Third Week of August

We have a week alone before we entertain more guests. Monday we sent Liesbeth and Peter off for a short vacation to his hometown of Nuremburg, Germany. We will watch over Duco who is staying home and part of the time sleeping with friends. Noor is at sailing camp for the week. 

Check out the sky. This is what they were doing yesterday.

We walked the path around the chicken farm and did some grocery shopping.

Tuesday we took our 3 buses and went to Amersfoort to look for a vitamin shop. We're getting pretty good to this - 45 minutes we were in the middle of the old town. 

Bikes are not an unusual site but, one without any padding on the seat is.

Found the vitamin shop. Its about 3 times larger then our Eco Plaza in Soest and we purchased everything we were after. Ate soup and shared an egg foo young at a Chinese restaurant. 

The waiter spoke very good English and we had a nice chat

Afterward, Linda shopped for clothes but couldn't find anything she liked. We walked around a little trying to find an antique store that we had visited before and saw an egg cup. We found it but it was closed for vacation until the end of the month. It is August. 


A little further we came upon Dr. Chocolate. Well, we had to visit him and bought a truffle apiece with amaretto in it and ate it immediately. Also a box of dark chocolate coated apricots. This gave us an excuse to look for a coffee cafe. The cafe turned out to be the old outdoor fish market. An espresso and chocolate, yummy. 

We intended to eat sausages and sauerkraut for dinner but when we stopped by the fish truck which only comes on Tuesday we ended up buying some raw herring and kibbling (fried fish). Before we got home, we stopped at a bench in the park halfway up the hill and ate our fish. I know - you're going to laugh at me saying we walked up a hill. It really is a small hill - probably the only one in Holland. The sausage and sauerkraut will have to wait.

The cat feels very safe and comfortable around us.

Wednesday morning we invited Duco and a friend (Noud) over for breakfast: American pancakes, bacon and eggs, and leftover herring  and eel. They ate most of it and we had a nice discussion about connecting up to Netflix from their mobile phone with a special device and watching SciFi movies. They had been in Amersfoort yesterday while we were there, buying this device that would get them connected. They rode their bikes over there in about 25 minutes.

Duco plays baseball and Noud plays field hockey (a big sport here). Yesterday was the first day of practice for hockey and Noud got hit by a stick near his eye. Nothing serious but he had a bandage.