Blogs from South Holland, Netherlands, Europe - page 24

Mother and baby doing fine - not so sure about father! Rhys Finn Solis Blair was born about ten minutes after we made it to the hospital, but home now and in repose, first bath!... read more

Hey everyone! These past few days have been full of wonderful small towns and checking out some great museums. The history that surrounds you in this place is amazing as does all of Europe. I'm very much looking forward to visiting Belgium this week. Anyway, so what did I do? I've been pretty lucky these past few days as the sun has been shining, it's certainly been holding in the crisp 20s and 30s but nonetheless, I can't complain as it has only rained once since I've been here. So here's what I've done so far... On Thursday, I headed out to visit the center of the city by taking a walk to one of the museums called the Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, it holds 3 Johannes Vermeer paintings. He's one of the many famous Dutch ... read more

Hello friends, Thinking of everyone and knowing everyone may be wondering if bump "rice" is every going to present themselves?! Just went to the docs this past Friday and all is well with bump and mama. We have our next visit this Friday provided labour doesn't begin prior to that. It's half term for Ava this week so as it's a Monday and she has a touch of the cold we are staying indoors for the most part, crafting, coloring and dancing about the living room and select program viewing. I've been doing a bit of reading this last trimester which is great mainly because it feels like such a long time since I've had the energy or time to do so. If you have any reccommended reading please let me know. For the most part ... read more

Rotterdam... read more

As the yellow double deck train that we’re on leaves the tunnel from Amsterdam Schipol, we peer out the window to see about fifteen centimetres of snow covering the entire countryside. All the ponds, drains, and most canals have frozen over and as the train heads south we spot forlorn looking ducks wandering across the frozen waterways looking like kids who’ve had all their toys taken away. At Rotterdam, Sally and Andrew are on the platform to welcome us to their new city and we follow them to their new apartment. In true northern hemisphere style, they’ve got a real six-foot high pine Christmas tree decorated with fairy lights and intricate glass baubles. Cool... how Christmasy... After dumping our luggage and a quick cup of tea, we figure that, seeing as it’s our first day of ... read more