Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Life, Travel, tagged Arabic, culture, fish, Italian, Malta, Maltese, Maltese Falcon, Mediterranean, Order of the Knights of Saint John's, Phoenicians, pre-Stonehenge ruins, Sicilian, travel, wine, World War II on June 6, 2012 | 8 Comments »
The software on my website decided to be difficult, so I wasn’t able to add all the photos of Malta that I wanted to share. For the initial set, please check out Marvelous Malta. Here are the rest, enjoy. BTW, the sun’s come out here in The Hague so obviously the pictures have worked their […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Life, Travel, tagged Arabic, culture, fish, Italian, Malta, Maltese, Maltese Falcon, Mediterranean, Order of Knights of Saint John's, Phoenicians, pre-Stonehenge ruins, Sicilian, travel, wine, World War II on June 6, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Today has been overcast, cool with showers. Correction: make that cold. It’s June 6th and we’ve got the heat on again. There should be some law against requiring heat in the northern hemisphere after June 1st. I’m just saying. Anyway, it got me thinking of sunnier climes. Soon my thoughts turned to Malta. You may […]
Posted in Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Dutch Life, Expat Life, Holidays, Netherlands, September 11th, United States, tagged Americans, Arlington Cemetery, civilians, Dodenherdenking, Dutch, honor, Memorial Day, military, Netherlands, remembrance, Second World War, service members, service to their country, silence, soldiers, Tomb of the Unkown Soldier, tribute, Trilogy to the Dutch, two minutes of silence, ultimate sacrifice, United States, World War II, writing on May 6, 2012 | 10 Comments »
When this week began, little did I know that by the end I would be writing what has essentially become my own personal Trilogy to the Dutch. I’d enjoyed all the excitement and revelry of my third Queen’s Day, stuck again by how virtually everyone gets involved in what is essentially one big party. There’s something about an entire […]
Posted in Doing What I Can to Help, Expat Life, Global Issues, tagged Angelina Jolie, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, refugees, UNHCR, World Refugee Day, World War II on June 20, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Today is World Refugee Day. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR, the international refugee agency), there are 43.7 million displaced persons in the world. Forty four million, when you round up. Forty four million people who aren’t living in their homes because of war, violence, famine or other natural disasters. UNHCR was founded 60 […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Dutch Life, Family & Friends, Light Bulb Moments, Netherlands, Travel, tagged A Bridge Too Far, Allied Forces, Arnhem, John Frost Bridge, paratroopers, World War II on April 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Today will be a slight change of pace in that it will not include anything expat-related, per se. (Yes, it is about traveling in another country, but it’s not specifically about an expat issue.) Nor will I mention writing or any of the other activities or projects I work on. So for those of you […]
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