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Published: August 6th 2007
It had been planned that we stay with Alicia's family in the Netherlands for 8 nights. We slept at Diny's house and spent most days with Tante Ali and Oom Joost. Tante Ali and Oom Joost are Alicia's dad's auntie and uncle and Diny is their daughter, which makes her Alicia's dad's cousin. And following on from the equation, this makes Diny Alicia's 2nd cousin (which you probably could have worked out for yourself!). Diny has 2 children - Alice and Wim. Alice is about a year younger than us and was away at university for most of our stay with them, but we eventually got to meet her the weekend before we left for Bremen. Wim, however was at home for our entire stay. He is 17 years old and could speak very good english (as could the whole family) which was lucky for us.
It was very kind of them to have us stay, as we had never actually met them before.
Tante Ali and Oom Joost took us on a tour around their home provence and Diny came along on occasion.We also spent time with Alice and Wim when we went to see a movie with them and
to watch a soccer match.
We spent 1 day at the Keukenhof, which is a dutch tulip festival, and another day exploring Amsterdam.
It was lovely for Alicia to get to know her extended international family and to get a taste of 'real' dutch life.
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