Deventer Book Fair

Yesterday, on Sunday, was the day of the Annual Book Fair in Deventer (Europe’s largest book fair, attracting some 125,000 visitors). Deventer is quite a nice and picturesque city in the centre-east part of Dutchyland. I had actually never been in it’s city center before.

I am not that much of a bookie. I mean, I read plenty, but still. But The Mom is. She used to go to this book fair with my dad when he was still alive, and after that with one of her cousins, but after she passed away several years ago, she never went back there.

When I was wading through the internets trying to find activities for The Kid and myself during summer break I came across an announcement for the Deventer Book Fair. I talked to The Kid and even thoug it was not really something either of us would go for, we decided to invite The Mom and take her there as we knew that she would love it.

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Hup Holland Hup!

Look at this… Look at those legs… of sheer steel!

Look at those eyes. That is the look of de-ter-mi-na-tion!  I think…

This is our Dutch national football (ok, soccer, whatev) team. They beat all of yer asses and are in the semi-finals tonight against Uruguay.

I am depending on all of you to cheer on the Dutch team.

Seeing as most of you don’t have your own team to cheer on in the World Cup anymore.

So go go go!!! Hup Holland Hup!!! Laat de leeuw niet in zijn hempie staan!!!

Uruguay is going doooowwwwnnnnnn!

* JINX * (Probably)

BitchSterDaveDamOrSummin’-weekend

If all goes well, and I got up before the ass crack of dawn (and now he’s going to say that of course I didn’t háve to get up that early to come to Arrivals at the airport if I hadn’t wanted to, cos he’d happily hung around the airport eating patatjes-met until I had slept in and got my butt to the airport, but ya know, no need, I never sleep in anyway), and I made my way to Schiphol Airport, and his plane actually did touch down in Amsterdam for him to start his Birthday Week trip, I will have picked up the one and only Homo Blogographus from the airport and we are off to start a fun weekend.

We didn’t really name his stop-over in Dutchyland, so I will do that now. I baptise this weekend the BitchSterDaveDamOrSummin’-weekend.

Yes, Dave, I DID in fact STEAL 2 of your graphics, put them together in a ghastly way, and then distorted and fucked them up into something that SHOULD resemble Delft Blue. It was worth the steal right? Right? Heh…

I am not quite sure what we’ll do over the weekend before Dave is off on his trip thru Eastern Europe, but I am prettttyyy sure it will involve Patatjes Met, Old Cheese, some corny Dutch touristy stuff, Tweeting, good laughs and who knows? Maybe the Pooferflargen will put in an appearance… W00t!!!

Looking forward to a fun weekend with a good friend. It’s time for some good times, sugahs!

Look who’s back!!!

Look! Look who’s back!

It’s the peeps of the roadside bulb stores. They have started resurrecting their stores again! That means that Spring is on it’s way. That means that Bulb Season is on it’s way. That means that within a few more weeks this place will be waking up from it’s hibernation and will be crawling with tourists again.

This town is coming back to life again. And not a moment too soon. Yay!