A large bird flies into my airspace. Of course, it’s not “my” airspace, it doesn’t belong to anyone or to everyone, depending on how you see it, but I happen to walk under it, and if the bird hadn’t been so noisy, it would never have been mentioned anyway. But he is, he screams and […]
Emotionally neglected guitar Read More »
“Yeyes … look, there is someone hiding behind that parasol …” I hear a voice at the top of the stairs, and when I secretly peek in that direction from behind the parasol, I see a man with a little beard, who looks vaguely familiar. Son Broes and I were just discussing the to-do-list Another
To-do-list gets kicked out when a volunteer hits the stairs Read More »
“Vaca na mesa! Or how do you say that?” Madelon shouts cheerfully, while I laugh. “Now you put a cow on the table, my dear” I reply, “Vaca is cow. If you want to play with the knife on the table, it’s a Faca – with an F.” We play Azul, a great board game
Fack-da-mesa, or how to play board game Azul Read More »
Now, Henk is at home here. The first time he came here was in 2012, as a member of the volunteer team that renovated one of the holiday homes. Great fun to do the necessary work with volunteers I had reserved three quarters of 2013 for intensive renovation, but it had already been completed months
The return of the yard wanderer Read More »
It was a tough choice this week – which topic should I choose? All sorts of things happened, and you can’t throw everything in there. Nobody understands that anymore. And also: is it all interesting? Difficult, difficult … It’s great that another cactus has beautiful flowers again, but is that interesting enough to mention? What
Messy week with football Read More »
Nine years ago, he was here for the first time. As a volunteer. At that time we were still busy renovating, mosaicing and improving our village, and Sebastiaan certainly participated with enthusiasm! And he photographed everything. It was a nice group of volunteers back then Patricia and Martin, a german couple from Rostock with an
Romance, sports and photography mixed together Read More »
“Did you know that I was almost arrested for harassment?” Paul asks with a mischievous look in his eyes. “Oh,” I almost recoile but laughing, “do I have to worry now, lock my door at night?” He dismisses my remark, clearly looking forward to the story: “It was when I lived in Nijmegen (Holland), and
Jogging volunteers and other pleasant things Read More »
Just 3 years old, and she already knew exactly what she wanted. Little Viola saw and heard someone with a violin and at the same time knew: I want to play the violin. Her parents had apparently picked it up intuitively much earlier, and had called her Viola. How beautiful do you want it? Making
Student orchestra – music on holiday Read More »
“I think portuguese sounds so good,” says Tim cheerfully as I try to avoid a few dogs scurrying along the road, “I don’t understand a word of it, but it sounds good, and that gives me a great holiday feeling.” He continues: “I first heard it from my aunt’s friend, she met them in Brazil
They return voluntarily Read More »
Statistically we’ve had a lot of (multi-)talented volunteers and guests. They’re probably attracted by all the eye-candy that has been created over the years. The first time Bruno came, it was an exciting event, since I already had a group of four young girls around. They came from all over, Germany, Canada, France and Hungary.
Multi-talented volunteers Read More »
