Winged Feet

I’m sorry that I didn’t updated for such a long time. I was very busy the last week. It wasn’t because of school this time, no, it was freezing. Dutch people become crazy when it is freezing. Freezing means frozen water, which means ice skating! Ice skating till it gets dark and then going home to eat Stamppot and watch the news about de Elfstedentocht  (the Eleven Cities Ice Skating tour)It’s hard to explain but the whole country was depressed when we heard there won’t be a Elfstedentocht this year because the ice wasn’t good enough. The last one was in 1997 which I can’t remember. (You can click on the words 'Stamppot' and 'Elfstedentocht' to read a very funny English article about it)

Winter landscape with iceskaters from Hendrick Avercamp. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

When I’m on my Winged feet, my ice skates, I love my country so much. It’s so beautiful to almost fly on the ditches and rivers trough the nature or on the canals in the cities. Below some pictures of the Dutch people which are “schaatsen”, ice skating.

Schaatspret Skating Fun in the Dutch polder

Keizersgracht race Amsterdam

From now on I’m trying to upload more often.

It's orange!

After some stupid kids blew up our mailbox we hadn’t a mailbox for 2 months. That means cycling to another mailbox which takes way more time than the short walk to the old one on the corner of my street.

But finally, we have a new one! And it’s ORANGE! I like orange. Yeah, I’m Dutch ;) Below you can see some pictures from our first meeting. I think we are gonna friends.

Storks and Cauliflower

Last Thursday have sent this card to Anna in Russia. (are all Russian girls named Anna?) She wrote on her Postcrossing profile that she likes colourful cards. I think this one is colourful.

You can see a stork with a baby in his mouth. I wrote about the Dutch traditions to tell little children that they were found in the cauliflower or that they are brought by a stork.

I love stork tradition. You can see storks everywhere when there is a new born in a house. Do you have traditions like this in your country as well?

Birthday Post

Today I’ll show you all the postcards I got for my birthday 1,5 week ago. I got cards from my family, friends and also from Marlous and an early card from Elina, Postcrossing.

(I think my postman has problems with his back now.)

Last Monday, I received this letter from Marlous. She wrote a big letter and had put lots of nice things in it. Two little envelopes with old stamps in it, air mail stickers, a birthday card and a beautiful spell. It felt like a Birthday gift. 

The stationery that she has used:

The Birthday card

Thank you so much, Marlous! I think your Letter Writing Project is wonderful!

It has arrived!

My first letter writing project letter has arrived! As I said a few blog posts ago, I have sent a letter to Marlous. Here some pictures I made:

And here some pictures which Marlous made:

I think it was really fun to do, so this won’t be my last letter. When I get a letter from Marlous I’ll show you.

Just a card from Leiden

When I had to wait 30 minutes at the trainstation in Leiden, because I missed my train, I took a look at the postcardcabinet in the HEMA. There I found this card. It's very simple, but it says exactly what it has to say:

Geen e-mail,     No email,
Geen voicemail,     No voicemail,
Geen sms,     No sms,
Of een msn,     Or a msn,
Maar gewoon een kaart uit Leiden!     Just a card from Leiden

I decided to buy it and sent it to my best friend. We don't see eachother very often because we live and study in different citiess. Let's hope she likes my card!