Simone's amazing world of TEA part three

I like the different kind of wrapping...

Korean Tea!!!

A friend brought it home for a special moment. He wanted to try it.

Since I'm such a tea-fan, he let me try it. Strangely enough, I liked it... Can't describe the taste though. It was just odd... hahaha....

Simone's amazing world of TEA part two

You know I love Tea,

Well this is something I like about Tea as well...

The way they wrap it!!

Help us sell our place!!house

Dear friends, family, readers in The Netherlands... can you help us out here?

The link bellow is a website we made about our house. If you read this and you know someone who wants to live in Rotterdam... please tell them about our website! Link us on your facebook, twitter etc. If you make this happen and someone you told about this will buy our house, you win a cake!!!

http://www.invader-stu.com/our_place_for_sale/

Thank you all so much!!

Popcakes second Attempt!!

Made possible by Marianne&Dienke!!

Schiermonnikoog

If you would like to see a part of The Netherlands that you have never seen before, I would like to give you an idea. In the north of The Netherlands you will find some islands. They're called "De Waddeneilanden" There are Dutch ones and German ones.

Big ones, small ones. Some of them are famous for their sheep & cranberries, others for there natural enviroments. Some are very touristy-like, others are more for people that look for peace & quiet.

A few weeks ago I went to Schiermonnikoog with my English husband, his mum and dad and my mum and dad. It's one of the smaller islands. When the water is very low, you could even walk from the island to the mainland and vica versa. The village on the island is tiny and has old houses. (from 1700/1800) It's like walking through an open air museum. The little shops are adorable and there is even an old fashion candyshop! The boattrip is also an event itself. If you ae lucky (and we were on the way back) you will spot some seelions. A great day out, even when it rains!!!

One of the other islands that I can recomment as well is Ameland. It's a bit bigger and has on either side a little village. If you want to go more touristy-like you can visit Terschelling or Texel.

Have fun exploring a different part of The Netherlands.

Low water? You can walk to the mainland. It's going to take you hours and you will get wet! Don't do the walk without a guide. When the water comes in again you're in big trouble!!

Candystore!

A great weekend in the countryside of Holland

My husband has a new hobby...

He discovered our camera and what you can do with it.

I'm afraid I will not see that camera again!

We were invited to the lovely home of Vally&Koos in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. We spent a great weekend with them. It was a relaxing, entertaining and fun musical weekend. We walked & talked, sailed, played music and took loads of photos

Vally&Koos thanks for a great weekend!

Here you can see some of the 350 photos we took :D

This is me... or at least my ear...

As i said, my husband has a new hobby...

Since I lost the camera to my husband,

Koos was so kind to let me use one of his camera's

We sailed on the Hennie H and had a real Hennie H experience...

Vally showed me how to play a mandoline, it was fun!

I played around with B&W photos and worked on grey scales..

Simone's amazing world of TEA part one

Tea in Berlin....
Tea on the train to Berlin...Tea makes me tick!!

Parade of the Easter eggs!!

This is how they decorate shoppingcenters in Berlin for Easter.Isn't it beautiful?

Wall-E

Sunday boat trip

Rotterdam has a lot to offer.

We already knew that, but we do experience it more and more...

Two weeks ago it was a great spring day. It was sunday and we had some time to relax. We decided to end our special relax day on the "Berenboot"

If you live in Rotterdam or somewhere near, you must know the

"Beren restaurants".

You can find them everywhere in Rotterdam and some places close to Rotterdam. It's gezellig, the food is reasonably prised and nice. Good when you dont feel like cooking :D

When you have some soft teddy bears that need a new home you can bring them to the Beer Restaurants, they are happy to take them in. All the restaurants are packed with Soft toys (bears) And every beer restaurant has it's own Bear name, like; Betty Beer, Brutus Beer etc. There's even a Bezorgbeer that dellivers the Beer food on your doorstep. The guy that will knock on your door, has a Bearheadhelmet on, seriously :D

Since it was great weather and we already wanted to do this for a long time, we went to the Berenboot. Normaly you'll have to make a reservation, but we we're lucky... there was one table left on the boat. The boat leaves at 5pm 0r 8 pm and it takes you through the harbour of Rotterdam in about 2 1/2 hours. During this nice boatride a buffet is served and you can eat as much as you want. After the buffet there's also a nice dessert. It was a fun trip on a sunny sunday evening. We can really recommend it!

Make a reservation on this website, and try it... it's fun!

(and not that expensive :D)

www.berenboot.nl

I shouldn't spoil the surprise, but it's too great not to share this with you....

There's this sort of 'dancefloor' when you get on to the boat.

When dinner starts, the floor starts moving and a real buffet appears in the middle of the boat. Brilliant!

I hope you will try this... it's so much fun!

If you are more into pancakes... next to this boat in de Parhaven in Rotterdam is the pannenkoekboot docked. Have fun!

Old car&New car

This is my 'old' car... I bought it 9 years ago. I loved it, it took me everywhere I wanted to go. And although it looks small on the outside... it's huge on the inside! Once you put the seats down you have enough space to go camping in Denmark and take all the stuff you need with you in the car. Or go camping in Luxembourg, this car took me places...

You want to move houses, not a problem.. this baby takes loads of boxes and a fridge on top. In short, I loved this car and it never let me down!

But the sweet 'old' lady was getting old and the older you get, the more money you cost every year. So with pain in my heart I had to say goodbye to this sweet little lady. Luckely my uncle has a garage and he took her in. I know he will take good care of her and let her have a few nice years somehwere in friesland where the grass is still greener then here ;P

And this is the newest lady in our midst. The bigger sister of my 'old' car. She is one year younger, more powerful and bigger.

It now has to travel around with two people in it, and my husband will be driving this one as well.So it's not only my car anymore but now it's: 'ours'.

So goodbye 'old' blue, welcome new blue!

Ladies and gents, our new car:

We have her for two weeks now and we got to know each other a little... haha.. She likes to drive faster then the old one and she is definitely bigger and more powerful. She's also very stuborn, she doesn't like it when we leave the radio on. When we do that, she drains out the battery and refuses to start!

Ah well, when we know each other well enough she will quit that nonsense as well!

And otherwise we'll call the ANWB again!!

Wall-E

Wall-E what are you doing??

There it is..

I promised you something...

But it's hard to keep a promise when the object you're going to take a photo of is not working!

I was finaly at the other platform, walking towards the 'thing' to make it work. What happened is hilarious... all these weeks of hoping, gone in a second.. it wasn't working. Which one was working? The one on the other platform!! It's starting to become a tradition I suppose! With only 2 minutes on the clock before my train arrived, I didn't have time enough to run to the other platform. This is as far as I got:

The weirdest things...

When you travel to work every day by train you come across the weirdest things. Also traveling by train is a big adventure in this country. But that's another story.... it's a story about how a trainjourney of normally an hour can turn into 3 hours when it's snowing. And then in the end it took you at least 6 hours to go to work and back home again in the evening.

Anyway... there's been said enough about trains and snow in Holland, let's hope it snows when I don't have to work...because I love snow!

Where was I...? Oh yeah, you come across the weirdest things on your travels to work, this is what I spotted the other day:

You might already have seen it, but it took me by surprise a little...

Any idea what it is?

I wasn't the only one wondering, I must say it was hilarious to see people walking past it en see them trying to figure it out. The thing that made this really funny was, that this one was actually not working. The one on the platform opposite was....

It made me laugh, because people at my platform were determinant to get it working. It must have something to do with jealousy i suppose...

Circling around it, pushing the button. It was a show, a nice show for me in the early mornings.

While the people at the other platform were happy and warm, the people at my platform started to get even more jealous and frustrated. Since i had to wait a while before my train was due to arrive I saw new people arriving and wondering what this weird object was.

Me...? I was sitting on a bench drinking my tea and enjoying the show !

So... any idea what this is??