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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

We took down the flag pole so my mother could put her birthday present on the top of it.

Gaanderen

And not long after I hoisted the Finnish flag for Nina, who became 15.

Gaanderen

Birthday cake and singing

Berkel

We went canoeing on the Berkel river

Berkel

Zara was in my canoe

Berkel

Others had a dog at the front. Izzy is the newest member of Linn's family.

Berkel

It wasn't deep everywhere. A rest on a sandbank to cool off the feet

Gaanderen

Playing games

Sinderen

My mother in front of the chapel where my sister got married. We cycled there, it was the first longer bicycle trip for my mum since her operation

Sinderen to Gaanderen

A rest along the way

Schwaebish Hall

My birthday present to Jenni, a cocktail shaker

Schwaebish Hall

For her to make me a drink

Hagen

Jenni had a job interview in Hagen, and it went alright, so we celebrated right after

Doetinchem

3-D street art in Doetinchem

Wageningen

My brother and me visiting old friends

Terborg

My brother leaving for Finland to get his second jab. His wife and daughter had already left earlier, he stayed on a little longer

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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