Posted in food, holidays, news, tagged archaeology, cooking, expats, graves, holidays, IJsselstein, NaBloPoMo, news, photos, romans, Thanksgiving, Utrecht on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in which Americans around the world celebrate Thanksgiving — a case of expats/immigrants trying to make friends with the natives of their new homeland — I thought I’d mention some news about some early expats here in the Utrecht region. It seems that some untouched Roman graves have been found near IJsselstein, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged holidays, NaBloPoMo, photos, Sinterklaas, Zwarte Piet on November 14, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Sinterklaas arrived in the Netherlands from Spain today. We headed over to see his arrival, along with seemingly half the population of Utrecht. He’s a popular man with screaming fans.
Zwarte Piet was also in attendance, seemingly in record numbers. There were boatloads of them! Maybe Spain’s unemployment numbers will drop after this month!
Posted in cultural, holidays, tagged holidays, NaBloPoMo, neighborhood, St. Maarten, treats on November 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Oh dear. Today is St. Martin’s Day. It’s times like this that curtains would be useful. Today is the day that kids in some areas go around house to house singing songs and receiving treats. Sort of like Halloween, but not as ghoulish or costume-y. That said, we don’t have any treats to give out.
Fortunately, [...]
Posted in holidays, tagged customs, holidays, Koninginnedag, orange, oranje, photos, Queen's Day, traditions, World Blog Surf Day on October 30, 2009 | 19 Comments »
The theme of this third annual World Blog Surf Day is Holidays and Celebrations, in which expats from around the world write on the same theme, exploring some of the new holidays and traditions they (we) have been exposed to in our new countries. At first I was a bit lost on what to write [...]
Posted in holidays, tagged holidays, photos on July 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Happy Independence Day to all my fellow Americans, no matter where you’re living.
OK, I had to add this. It’s beautiful!
Posted in food, holidays, tagged food, holidays, shopping on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There I was today, all ready to go to Pippos to buy some paint to finish up a project I’m working on in the bedroom. All I had to do was take Pippo out first. As we were walking around, I couldn’t help but notice how quiet it was, despite being almost 10 a.m. Surprisingly [...]
Posted in cultural, entertainment, holidays, tagged fireworks, holidays on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!
I hope everyone spent a pleasant evening saying goodbye to 2008 and welcoming 2009. So far, the year is going very well. Yesterday was a quiet, enjoyable day of doing little, finished off by a lucky meal of pork chops, hoppin’ john and sproutjes (I think they have collards or some sort of greens [...]
Posted in holidays, tagged food, friends, hol, holidays on December 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The lasagna is made and ready to be cooked. The house is cleaned and the champagne is chilling. The firecrackers/fireworks have been going off all day — all week, really — and I’m sure at midnight it will be incredibly loud and noisy. We’ll be contributing to the noise, as we’re spending the evening at [...]
Posted in holidays, neighborhood, pets, shopping, tagged holidays, horse, oudegracht, photos, unusual on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m glad I thought to take the camera with me today when we went out to run some errands. Despite the weather being cold and grey, I thought I might be able to get some interesting shots. Most of the shots do look cold and grey, but my persistence paid off when we were crossing [...]
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