On the Blauwe Bever with Gonny, Marie-Jose, Renee, Sonya, Toby and Reinout on top.
Gonny reading a copy of Alledaags, Toby's book. She has recovered very well. She will start working fulltime after the summer holiday.
Trudy and Sonya in Trudy and Thijs' erf (garden)
Toby and Thijs' summer hutspot met gehaktbal. Heel lekker!
This weekend Toby and I went to visit Trudy and Thijs in Rhenen. It's high summer in the Netherlands at the moment and Trudy and Thij's house is surrounded by wildflowers, it's so pretty! They have completed renovated their house, so it is very different to when I visited with John in 2002.
Thijs volunteers on board "The Blue Beaver", a boat which takes educational excursions down the beautiful northern shore of the Lower Rhine. Renee and his family joined us and we took a lovely tour through a local conservation project: 1500 acres of riverbank that has been allowed to revert to it's orginal state. Rare plants and animals such as otters, beavers, black storks, dragonflies and fish live here.
Thijs also made us all dinner- a very dutch meal of hutspot- mashed potatoes and carrots and onion, which was so yum. In the evening we played poker and Toby won! Not a lot of money, but a lot of fun.
On Sunday we relaxed in the garden, but poor Toby had to leave to go to work! Trudy showed me her little studio and Thijs showed me his honey house, where he keeps his hives. We called Tauranga and spoke with Wim and Fonsa, which was very nice.
Trudy and Thijs sends their greetings to everyone!
Thijs also made us all dinner- a very dutch meal of hutspot- mashed potatoes and carrots and onion, which was so yum. In the evening we played poker and Toby won! Not a lot of money, but a lot of fun.
On Sunday we relaxed in the garden, but poor Toby had to leave to go to work! Trudy showed me her little studio and Thijs showed me his honey house, where he keeps his hives. We called Tauranga and spoke with Wim and Fonsa, which was very nice.
Trudy and Thijs sends their greetings to everyone!
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