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November 5th 2021

Published: November 5th 2021

I just discovered it's been slightly more then a year (2 days to be exact), that I wrote my last blog. Embarrassing! It also means I haven't really travelled for two years, not counting my visits to Germany. And that Covid-19 is still a thing. So this is another Intermezzo blog, which is strange. An Intermezzo blog, following on a year old Intermezzo blog! But these are weird times we are living i... Read Full Entry

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Gaanderen

Happy Birthday!

Gaanderen

She got a new golden flag-top, because the old one was wearing

Gaanderen

Flower bed outside our living room

Gaanderen

Pretty

Gaanderen

Making rhubarb juice from our rhubarb

Doetinchem

My first dose!

Schwaebish Hall

Late spring fruit and drinks

Schwaebish Hall

A drink and a kiss, what more can a man ask for

Tubingen

We visited the town Jenni once studied in

Tubingen

Cafe in Tubingen

Tubingen

View from the castle

Gaanderen

And then it was summer and time for the family reunion

Gaanderen

An argument during croquet, did the man hit the stick with his ball or not? Everybody is looking

Gaanderen

My sister had problems aiming, so she got some help

Gaanderen

Jan making a set of Molke, which is a Finnish game

Gaanderen

You need to get to 50 (exactly), each log has a number on it, if you down it, you get those points, if you down two, you get two points, not the points on the log, if you hit nothing three times you are out. It's more difficult than it sounds

Gaanderen

It kept us entertained for weeks

Gaanderen

But there was also work to be done, I decided to finally take down the old hut that my dad built for us when we were young. It was slowly falling apart.

Gaanderen

And potholes in the road had to be filled. I made sure my brother did a good job!

Gaanderen

Also some dead trees needed to be taken down

Gaanderen

Macho, macho man!

6th November 2021

Home and Away
Bob Carlsen

You had a productive Intermezzo...
and I await your next blog about traveling with Jenni.

6th November 2021

His Dudeness
Ralf Kreuze

There is always something to do on the countryside
That's been my luck, I guess, during these Covid times.

7th November 2021

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

Only the lonely no more?
You sound and look like Covid has rested the travelling bones so the old life is breathing happy visions of the new, Ralf. Life can be like that. Looking forward to how this eventuates in your coming blogs. Shortly before Covid hit, a Dutchman who our daughter met in Byron Bay 5 years ago and has been in an international relationship with her, emigrated to Australia to be with her. Covid has prevented us visiting or being visited by his large Dutch family but Denise is getting expert at cooking some cracker Dutch delicacies...and I'm wandering around with an Amsterdam jacket covering my chest. Will His Dudeness be a lone traveller no more? As we all know the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42. What is your Answer to the Ultimate Question? Sorry if this is too deep!

7th November 2021

His Dudeness
Ralf Kreuze

Answer to the ultimate question?
42 was a pretty good guess at the time, but it's actually slightly higher than that. They rounded it down, which works most of the time, but not always. The true answer lies behind the decimal points... As for my lonely wanderings, it also lies behind the decimal points. I will still be travelling on my own at times, and with Jenni at other times, and no doubt with my mum at yet other times, and with friends at... Well, you get the drift. I hope I have answered your question satisfactory, but I probably haven't and that is also life!

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