Author Topic: My Country Hope you Like It (Read 7499 times)

ruud · « **Reply #20 on:** February 02, 2006, 10:48:36 »

Hi mike,you are well and truely become dutch,you know things i never heard from thanks for the lexture.I will send you some pictures just have to find some nice ones,tot horens.

Glyn · « **Reply #21 on:** February 02, 2006, 15:34:18 »

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does yours insist on putting ' carpet ' on the table?

When we first got married she did. But that sort of abruptly came to an end when she caught me standing on the table hoovering the thing. ;D
I'm sure she only married me cos I knew how to hoover and fit carpet?

;D ;D ;D ;D

Paulines7 · « **Reply #22 on:** February 02, 2006, 18:04:56 »

Quote from: TULIP-23 on February 01, 2006, 15:46:02

Paulines7 ;)
Hi Nice to speak to you.....To answer your Question the Netherlands
are relatively Flat....a Few Hills ...Unfortunately nothing like you have in the French Alps or Swiss Alps or in Austria.

A Nice Area to Tour with your Caravan if ever you decided to visit this Fabulous Country is Limburg..... also very Close to the Belguim Ardenne
which is Much Steeper than anything in Holland....also your Very Close then To Luxembourg...also very Beautiful with some Beautiful Scenery and Climbs...........
You are absolutely correct the Dutch people the Majority are very very Friendly and Sociable......Come over and see!! Mike
Anything else please dont Hestiate to contact me

Mike, thanks for your reply. We were thinking of going to Luxembourg and Belgium in September but we have now decided to go to France and head down towards the south west where hopefully it will be warmer. If we have a heatwave we may stay further north as we are taking our dog with us. I think I read too that different regulations applied if taking a dog into Luxembourg. Perhaps one day we may visit Holland, but not this year.

TULIP-23 · « **Reply #23 on:** February 02, 2006, 19:55:54 »

Ina ;)

Many Thanks for your Help .......Learned a little more today..

INa Im sure you Might Have some Foto,s for the Folks to Look at,can you Help!!
Bij Voorbaat bedankt Mike

TULIP-23 · « **Reply #24 on:** February 02, 2006, 19:59:22 »

Hello Jill ;).......Yes its Freezing cold over here at the Moment.

Sorry it was a Funeral......What part did you Visit!!

Mike.

TULIP-23 · « **Reply #25 on:** February 02, 2006, 20:07:52 »

Busy-Lizzie ;)

From the Hook of Holland to Germany I think you TRavelled through Utrecht.

Well we Live in a Senior Persons Bungalow with one Bed Room but
we do have a Large Summer-House in the Back......Your More than Welcome to the use of that on Put me up beds.......Just let us Know ok!!

No I went to Evening Classes and then my Company Paid for my Lessons
in the Day time.....its a Very Difficult Language....But I get By....to, start a New Life at 47!! its certainly a Challenge ;D ;D ;D

Thanks for your Questions.......

TULIP-23 · « **Reply #26 on:** February 02, 2006, 20:12:12 »

Ruud Hi Hartelijk Bedankt .........Im just very Interested in my Adopted Country and Proud to Be Dutch!!

Even though Im not a Voetbal Fan....... Sorry!!

Ruud if your could also Post some Picture that would be Fantastic

Thank You. Mike

TULIP-23 · « **Reply #27 on:** February 02, 2006, 20:17:05 »

Please if you have any Questions over The Netherlands Please let me Know
Via this Posting....I will do my best to Answer them or Find the Answer for you ;)

Incidently......Tulips!! Did not Originate in Holland...they came to us Via Turkey in the 16th Century.....but we adopted them and since Holland is World Famous for its Tulip Fields Tulip Bulbs and the Export of all things to do with Tulips :o
Introduced to the European Gardens by the Botanist Clusuis. He is credited
with First growing Tulips from seeds sent from Turkey.

In 1593 he became Professor of Botany at the University of Leiden and Planted Tulips in his Garden There.

They were soon widely distributed throughout Holland and began appearing elsewhere in Europe.

Foster Tulips are Native to Turkestan in an Area now known as Kazakhstan.

So popular did these bulbs become in Holland that [ TULIPOMANIA] developed early in the 17th Century.
People began speculating in Bulbs.....Bulbs of new colours and New Shapes
and paying extravagant prices for them.

TULIP-23 · « **Reply #28 on:** February 02, 2006, 20:28:04 »

Paulines7 ;)

So Sorry to hear that you are unable to pay us a visit here in the Netherlands........The Dog....if Covered by a Rabbi Injection...Blood Testand investigation and wityh an Animal Passport should Have No trouble in Entering Europe.

I can always Check with My Dierenarts [Vet] for you!! Its on his Internet Site......Please let me Know....I know that the procedure takes almost a Year to Complete!! Mike

Jill · « **Reply #29 on:** February 02, 2006, 20:47:34 »

Hi Mike. Took the ferry across from Dover to Dunkerque, then drove up through France and Belgium to Zandvoort. Fantastic cheese shop! Also felt very safe walking back to the b&b from a bar at 1am, although a few fewer beers might have improved the singing! The funeral was at Haarlem Crematorium and as crematoria go, it was quite attractive - much nicer than our local one anyway.

Hope to be back there next year - possible concert.

TULIP-23 · « **Reply #30 on:** February 02, 2006, 21:02:55 »

Hi Jill
Thanks for answering my Question.....So glad that you had a Nice time In Zandvoort......Pretty safe most of the times here in Holland not always.

Do hope you,ll come back and visit us again as you say next year.

If you come by Car Try Dover Calais...also a Nice Route into Holland and Straight Forward.........He enter via Eindehoven.

Robert_Brenchley · « **Reply #31 on:** February 02, 2006, 21:34:34 »

Quote from: TULIP-23 on February 02, 2006, 20:17:05

So popular did these bulbs become in Holland that [ TULIPOMANIA] developed early in the 17th Century.
People began speculating in Bulbs.....Bulbs of new colours and New Shapes
and paying extravagant prices for them.

Tulipomania even has a classic novel devoted to it; The Black Tulip, by Alexandre Dumas.

Arumlily · « **Reply #32 on:** February 03, 2006, 10:02:16 »

Hi Mike, many thanks for your warm welcome. Sorry I didn't post link for sneerboer tools. I'm not good at stuff like that. The time when I was in Eindhoven not sure of spelling. I remember something delicious I ate it is like a little puff up pancakes with lots of icing sugar.

MikeB · « **Reply #33 on:** February 03, 2006, 10:14:56 »

Quote from: Glyn on February 02, 2006, 15:34:18

Quote
does yours insist on putting ' carpet ' on the table?
When we first got married she did. But that sort of abruptly came to an end when she caught me standing on the table hoovering the thing. ;D
I'm sure she only married me cos I knew how to hoover and fit carpet?

;D ;D ;D ;D

Nice one Glyn, but I guess you still have two of everything. One for show and one for use?

TULIP-23 · « **Reply #34 on:** February 03, 2006, 12:37:41 »

Rob ;)

Thank you for the Information......We learn something everyday...thats very true

Thanks again Mike

[ Robert] Found it by Research on a Dutch Site

Black Tulip [1850] Alexandra Dumas
Set in Holland in 1672.........A deceptively simple Story and the Shortest of Dumas's Most famous Novels.

Mike

TULIP-23 · « **Reply #35 on:** February 03, 2006, 12:43:15 »

Arumlily ;)

Many Thanks for your Reply......My Thanks to Ina for putting the Information here from Sneeboer.......Please dont worry Im the Same Techinically with the Puter Two Left Hands ;D ;D

I do believe you Mean= poffertje.......Mini Pancakes covered in Powder-Sugar!!
Really lovely....are,nt they!! :D :D

Paulines7 · « **Reply #36 on:** February 03, 2006, 15:29:42 »

Quote from: TULIP-23 on February 02, 2006, 20:28:04

Paulines7 ;)
So Sorry to hear that you are unable to pay us a visit here in the Netherlands........The Dog....if Covered by a Rabbi Injection...Blood Testand investigation and wityh an Animal Passport should Have No trouble in Entering Europe.

I can always Check with My Dierenarts [Vet] for you!! Its on his Internet Site......Please let me Know....I know that the procedure takes almost a Year to Complete!! Mike

We are just waiting for the results of Meggie's blood test to complete her passport. ;D
I have just had another search of the web regarding going in and out of Luxembourg with a dog, but I cannot find anything now. I thought I had read that dogs need extra tick or worm treatment if going between Luxembourg and France. I must have dreamt it I think. ::)

Is it cold in the Netherlands today? It is freezing here on the edge of Salisbury Plain. Brrrrrrrrr

ruud · « **Reply #37 on:** February 03, 2006, 20:46:53 »

Here are some pics from my hometown and from the surrounding were i live in the netherlands.

ruud · « **Reply #38 on:** February 03, 2006, 20:49:56 »

Typical dutch

polstokspringen

TULIP-23 · « **Reply #39 on:** February 03, 2006, 22:14:41 »

Paulines7
I think when Maggies Test are complete that you,ll have no problems travelling with-ih the E.C.

The Local Paper as produced a Picture we had freezing Rain....turned everything into Cyrstal...after freezing...so BEAUTIFULLY....and yes its still Cold over here
Mike

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Author Topic: My Country Hope you Like It (Read 7499 times)