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@clio Jan 31, 2019, 9:15 AM UTC

Snow in the Morvan (Burgundy France), and not just a bit, but huge quantities

I have not written in months, but today I can not resist writing. There is so much snow in the Morvan (Burgundy, France) and it is so overwhelmingly beautiful that I have to share some photos with yo…

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@clio Nov 11, 2018, 1:27 PM UTC

Auschwitz, will we ever learn?

Yesterday the participants of Steemfest 3 had the opportunity to visit Auschwitz/Birkenau. The German concentration camp in Poland. I read a post about this visit from my son Exyle and also the comme…

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clio
@clio Jul 4, 2018, 9:11 PM UTC

July 4, Independence Day in the US. We even celebrated this day in our hamlet in France. But the weather!!

Our American neighbors in our little hamlet in The Morvan (Burgundy, France) invited us for a hamburger dinner tonight, (what else would you eat on the fourth of July!) Of course, the American flag s…

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@clio Jun 21, 2018, 8:47 PM UTC

The longest day and a amazing sunset in Burgundy France

Today, June 21, is the longest day. When I left the kitchen at 10 o'clock in the evening and went outside, it was still so light that I could read outside without the help of artificial light. I took…

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@clio Jun 7, 2018, 8:40 PM UTC

Sam and cars. A real love story!

Next Saturday my husband Sjoerd and I will return to France. We have been here in the Netherlands for more than 6 weeks and have taken care of Sam a lot. We enjoyed it so much! I have been so busy th…

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@clio May 24, 2018, 12:09 PM UTC

Fun with toddler Sam, how we make memories for the future.

My daughter and her partner are still very busy with their new build house. Unfortunately, Murphies' law is still applicable and things go wrong. So Sjoerd, my husband and I are often asked to take c…

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@clio May 14, 2018, 3:32 PM UTC

Today it is 78 years ago that the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands was bombed. The hole center of the city was destroyed.

Rotterdam today remembers the bombing of the city 78 years ago. Four days after the start of the Second World War, the Germans bombed the city of Rotterdam to force the Dutch to surrender. And we did…

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@clio May 13, 2018, 4:52 PM UTC

A delicious lunch with @exyle and his sister on Mother's Day

As a surprise, my daughter Eva and my son Mark (@exyle) invited me for a lunch on Mother's Day in a well-known fish restaurant in Rotterdam. My oldest son could not be present. He is on a well-deserv…

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@clio May 5, 2018, 12:50 PM UTC

What a joy! Grandson Sam and the tower ....

Our grandson Sam stays with my husband and me for two days. When he came, his mother brought him on her bike, he was thirsty. He drank his bottle as he stared at the tower that grandfather Sjoerd had…

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@clio May 1, 2018, 2:48 PM UTC

Typically Dutch! Clouds, water and ships and some rain of course!

I want to share with you some pictures I made yesterday. I think you can only take those in Holland. Yesterday, my husband and I had to go to a little town in the middle of the Netherlands. When we c…

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