Travelog for: Snowy

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Unfortunnaly the snow was gone after a few hours yesterday. But they predict snow for tomorrow so maybe i can play in it again!

Today we went to Den Helder to visit Eva her grandma.
Den Helder has ever started with the arising of Huisduinen, a whaler village. Gradually it developed into Den Helder which we know now. A city which was built within the linies of the forten. Later formed a number of districts there around. The space between the different town parts is characteristic. Den Helder is a city with a strongly maritime screen. Sea-going, the rescue being, the offshore and the royal Navy natural.

The Navy has stipulated many years' the image of Den Helder. But the Navy shrank in, Den Helder threatened to become a city with no face. By nourishing the culturehistory , the tales of the seaman and with that the coherent heroiek Den Helder has rediscovered its own core values.

Eva told me this while i was watching the ship-building yard.
You can see the bouldings of it on my right hand.







Here you can see the dikes and this is also the road that leads you to the boat that brings you to the island Texel.


Here you got the water tower of Den Helder.



This is the sculpture of freedom


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A new TV arrived today. We came home from Den Helder and while we were eating the doorbell rang. It was the mail man. We saw a big envelope. What could be in it?


It is a big yellow mouse! His name is Marcello.


He hasn't eat so we all decided to give him a slize of our pizza.
After dinner we sit together at the couch and talk about everything. It's great to have an other friend here!



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Today we had a white easter! How great is that?






After that we went to Bergen to see animals. A terrible accident happened there.
Marcello wants to get on a picture with a ostrich. We all didn't know this was gonna be his last minute with us. Suddenly the ostrich took Marcello out of Eva her hand. We tried everything to get him back but it was to late.
He died bravely.
Rest in peace little Marcello mousse!

This is the ostrich that took Marcello from us:


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After we get over our big lost we went to the Ruinechurch in Bergen.
This picturesque ruin church in Bergen once was the biggest church in Noord-Holland. From the 16th century church there is only a ruin left now, because the Beggars started a fire here. Only the choir of the church was rebuilt, so from the original church you can now only see the ruins.
In the village Bergen in Noord-Holland there are many beautiful old houses situated around the old village church.









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Today we went to the woods to enjoy the nature and play hide and seek. Palmeke was the first who hide himself.
We searched for hours.
At the end he get a little bit compassionnate with the us and called us. We found him soon after that.
After Palmeke I was the one who had to hide myself. They searched everywhere but finnaly Mirdin found me. I was really clever because I hide in the same tree
Meleleuca hide also in the same tree but this time we were prepared for that and found him in 10 minutes. We had so much fun!



It was beautifull in the woods.

When we got home Eva asked us if we want to help her. We asked her what she want from us. But is was a fun idea! She want to paint eggs with us.
This is the result:


Eva had another suprise for us. She hide a chocolate egg for each one of us.
I found one in the budha


I had a great easter day!

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Today Eva have bought clay for us. We made a green elephant of it. I think the result is great!



Cool elephant don't you think

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Today we decided to watch this house closely what we can do here.

Firstly we find a coffeemachine and make delicious coffee



After that Meleleuca made music for us. He's really a supertalent! We had tears in our eyes because it was so beautifull


We wanna laugh after that and watch King of queens with dutch subtitles. It was so funny!


We really wanna do something active after the coffee, music and watch tv so we played hide and seek.

Can you spot me?

We found a magazine called Mijn geheim. If you translate is it called my secret. People who have a big secret can tell it here and nobody knows who you are. We read the most shocking stories about cheating but also sweet stories about people who find their great love.


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Do i need to say more?

Mirdin got his hair cut but he was a little bit nervous so as reward Eva her ex husband took us all to the Mac

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Today we got a little bit bored so we went on a search in the house.
Palmeke and i found some real nice gnomes and asked them what we could do. Meleleuca asked it to a real nice lady.



The gnomes and lady told us that if we want we can go to a whole other world. We didn't understand what they are meaning with that so we wanna know more about that.
They all pointed to a spot in the room.
Are they joking?? They pointed at a book-case. We decided to go in the book-case because maybe it had a secret door or something.


We tried to find it but it didn't worked. We still had no idea were to find that other world. We watched all the books and found many books of Stephen King.


We decided that we wanna read something but Stephen King is to scary for us with his stories about good and evil and clowns who do nasty things with childrens.
Suddenly we understand what the gnomes and lady try to tell us. When you read a book your in a whole other world!
Thank you dear gnomes and nice lady!

Here we are reading about Appie. When Eva was a child she read this books all the time. They are very old and you can't find them anymore in the stores. Maybe in a store were they sell old books.

So now we are in a world about Appie. When you read his stories it's almost as if you are with him and his friends.
Hoe great is that?

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Today we went to Alkmaarderhout. This park is a part of an old forest with many old trees. You will find an animal farm and the prison.


First we feed the ducks.


While we were feeding the ducks two beautifull black swans come our way. They made such magical sounds.


Their were a lot of other funny animals. Unfortunately the animal farm wasn't open so we couldn't get in but we can see and feed the animals from behind the gate.


This goats really want some bread.

Mirdin showed us how to feed a deer. We were all a little bit scared that a deer bite in our fingers.




We also see the jail. It is called 'Schutterswei'. This prison is for men. The prison for women is in Heerhugowaard. That's a town near Alkmaar.


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Today we went to the shopping centre in Heerhugowaard, a town near Alkmaar.

Here we arrived at the parking place


The shopping centre called Middenwaard and is covered


You can find many shops here


Eva can really shop a lot! I didn't feel my feet anymore so Eva offered to carry me in her bag.
Here you can see the plaza with the council-house and a funny spot were weather gushed out of the ground. You didn't see it clear on the picture unfortunally


When we finnaly got home we decided to make a nice meal for everyone.

Can you allready see what is it?



It's a delicious bread with pizza toppings in it


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The love of cooking is rising!
The last time was so much fun that we decided to do it again. We search at internet for a formula. We found one that sounds great.

Our first step was make the tomatoes (tomaten) hollow


The next step was putting cheese (kaas) in it


After that we cookes egs (eieren) and spinach (spinazie)


This was our delicious result:


We went to the woods of Bergen again after dinner. We really love the woods now. It's very calm there and you can find such beautifull trees to climb in.




Look at this great view:


After that Eva learned me how to ride a bike.
It was scary! But i also love to do it! Fortunate for me the bike has wheels on the frame. So i kept well in balance.
Look at me!


When i'm home a want a bike for myself. You feel the wind and you can go fast if you want. I notice that in Holland nobody wear a helmet for safety. Everybody here rides on a bike and the people learn it to there children almost before they can walk. I looked my eyes out.


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Today we asked Eva to show us two typical dutch sites. We start with a mill.


Here i am in front of the Molen van Piet. Actually it called Molen de Groot but the family Piet lives here for a lot of years so it became the Molen van Piet. This is the last mill you can find in the town centre.

After that we went to a coffeeshop. It was pretty exciting to see this. I didn't smoke, don't worry, because i was a little bit scared of it. Eva told us you get a strange feeling when you do this.


When we took the pictures we start walking back to the car but a man stormed out of the coffeeshop and start screaming to us why the **** we were making pictures of him. Luckely Eva was calm and explain to the man why we did it. He said some nasty things and walked back into the coffeeshop. We were all very glad we didn't smoke, because if this is the result...

After that we wanna do something with less risk.
We went to the Big church in Alkmaar.

During building the largest medieval church in Alkmaar, the church was already called the big church, because of its size. The big church is not only the largest and highest church in Alkmaar, but also the church which trough the centuries, stood most and called the jewel of the city. Originally the church was dedicated to Saint Laurens. That’s why, for centuries, the church is called The Saint Laurenschurch.

The church was probably designed by architect Anthonius Keldermans (Belgium) (1440-1512)

Beside Anthonius Keldermans brother, also his son was involved in the disign of the church, in which 26 freestanding columns support the roof. The Saint Laurens church is a basilica,

The outside walls rest on a fundation which is just below the ground. Built in the Brabant’s gothic style, which is bigger and more massive in its form than the French gothic. The building is 35 meters high and has a cross length of 85x56 meters. The outside walls rest on a one meter broad foundation which is just below thethe ground, and gradually becomes broader to a depth of tree meters. The last resauration of in-and exterieur was accomplished in 1996.

The large saint Laurens church counts two, world famous organs: Van Covelens organ (also called choir organ) and it VanHagerbeer/Schnitger or large organ. The choir organ descends from 1511 and has been placed against the northern wall of the church. The last restoration of this old, still playable, organ in the Netherlands, was completed in the year 2000. In 1636 arose the idea for the construction of a large organ in the church. Several organ builders have worked on it, but in 1645 Jacobus Caltus van Hagerbeer completed the large organ. Jacob Van Campen devised the organ cupboard and in 1643  Caesar Van Everdingen got the task to paint the doors of the organ cupboard with the ‘triomfe van den Coninck Saul’. This painting belongs to his first large work. Above the organ the painter Romeyn de Hooghe painted in baroque striking, (‘de deugd, die de ondeugd verplettert’)" virtue crushing the vice". From 1723 up to 1725 the large organ was restored and extended by Frans Caspar Schnitger. In course of time there have been several restorations on this organ.




After that we watched the St. Joseph Church in Alkmaar.
This church was put in use in 1910. Designed by famous church builders and students of PJH Cuypers, the Margry brothers. The church is built in neo-gothic style, which shows by the way the towers are placed and by the arched roofs.

The church is placed beautifully and is in possession of wonderful stained glass windows. The statue of Christ has been placed in 1948, in memory of Alkmaar war-victims. Their names are placed on a memorial plaque on the churches wall.


Because of all the siteseeing we get hungry. Eva took us to the Burger King!


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Here i am again. A new TV arrived this evening.
We were sitting on the couch wondering who can be in that envelop.


Suddenly the TV kicked his helmet out the envelop. We were frightened to death!


But he didn't mean to scare us so he jumped out of the envelope to comfort us.


His name is Iggy-Korn

He's such a funny guy!


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Today we went to 'Het Geestmerambacht'.
The recreation area Geestmerambacht, which lies at north of Alkmaar, offers all kinds of possibilities for recreation in natural surroundings.
There's a nature area and a big lake and many many more, but we want to see the lake.






Unfortunate it was to cold to swim in the lake otherwise i did it immediatelly!

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