Monday, April 25, 2011

You'll be missed...

* cheese
* tulip fields
* cobbled streets
* public transportation
* dutch punctuality
* fiona
* efficient postal system
* online shopping
* sligro
* zoe
* de leukste taarten shop.nl (for all the baking supplies imaginable)
* girls able to play hockey in the street
* extended european spring/summer evenings
* dutch beach days
* feeling safe enough to leave the doors open
* the van niekerks
* blue parking discs (not)
* easy travel
* donna
* the girls' school (and krista, annemieke, maarten, arianne, kristy, annette, julie, harma, marion, lenka)
* the fabulous dutch infrastructure
* self scanners at albert heijn (and that's pretty much the only thing i'll miss about albert heijn!)
* martine
* jenny and her fabulous training
* personal training at westvliet--rialda, jacqueline, nicky--all fabulous clients
* weekend adventures and many, many hours of laughter with the angers and rasmussens
* wassenaar branch
* south african moms and tots group
* windmills
* clogs
* dutch bread
* the schippers
* hema
* fast internet speed
* our amazing babysitter, mikayla
* dutch architecture
* momiji sushi
* the cornish's
* wanda
* ruth-ann
* thursday 'koopavond' (shopping night)
* best quality fruit and vegetables
* dutch yoghurt
* internet banking
* good drivers
* pannekoekhuisen
* bicycles in all forms, shapes and sizes, ridden in ALL weather conditions
* cheap flowers
* 4 seasons
* people become friendly when the sun shines :)
* kraamzorg (a nurse who comes to your home to wait on you hand and foot for 8 days after having given birth)
* excellent infrastructure
* clean and well kept country
* new year's eve!
* koninginnedag
* our tax money is put to good use
* kipsate (sate chicken)
* erwtensoep
* visiting the german chrismas markets in december

4 comments:

wanda said...

Dearest Claire, that's quite a list and guess it means you've had a good time in 'our' kikkerlandje ;) I miss you already (come visit the Caribbean!). So happy we have internet. We'll keep in touch and one day... I'm pretty sure... we will meet somewhere on the globe :) Love you lieve Claire!

Anonymous said...

We've definitely got internet banking - don't know what I would do without it!! So glad you are all so much closer to us now. Family is so important, and one day I'm sure you will be able to go back and visit nl. Wishing you lots of fun and laughter back in the sun. Love you.

Lilian said...

Good to read you had a good time in Holland!

Anonymous said...

thank you - miss you too !xNicky