Back in Holland


Back in the decadent West, hooray!


Anneliese in where else? haar geboortestad, the city of her birth, 20 years ago this summer


Amsterdam gables


gable closeup (the hook is used to secure rope to hoist things to the upper floors)


Liese's Tante Rosalien and her big brother Marcel at Rosalien's house in Amsterdam


Rosalien's living room...Europeans tend to go for ultramodern interiors in their very old buildings


Marcel, Inge and Kim's new house in Venray, Limburg Province,
about an hour and a half southeast of Amsterdam, a half hour south of Nijmegen


Venray interior--everyone in Holland ALWAYS has fresh flowers in the house

Venray house, more views


The 'hood in Venray, population about 40.000 but like all Dutch municipalities,
a self-contained town with a real central business district, not just a useless suburb


Kim and her dog, Dobby (named after Harry Potter's house-elf)


Anneliese and Dobby


Kim is in an English-speaking school now and Anneliese
has expressed interest in living in Holland after she graduates and learning Dutch,
so hopefully soon they will speak each other's languages!

Marsa Alam
Luxor

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