Meppel Travel Blogs

This year, like every year, Sinterklaas arrived in Meppel by boat. Acually there were three boats, the first one with Zwarte Pieten, the second with Sinterklaas and more Zwarte Pieten, and the third with even more Zwarte Pieten! It always takes a while for the boats to enter the city as they have t…

As this was my first time in Spain I had some ideas about what the place would be like. Most of these turned out to be true. Now I know Seville is only a small part of the country but I will happily go back to see more of Spain, although I would not go back to Seville for the simple reason that I h…

Living in the Netherlands since September 2003, I have been to mostly big cities in this beautiful country, there are still lots of places yet to explore. Here I begin my journey of exploration…………   I’d arranged to meet up with Patricia to visit her in her hometown Meppel i…

This was the Donderdag Meppeldag which I had been looking forward to the most. The theme was one I really liked, first of all because I visited Spain for the first time this year and really loved it. Secondly it was a new theme and most of the other themes had been repeated quite a few times. So ex…

“Man oh man!” Such a luxury to wake up in a proper bed.  No laminate floorboards.  No Greek men lying by my side :)  I did though awake sometime in the middle of the night to the experience of rain lashing viciously against the window-panes.  Slightly ajar.  Thunde…

Wouldn't you know it, the lights on my bike both broke so I had to get some new ones. By law you have to have working lights on your bike in The Netherlands. So I got a new reflector for the back with a built in light which is battery operated, and a front light which also works on batteries. …

Today I went to a mini meet-up in Kampen organised by JP-NED (Jan). As Kampen is one of the Hanseatic cities (Hanzesteden) the attendees started a discussion about which cities in The Netherlands are Hanzesteden. Most thought there were about five of them so when I had some time on m…

As Petra and Lieke had decided to take the whole day off we had agreed to start the meet-up early in Meppel. Petra got to my place first and we caught up a little bit and talked about Petra's recent holiday to Florida. Then Lieke arrived and Reagan got home from school afterwards, so we decide…

One might not necessarily define culture as food, but as food can be defining in what we are and how we look I though it worthy of comment. It seems to me that each race of people and in many different places have ways that define who they are. Some beliefs are based on religion others certain …

Today Donderdag Meppeldag was all about cacophony. In other words: noise. This meant there were a lot of percussion bands, but there was more than that. I went into town and the first band I saw was FunFare. Three guys dressed in funny clothes with fake moustaches, drums and a big horn. They were q…

I visited Meppel and stayed with my Ex, Patricia (Trish is what I call her) over Xmas to spend some time with her and our children before I was to leave to go back to Australia. I had lived in Meppel before with Trish and the kids, but this was 3 years ago when we first moved here and not as co…

This was one of my last days with my girls before I ventured to Scotland... so we went to the park for the afternoon. We went to a big park in Meppel that surround a lake, I have no idea what the name is, but I'm sure Trish will remind me at some stage. We fed the ducks and other animals with some …

So after our 3 day layover in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, we continued our journey to the Netherlands, where Trish is from. We had just over two weeks here to catch up with friends and family before headinjg back to the warth of Australia. In the middle of this period Trish's Grandfather had rented a…

TB meet-up in Giethoorn

On the way from Australia to The Netherlands we had a 3-day stopover in Kuala Lumpur. Still figuring out all the dates, so please forgive the mix-up of them for now...