Tag: Monique
Soestduinen & Amersfoort
by Tsemer on Jan.04, 2010, under The Netherlands
First of all – some pronunciation: “oe” in Dutch is roughly equivalent to “oo” in English; “ui” is closest to “ow” (although not quite it); and “oo” is just a long “o”. Hence: Soostdownen & Amersfort. Well, kinda 
.
Anyway, just wanted to share some pics of our trip with MoMesh to meet Carola & Erik-Jan aka EJ (Dutch pronunciation: Ey Yay 
) in Amersfoort, their current place of residence, and our walk in the Soestduinen park. For the curious fellas – find out what duinen means here. We saw their super cute house, almost leaning over the old city walls – gonna have us one like that someday, you’ll see – and had lunch in the cute town center. Also passed by the second highest cathedral in the Netherlands, but alas, no pics there. Oh well.
Gelukkig Nieuw Jaar!
by Cinnie on Jan.01, 2010, under The Netherlands
So first of all… a very happy new year to everyone!! Hope all of you had a smashing new year’s celebration and a good start of the new year..
We really had a great party – thanks Pascale and Bart! With way-way-way too much (and delicious) food and tons of fireworks. It was so much fun to see the whole Kramer-family get utterly excited over lighting their own fireworks, that I even forgot my fear of it from time to time. You’ll find below some pics of them playing with the firecrackers, and I guess the smile on Paulien’s face says it all .
MoMesh
by Tsemer on Dec.29, 2009, under The Netherlands
The concert we went to was really cool.
A talented guy called Bob Zimmerman (no, a different one), arranged lots of chansons for a singer and an orchestra. The singer was a bit cocky, but nonetheless a good singer with quite a pleasant capacity for expression. The orchestra was powerful and impressive, and the conductor seemed to have a splendid time, all wrapped up in the music. The hall was the Philharmonie of Haarlem, a beautiful concert hall just walking distance from Bart & Pascale’s house. And there was even the Israeli connection: “Après le Froid“, a rearranged and translated version for the song “After the Cold” of Yossi Banai .
All in all, we had a great time!
The two following days and nights were devoted to Monique and Ramesh, our splendidly insane inter-cultural friends. Pauli & Nic. (this is not a typo, he writes his name with a dot) dropped us off at their house in Amsterdam, and within an instant we were in gameland. You see, they love games. As do we. Finally! MUHAHAHA!
