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Who doesn't know him from back in the day: Bob Ross. The TV artist with his huge head of hair who made beautiful paintings in a short...

Haven't made a blog for a while. Not that I didn't have the time, but the long winter cold came in after a few warm days and the prospect...

A few weeks have passed in the year 2021. We slammed the door of 2020 with a big bang. Whether the new year will get better? No idea. The...

A year ago I started this blog because of our emigration to France. Now a year ago, our entire household went into the moving van, and we...

The summer season has ended. Despite the difficult start with many hiccups in France, which means fewer bookings, we should definitely...

Summer is over. That is to say: from the time we moved here, we have mainly had good weather. Okay, also a lot of rainy days where it...

It has been a while since the last blog was written. It has therefore been a busy period in which a lot has happened. Therefore now a...

It took a bit longer before I wrote the next blog. Sorry! Here in France, the confinement is decreased again. This allows us to do more...

Before you know it, another week has passed. A week in which everything went as normal as possible. The sun was shining, but...

As of this writing, it has been 4.5 months that we live here in France. Now this does not seem long, but the months are going fast. The...

In the first months we came here, we had a lot of rain. I could barely imagine that we would ever get one day that there would be no...

I don't even know when it's Easter. Is that important at the moment? Back in the days when the girls were still in primary school I knew...

We are now halfway through the first period of the lock-down in France. I must say: quite a few measures are being taken here. It is only...

Two weeks. Two weeks in which the world has been turned upside down. Yes I said I wouldn't write about corona. So much has been said...

Yes, another blog. Not much happened last week, although I tried to connect with the French system of registering some important matters,...

You get up in the morning with the expectation that the day will be a normal day. You make plans, whatever you want to implement on the...

As Bob Dylan his song is saying: the answer is. But for now, here are the trees, the leaves, the birds, everything is blowin' in the...

After our days of heating problems, I can now say that it has become nice and warm in the house. Fortunately, because the sky in Normandy...

Well, I promised to write a blog way sooner, but, we have had a very 'dramatic' period. It all started more than a week ago. Yes, we...

Here we are, a little more than a month we live in France, and now for since a day we finally have our own connection to the outside...