Category: our wealthy life

  • EEF

    EEF

    Last weekend there was a festival at NoordBeveland near Kortgene. It’s the “Endless Island Festival” 2022. We have experienced two days of this fun relaxed celebration. There was a lot of music, food, art, culture and … nice people! I made some photos … have to wait till next year …

  • Our camper is for sale

    Our camper is for sale

    UPDATE ! : Our camper is sold ! Pancho Veenstra is the new owner. Later (too late unfortunately) I found out Pancho is just a shadowy car dealer posing as an enthusiastic hobbyist. I thought I was selling the camper to someone with little capital who wanted to travel through Europe and refurbish an older…

  • busy to get used to getting older

    busy to get used to getting older

    Life in these turbulent times with climate change, political chaos (the Netherlands), the growing wealth gap, COVID-19 deniers, digital money, energy transition, resurgent populism, reduced reading skills among young people, neoliberal economy, etc. did not get any easier for guys like me who grew up in the turbulent sixties and seventies. So even though I no longer…

  • Start early in passing on an understanding of the natural environment

    Start early in passing on an understanding of the natural environment

    Grandmothers are incredibly important in this …

  • Woodstock 1969

    Woodstock 1969

    About 50 years ago I saw this film for the first time. The music and images are stuck in my brain. In times like the present with COVID-19, climate change, destruction of biodiversity, people fleeing all over the world ………. I occasionally take comfort from the images of what was the protest 50 years ago…

  • 19 months on her way to the crossroads

    19 months on her way to the crossroads
  • Chistmas again …

    Chistmas again …

    It’s that time of year again … Christmas or as some say X-mas. Also for Atheists, it is a pleasant time that thanks to the long tradition, reminds me of all previous Christmases, especially those where my parents still lived and those where my children were still small children. Every year, exactly on the day…

  • One of the best things life can offer …

    One of the best things life can offer …

    … is walking with your granddaughter in an autumn forest. We also found the tree where I carved the name of Hera’s mother 33 years ago

  • A short story told by Kurt Vonnegut …

    A short story told by Kurt Vonnegut …

    When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no…

  • I was born in 314 ppm …

    I was born in 314 ppm …

    I was born in 314 parts per million of Carbon Dioxide, my children were born in 345 ppm CO2 , and my granddaughter is born in 409 ppm. The most commonly used definitions of time are expressed in eras. Recently I have seen more and more that environmentally conscious people use the concentration of CO2…

  • 33 years ago our youngest was born …

    33 years ago our youngest was born …

    From the start, she worked fabulously well in our family and she also enjoyed the adventurous holidays in small tents to the full. She learned a lot from her slightly older sister. Congratulations ! and we are glad that you are there and that you just stayed the way you are. Meanwhile, the mother of…

  • Exploring Europe with a camper

    Exploring Europe with a camper

    An acquaintance asked for advice because he wants to explore Europe with a camper for a several years. That is why I decided to write down my experiences that I have gained with our motorhomes over the past decades. First, there is the choice of whether you want to be a traveller or a tourist. Second, it is important what financial options you…

  • Normandy, France.

    Normandy, France.

    We went travelling for a few days with our old camper. After months of unemployment in our small family bubble in a world with COVID-19 and many sterile job applications, the need to see a different environment was great. The general advice is to avoid crowds and therefore Normandy seemed a suitable target. The first…

  • New Normal ?

    New Normal ?

    I am clearly unable to cope with the new normal that the rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is bringing about. A few days 35 degrees Celsius in Vlissingen … and now I suffer from migraines. Almost all I did was sit in the shade and take pictures from there … and reading books ……

  • in our garden …

    in our garden …

    Yesterday the temperature reached 36 degrees Celsius in our garden. I have done almost nothing but observe what happened around me …