We have been a bit quiet lately and the main reason is the poor weather!
The freezing weather has continued and the max temperature over the last 2 or 3
weeks has been 5ºC. It has been much too cold to do anything exciting or worth
writing about. We are suffering from a severe case of mid-winter blues which is
not helped by family and friends in SA telling us about the hot weather and
brilliant sunny days they are having nor by all the amazing pictures of Cape
Town in mid-Summer glory we keep seeing on Facebook!
The only way to combat the winter blues is to make holiday plans for the
upcoming Summer! We made a list of all the places we want to visit while we are
in Europe, it is quite a long list, and tried to fit as many into this year as
possible. 2013 will be the year of the travel! Turns out we have more available
leave than holiday budget, lol. This is the list of plans for the year ahead:
March: 6 day visit to Michelle and Graham and little Joshua in London
April: Abi, Frank and little Josh Daubenton will visit us in
Rotterdam
May: 4 day trip to Cork and Ring of Kerry in
Ireland.
June: A week in the Interlaken area of Switzerland with Dave and Olga
Finnemore.
June: 4 days in Iceland for a lab trip (Bron)
August: 2 weeks in Scotland starting in Glasgow and ending in Edinburgh
with the Isle of Skye and the Highlands in the middle.
September/October: a week in Greece or another equally
sunny beach holiday
December/January: Southern Italy, probably the Napoli area
Everything up to Scotland in August is booked and arranged so far. We hoping
to pick up a cheap last minute deal for an Autumn break to (hopefully still)
sunny Greece. And by December we will also need a sun break away but this year somewhere
other than Spain. We also hope to squeeze in some other long weekends away. We
would love to visit Ev and Frances Duarte near Dresden in Germany and we are
hoping Rob and Sue Huddy plan a European trip tagged onto a conference in
Italy.
Other places we still want to go to but probably not this year include:
Croatia!
Turkey
Norway
Nice, Cannes and Montpellier area, France
Copenhagen
Belfast and Giant’s Causeway, Ireland
Galway and County Mayo, Ireland
… to name a few!
We hope you are as jealous of our plans as we are when we see your
pictures of Table Mountain or Kirstenbosch on a beautiful summers day! =)
In other news we have been having friends over for dinner and also going
for fun dinners at friend’s places. Yesterday we also completed our Dutch tax forms
for 2012. Why does it feel like we are always doing tax forms?? This time round
we could use the online programme to fill everything in and while much easier
than last year’s M form, still took some time and patience to complete.
We are feeling relieved that it is March and hope it will start warming
up soon. The coming week at least is forecast to be warmer, around 15ºC, and we
are looking forward to the first daffodils of the season soon! We are also really
looking forward to lammetje knuffelen soon. Watch this space to find out what
lammetje knuffelen is! To be posted in the near future…
Hope you are well and have a good week ahead!
x
A funky corner apartment we really liked in a street in Utrecht!
Thanks Dan and Sam for a very kewl raclette dinner last night!
Michelle and Super Josh!
Mom and baby are home and doing well =)
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