Trying To Explain Christmas Crackers To The Dutch
“A Christmas what?” “A Christmas Cracker.” It was a few days before Christmas on a cold evening in the North of Holland and I was desperately trying to explain the very English tradition of...
Yearly Archive: 2012
Expat’s Blog Award
Great news! Thanks to your help this blog has won an award from expatsblogs.com I am extremely happy and would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped out by submitting...
Sinterklaas Replied To My Letter
When I opened our letter box and saw the envelope I instantly knew what it was. An official reply to my letter from Sinterklaas himself! An actual letter from the Sint uit Spanje! My...
Writing A Letter to Sinterklaas
In order to get the official answer to a few of the questions I have pondered in previous posts I did this… Do you think he will answer? I didn’t specifically mentioned that I...
Life on Mars
This week NASA revealed that the Mars Rover ‘Curiosity’ has discovered something big. Something huge! Something for the history books! Something that will blow our minds!… But they are are not telling us what...
