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People and Places (2000)
October 2000.
We have
just returned from some Autumn sun catching on Mallorca.
We were fortunate enough (or just unfortunate, it's
just a matter of how you look at it) to only
experience a little bit of what the Spanish call "La Gota Frķa",
("The Cold Drop"), a weatherphenomena that
repeats itself on a average of once every four years.
And although its name suggests otherwise, during La
Gota Frķa it isn't cold, but
it's very, *very* wet. And once again La Gota Frķa
brought a whole lot of rain,
so much rain that it caused huge flooding in and
around especially Murcia and Tarragona with eight
casualties as a sad result. It didn't rain that much though
on Mallorca, and the rain that fell was as usual more than
welcome. 
The small bit of La Gota Frķa we experienced, consisted merely
of not too
many clouds where some sunshine could come through and some heavy
rainfall at night. But as they say, all rain that falls at night,
won't fall the following day and the
days the sun didn't shine in abundance, we rented some bicycles
to tour around a bit. And that really is something different than
walking or driving around in a car,
you can see a lot more than from a car and it's not a tiring as
walking.
It is really great to have the opportunity to break away from the
daily routines and have a week of peace and quiet and relaxation,
enjoying the sun ...
September 2000.
The soccer
season has started again. The training started in August,
but now the first matches are over and done with as well.
Kevin is now a C2-player, under the capable leadership of Rob van
Noort and Peter van de Ploeg. Lots of luck and have fun, guys!
My thanks to Machiel van Veen, the webmaster of the homepage
of
BlauwZwart, for his
permission to use the photograph on the right
on my homepage. And also I want to congratulate him with the new
and improved BlauwZwart site and wish him all the best. The site
really looks great now, Machiel!
On the photograph, standing from left to right: Kevin, Philip,
Wouter, Lesley (keeper), Daan, Marcel and Hamza.
Sitting, from left to right: Dennis, Martijn, Thijs, Jeroen and
Oliver.
August 17, 2000
Unfortunately
vacation time is over and due to the weather I haven't been able
to make a lot of photographs. But we did have a marvelous time
anyhow, a bit different than usual, and we are all rested and
relaxed again. But because of the rather low temperatures I was
on time this year to make some photographs of the gorgeous fiels
of sunflowers. Previous years because of the high temperatures
they would already be almost out of bloom. And the lower
temperatures sure made it easy to fall asleep at night, we've
experienced worse!
And what
should you do when the weather isn't cooperative to let you
sunbathe on the beach? Right, you go shopping, sit on
a terrace, and ofcourse go out to
diner at night. Having a glass of wine, enjoying nice
company... Just having a great
time! And as you can see on this photograph that's just
what we have been doing.
This photograph is taken in one of our favourite
restaurants, La Pasta (where they
serve delicious pizza and pasta), we are having dinner
here with our friends
George and Inge, and Bart and Marijke and the children.
Bart and Marijke will
move to Nigeria at the end of September, where he has to
work for "our" Royal
Shell. Good luck there, guys, and take care! We will keep
in touch through e-mail.
May 26, 2000
I just came back from my trip to New York City, where I went
together with Petra not only to meet my halfsister Marianne and
her son Chris, but also to get a little taste of the United
States of America. And tasting we did, not only literally but in
a figurative way too ofcourse! For 5 days we have been looking
our eyes out. On foot and by "hop-on/hop-off"
trolleybus did we explore Manhattan. Ofcourse we took the ferry
to the Statue of Liberty and to Ellis Island, and from there we
had a terrific view of the skyline of New York. We also went to
the102nd floor of the Empire State Building to get a good view of
New York from above. Unfortunately it was very cloudy so the view
wasn't that great, but all the more reason to go back to New York
to do it again but than with better weatherconditions.
We went to Times Square, looked at the enormous amount of
billboards hanging on all of the buildings. Ofcourse we had to
shop, you can't return home without presents for the family, can
you? So we had to do Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Virgin Records
Megastore (a realy unbelievable megastore full of 
CD's, DVD's, video's etc.), 
the Warner Bros. store, the
fantastic toystore of FAO Schwartz (we have never seen so many
toys and huge stuffed animals in our lives), the NBC studiostore
and lots and lots of shops more. We had to taste literally aswell
and we were amazed about the enormous amounts of food they serve
you here: "flowervases" full of cola, wagonwheelsize
pizza's, hamburgers as high as skyscrapers.... Unbelievable that
people can eat such huge portions. It made quite clear though why
so many American people are fat. Petra and I haven't gained any
weight the past 5 days. Because of the enormous distances you
have to walk in this big city, we only lost weight! Shouldn't we
have declared this at customs when we entered the States? *grin*
May 9, 2000
The soccer season has almost finished. That is why on this
page I want to say
a warm thank-you to Cees van Stigt and Adri van Vliet. They
trained and supported Kevin and his soccerteam at the soccerclub
of BlauwZwart for two years with love and care.
Cees and Adri, you are the greatest, I am very fond of the way
the two of you stood by our boys through thick and thin, you
celebrated their victories with them, you were there to comfort
them when they had lost and when they were injured you were there
to ease the pain. Thank you for two great soccer seasons and I
wish the two of you lots of succes next season with the new team!
I will miss you, guys!
My favourite
place on earth is something I really should put on this page.
And I am *not* gonna tell you where
you can find it in the best vacation
land of Europe, Spain *smile*.
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