus Anny" a few year ago which is a cactus oasis in Ruurlo, a small town about 8 k's from us, unfortunately he had lost the film he had made then and so now he wanted to go there again. We hadn't been there before though we had heard of it, but actually we weren't really interested in Cacti.

Much to our surprise we really liked it and even spent a few hours in the oasis.

There also was a little museum about the life style of farmers back in the olden days.

I'm not that old yet, at least I don't feel old, but even I remembered a few things which had to do with school.  Who remembers this??;

Arnold enjoyed his filming and of course I enjoyed taking pictures.

Oeps

You must wonder why you haven't seen much Cacti yet? Well, of the most beautiful pictures of Cacti I made a little film, so watch and enjoy but be warned; you might like them soo much you want to hug them which is highly uncomfortable and not recommended haha!

Enjoy, Movie time;

See ya !

Cheers!

A cry for understanding.

G'day Mates,


We are just "home" and I want to give you an impressing of our flight back to Australia, especially the last bit from Kuala Lumpur to Melbourne after we had 3 great days of loving life and culture in Kuala Lumpur;

OMG what's happening to me, I had a roller coaster of emotions on the plane. Glad to be going back to safe Australia and sad to leave stressed Holland. Every music I hear makes me cry and I don't know why. Tears are rolling down my cheeks.

God this torn between two lovers is getting to be a big deal. I don't think it's the hormones that's too easy. Besides that, I later heard from my Hubby he had have the same emotions.

Maybe its all the good bye's the last few days or even the idea, that deep down we know we need a miracle to stay in Australia.

Every song I hear is a potential song for my own funeral, sounds very heavy but it truly were my thoughts. Djeezzz why am I so occupied with that, I have honestly no idea and no motive. Maybe it's because we lost 3 dear family members just recently and you suddenly realize live is short and can be gone just like that.

Guys I need some time, I can't do happily new stories at the moment (and there are a few), sorry. I'm going to sort out my moods and come back asap. Promised!! Love to all my fans!

Cheers.

Bye Bye Holland, Hello Australia!

G'day Mates,

After 4 months coping with a lot of bad weather but also enjoying quality time with family and friends, we are flying to Kuala Lumpur today and on Sunday we are back in Aussieland.

I worked on a new story but don't have time to finish it, sorry mates, I'll be back as soon as I can.
To not leave you empty handed I herewith give you something to laugh, specially for the Aussies, enjoy;


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_prtbj4MtDU


Bye Bye Holland, Hello Australia!

The Hague, Den Haag ; seat of the Dutch Government

G'day Mates,

Two years ago we've also spent a few days in the Hague which also is the birth place of my hubby Fred, so we have some family there and during the holidays of one of them, we were offered to spent some days in their house. Because the other time I wrote a lot of the city which you can see in my blog here;

http://torn-between-two-lovers.blogspot.nl/2014/08/oh-oh-den-haag.html

I now write a bit more about the area;

With friends we biked to "Hoek van Holland" through the dunes. Hoek van Holland is one of the Ports of which ferries sail to England.

Except for some wind we had great weather and enjoyed our trip very much... 

Here you can see the a ferry, waiting to take off in the afternoon.... 

We brought our lunch and enjoyed sitting at one of the picnic tables.....

Because of the strong wind these kite-surfers having a ball....

After bringing our hired bikes back, we were invited for a great Indian meal.....

(thanks Ann and Karin)

We also spent a day with Fred's brother and because they life close to this nice little spot (Leidschendam), we had a walk over there.....

The town's name has been in use for centuries and refers to the lock in the Vliet, near the historic city of Leiden.

still a lot of yachts sail thru this lock 

Movie time

Typical Dutch;

And with nice weather we of course have to drink something, quality time with our brother/in law and sister in law.....

If you know the Netherlands a bit, you also know that Rotterdam (which is one of the biggest Ports of the world) is close to The Hague and I wanted to see this famous Market Hall which opened on October 1, 2014, by Queen Máxima of the Netherlands;

 Besides the large market hall, the complex houses 228 apartments, 4600 m2 retail space, 1600 m2 of food sector and an underground 4-storey parking garage with a capacity of 1200+ cars

Isn't it beautiful.....

The building has an arch-wise structure like a horseshoe and has a glass facade on both sides, these are made up of smaller glass windows.

All yammie stuff.....(but a bit expensive too)

This yellow sign says; "Don't park/stall bikes here", hilarious.....  

You haven't been in The Hague if you don't go to Scheveningen, its always lovely going there!

Having a drink at the boulevard especially as the sun came out, we left the house in the morning with rain and in the afternoon it was just lovely....

Simonis is a well known fish restaurant and we decided our stomachs would like a nice meal ........  

so we ordered two great dishes, one fish kebab...... 

and a fish and chips, here in Holland they call small pieces of fish; Kibbeling!

and what is dinner without a nice bottle of wine........

Cheers!