"You're about to fly back in time..." - The pilot of our 1944 DC3 plane. .And he wasn't wrong. This is Prinses Amalia's story, as posted on my Facebook page.."My name is Prinses Amalia and I was born in 1944 to the United States Air Force. Read more

"In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority.  In the little towns and villages there are no minorities; people are not numerous enough.  You must see the world there, perforce.".- W.B. Yeats Here are some read more

We watched these two with their long ears go to their mother to suckle a while. Then they returned to their spot in the sun and as naturally as the wind or the rain they sat down and folded into one another. We stopped at not one but two read more

"You can cycle to the coast from Amsterdam... It doesn't take long," Somebody told us last year. They were talking about getting yourself to Zandvoort a part-cute traditional seaside town, part-well-developed seaside resort on the North Sea, approximately 35 kilometres from the centre of Amsterdam.No, it doesn't read more

I must be the only British girl who is a little peeved that New Amsterdam's name was changed to New York. Silly British wanting to leave their ye olde town names all over the world... How lovely it would have been to think of New Amsterdam on the other read more