The Elbe

I woke up around 6AM on top of my deflated air mattress. I didn't want to wake up but I was uncomfortable and I needed to visit the loo so I got up at 6:30. Yay... Not. Anyhow, I also had a shower which was nice and I enjoyed the silence at the camping very much. When I got back to my tent around 7AM I found Paul and Nancy awake and we walked to the banks of the river Elbe where we sat and chatted a bit. It was very quiet and very foggy. It was just us, the birds and the cows. Oh, and a dog.

When we got back there was fresh coffee which tasted excellent-o! Jan and Susanne had woken up as well.

Paul and Nancy's tent :-)

Around 9:30 breakfast (buffet) was served. Very nice fresh German bread rolls and cakes. Susanne did a great job!

Around noon we went home again. We had lunch along the way. I had a very nice Jager schitzel.

Paul and Nancy.

Yours truly.

Happy birthday Jan!

Today is my mate Jan's 40th birthday so I wrapped him a pressie which made many people laugh. Why?! ;-)

I drove along with Nancy and Paul to see my mate Jan for his 40th birthday. Jan didn't know I was coming along!

On the way to Germany we stopped a few times and one of those times Nancy saw that there was a geo-cache hidden at the car park so we went looking for it and she found it! It was very cleverly hidden in this table...

We met the gang in town and after a brief visit to Jan and Susanne's new place we all went to the camping. It was fun seeing everybody again and indeed, Jan was very happily surprised to see me :-)

I was able to borrow a little green tent.

All of Jan's family was there and a few friends.

I bought these at a gasstation along the way ;-)

The BBQ was lovely and everybody had a great evening!

40 years of Vincent

Chocolate caramel pie at work for my birthday. I turned 40 today.

Lots of colleagues came to collect a piece. These guys always show up: Geert, Guido, Wim and Norbert.

One of my pie's biggest little fans, Ilse. She's only little but she eats the biggest pieces, awesome, best customer ;-)

The outfit (Tee and glasses) was a gift from Tanja. Yeah, thanks! haha

I left work early coz I took the arvo off. There were 2 Egyptian geese with a baby. Baby was playing Superman.

I was meeting people pre-dinner in Mulligans. When I got there Nicole and Marjolein were waiting for me already. Lovely welcome :-)

Later Danny and Patricia joined as well.

Vincent's angels, 13-09-2013 ;-)

We walked over to Wagamama at 18:30 according to my tight schedule.

Gerrit brought me a little bottle of whisky. I believe this is not a bad one!

Mickey and Nancy.

Eva and Mic.

Gerrit and Patricia.

Mickey, Nancy and Martijn, who joined later.

Had a lovely dinner at Waga's.

Then it was off to the pub where I was surprised by my good friend Jan who rocked up all se way from Sjermany!

Jan, Nancy (= Jan's sister) and Mic. We had a very full table and when people left, others would come in and join us. I had a terrific night, especially because my girlfriend Simone dropped by for a bit as well. She looked fantastic. I was very happy to see her :-)

At 3AM Nancy and I were kicked out together with Ruud and Laurien who arrived after the pics were taken. I haven't been kicked out of the pub for a while ;-)

Danny gave me a comic that looks real cool! The tubs with chocolate goodies are from Nicole, whisky from Gerrit and a T-shirt from Mulligans. I keep telling people not to buy me a gift but some just can't resist ;-)

Happy birthday Nancy!

I went to Nancy's birthday party. My very old friend Jan was there as well. It was good to see him again.

Nancy's boyfriend Paul plays the keyboard very well. Nancy does guitar and also knows the drums reasonably well. So they did a few songs.

De règâhs

Yesterday somehow, new balcony doors had magically appeared in the houses at the back. They look nice.

Ghandi was walking in the snow today. I stopped on my way to a restaurant. I got off one stop too far...

This Japanese restaurant takes "fortune" very serious.

I met Nancy and her boy friend Paul for dinner.

Then we went to theatre "De omval" in Diemen...

... to see a Flamenco band from The Hague.

"De règâhs". They were fun and very good actually!

Visiting Nancy and Paul

I cleaned my micro garden of weeds a bit today. Fixed up the rose as well.

In the evening I visited Nancy and Paul, lovely people! They made really nice food too.

And they have cats. One of then liked me a lot.

Paul had to work a bit in the morning and went to bed around 1. Nancy and I were going to have just 1 more drink but then somehow ended up drinking and chatting till 5AM. That's always the best conversation ;-)