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Next stop; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Our flight to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with Qatar Airways and an evening of dinner.
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The beautiful chambers of Al Hambra
But first We are sorry about letting you in the dark for so such a long time. Al Hambra After our stop with the car and our engine sign still on, we drove to Al Hambra (Red Palace) in Granada. The place was magnificent. First, we went to visit the Palace of Nasrid. Everywhere we looked, we saw beautiful walls. The palace is the only surviving palatine city of the Islamic Golden age. If you go there, you really have to visit this palace. At some places in the castle we could still see traces of the militairy. Drive home We stayed in Spain for one more night and went…
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Our unexpected visit to Antequera
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Cadiz and Arabilis release
The game Arabilis: Super harvest For the last three weeks we stayed in Chiclana de la Frontera. It’s a small place at the coast of Andalusia in Spain. We planned to do a lot of work here. Last week Tim released his game Arabilis: Super harvest. You can get the game on www.itch.com, Apple store and Google play. The game is without ads. It’s a puzzle game with a great flow in it. Ellen played it a lot of times and still wants to keep playing it. A day in Cadiz Cadiz is a small town with a big cathedral. The cathedral was very nice, but we went there for…
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Back to the Netherlands
Road to Sao Roque After a short stay in Piedade we biked to Sao Roque. Ofcourse we had some nice views. And who are we, not to show them to you. Sao Roque The trip to Sao Roque was hard, but it was the last long trip before our flight back to the Netherlands. In Sao Roque we walked around the town. It was just as lovely as the rest of the island. The last view of Pico was setteling in. Our last ride on our bikes we went down a road with a velocity of 50 kilometers a hour. That was fun. Return from Azores Our last flight in…
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“Traces of war” hike and Castle Heeswijk
Hike “Traces of war” In a part of the Loonse and Drunense dunes that we haven’t covered yet, stood a memorial monument. We hiked for two kilometers from our car to the memorial place. After a short while Tim discovered some QR-codes and began to scan them whit his phone. This area was one of the places the Germans held there ammunition. At the end of there war the German blew up there ammunition, because there were afraid it would fell into the wrong hands. Castle Heeswijk As you probably will know now, we love to snoop around in castles, gardens and history. The castle itself is an old building,…
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War museum and Drunense duinen
Museum of war Overloon This is the biggest museum in the Netherlands regarding World War II. We decided to pay in front because the last time we went to a museum is was sold out. It’s a good thing we did because it was full. After we entered the first thing we found is a hall full of collectibles regarding the German occupation. There is a lot of history to tell and the most interesting thing that we found, is that the Germans loved their paperwork and the reason why Dutch people love their road signs. After the history part we walked into a big hall with a lot of…
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Heritage, prisons and craftmanship
We’re enjoying Drenthe quite a bit! The time we took for sightseeing might be to short to see all that we want to see and it turns out there is so much fun stuff to see and do here. Our next best thing of “things to do” on our list was the prison museum in Veenhuizen. This small village was home to the most secure prison in the Netherlands up to 2007. They dedicated one of the buildings as a museum which focusses on the prison system in the Netherlands, starting in the middle ages up to the present day. We booked a guided tour through the part of the…
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Dwingelderveld and Westerbork
After our arrival in Odoorn we decided to go to Dwingelderveld and Westerbork. Dwingelderveld National Park This national park has some walking routes. The shortest is around 5 km, the second is 7 km and the longest is 13 km. We decided to take the longest. The whole route exist our of a gray trail that we had to follow. Because of the grey color is was easy to miss some of the things. After a few hours of walking we discovered that for ourselves. So we took a detour of 1 km. The scenery was really nice. We did some walking before, but not this far. We found that…
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Bai Zwolle, Hai Odoorn
The weather here in the Netherlands has been quite crappy these past few days.. It did limit our motivation of going outside somewhat but we manage to hike through another national park called “Sallandse Heuvelrug”. The park consists mostly out of a large heather with some nice flowing hills. We enjoyed being here a lot, there were not many people around and the area was beautiful. This week we also have left our awesome BnB near Zwolle and moved up further north into the province of Drenthe. During our car journey, we stopped along the way for lunch at a cool looking restaurant near the edge of a forest area.…
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Giethoorn
One of those huge tourist attractions we’ve heard lots about, but never went. Giethoorn. Since we are in the neighborhood we couldn’t resist investigating it. It was actually kind of nice. We were also very lucky with the amount of tourists, because we went on a Monday, the weather forecast was not great, and also there is still somewhat of a pandemic going on. That probably had something to do with it. We decided on renting a electric boat for the day and just cruise through the small canals and national parks nearby. It turned out to be a very nice day indeed. We did think about what it must…
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Waterloopbos and Naturalis
Naturalis? You Dutch readers might think “That’s not near Zwolle at all!” And you are right, it is not. We had to be in Leiden for Tim’s by-annual blood tests which he needs to do because of his Hemophilia. Since we both had never been to the Naturalis and it’s in walking distance of the hospital, we decided to visit. Naturalis The Naturalis is a 200 years old natural historic museum based in an amazing looking building. They moved into this futuristic piece of architecture not too long ago. The museum has an impressive display of taxidermy, fossils and minerals. The crown jewels are a meteorite which was formed at…
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New stay and National Park Weerribben
We left our lovely stay in Putten, said goodbye to our hostess and a few hours later we arrived at our next stay in Zwolle. New stay This stay is a farm that’s build on a mount. We get to stay in the front of the house and are allowed to use its massive garden. The owner and his wife are staying in the other side of the house and have their own private garden aswell. For the next ten days we will be staying here. Not too bad right?! National Park Weerribben This Park is actually called Weerribben – Wieden because it’s divided in two pieces. For every park…
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Veluwe Zoom, day 2
We decided, after enjoying the first hike so much, to go for another day of hiking in the beautiful Veluwe Zoom national park. We hiked for about seven kilometers and this time we actually saw some wildlife! Besides the noisy people. Last trip This concluded another great day in the outdoors. It was also our last trip while staying in the Veluwe, as we are heading up north in a few days. Its been great being here and we would definitely like to return again some day. See you next week from a new temporary home near Zwolle!
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Elburg and Harderwijk
For some of you these two places are pretty much in your backgarden. We’ve never been there before. Especially Elburg seemed very interesting and we decided to spend a day checking them out. We started in Elburg. This is a small city located within ancient fortified walls and next two large lakes, which used to be part of the Northsea. It was very nice to walk around and explore its narrow streets. We were also in luck as it was the first day of the church tower being open for the public. For a measly 1,50 euro you could climb the tower and have a great view across the city.…
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Travel Calendar
Hi ! Just a quick update today about our website and the plans for the coming period. We’ve added some links in the top menu. The most important one is the Travel Calendar. Whenever we book a new trip we will add it also to this calendar. Normally we will not always plan ahead as much, but when we do you will find it in this calendar. We also want to keep track of some statistics and show them to you. For example how far we’ve travelled from location to location and by what means, car, boat, plane etc. We also would like to give you some insights to our…
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Strasbourg and Ardennes
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Hoge Veluwe – Round 2
We had some down time the past few days, mostly due to a combination of bad weather, covid vaccinations and some personal work projects. The weather was shaping up again yesterday and we decided to go back to the Hoge Veluwe park. We had not seen a few places yet. Kröller-Müller Museum In the park we took the free white bicycles and rode to the Kröller-Müller Museum. This museum was build in the middle of the park and owned the art collection of the Kröller-Müller family. It hosts one of the most largest collections of van Gogh. We walked faster through the pieces of art then we wanted, because it…
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Arriving in Putten and sand sculptures
We departed from Haastrecht and arrived a hour later in Veenhuizen that’s close to Putten. We were welcomed by the owners of the house where we’ll stay in for the next three weeks. The house The house has a relaxing area in the shade at the back of the garden and a parking spot for our car. It’s also has a dinner table outside with a parasol and a big as television. This is a nice place where we can stay for a while. The place also comes with two bicycles for us to use. Cycling We went for a little ride on our bikes and were gone for four…
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Next two months
We promised to show you our schedule. Itinerary 14th of June 2021, Putten NetherlandsWe have to say goodbye to our place in Haastrecht. The place we will stay in next is near the town Putten. We already have a route map and bikes. So there will be lots to do and to see. And offcourse we’ll be working at our own hobby’s. 5th of July 2021, Zwolle NetherlandsFor a short period of time we will stay in a farm that’s on a mound, that’s actually a tiny house. It’s in the north of Zwolle. We want to visit Giethoorn and we hope it’s not to busy. 15th of July 2021,…
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Castle quest
Ellen’s mom was born in a little castle in Meeuwen and because of the family legacy we decided to go there. We tried to contact the company who owns it, but they didn’t wanted to let us in “because of the Covid-19” they said. We almost abandoned the idea. Luckily we decided to push on and instead of just one castle, we added some extra. Also, we got a “new” car! This would be the perfect trip to take it to the test. Castle Meeuwen First we drove to castle Meeuwen, which is, for castle standards, a pretty new and small building. This is the birthplace of Ellen’s mom. For…
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Haastrecht – Home for the next 2 weeks
As you might have read, we settled into a new temporary home. It’s an old shed converted to living space at Tim’s parents property. It’s still under contruction in some parts but mostly very comfortable. While we are here we plan to relax and enjoy the silence of the countryside. We will do some hiking, biking and fishing and ofcourse planning our next steps. Today we did go and hike a bit in the surrounding area where we took these shots. During the afternoon we got some action, one of Tim’s dad’s bee colony decided to swarm and needed to be caught again. These bees will typically swarm whenever a…
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