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• Post #2413209

  Someone back in the US was asking me for my news and I excitedly told him how I had my bike back from the shop and how thrilling it felt after going without a bicycle for TWO WHOLE DAYS. I could practically see his eyes roll back in his head with boredom. I told my Dutch neighbor the same thing and she commiserated, telling me how she couldn't find her bike briefly at the train station and the panic it gave her to imagine not having a bicycle.

• Post #1930261

  My Dad told me a story from a trip he took to Europe with a friend after they both graduated from undergrad, in the early 1960s. His friend had an aunt who ran a convent in Guernsey and she had resisted the nazis during the occupation. This had earned her a lot of appreciation in the nearby parts of France so when they were trying to figure out buying a car to see Europe in, she sent them to a friend in France who had a car dealership. The car dealer showed them some choices and told them the...

• Post #1102108

  Yesterday I was helping my neighbor with her garden and a man walked by, nodding to us. She told me she knew him. She was born in Amsterdam and seems to know pretty much everyone here and I feel extremely lucky to have her as a neighbor. She explained that he is Jona Oberski and he wrote a very famous book about his time in a nazi concentration camp as a child. It is called Kinderjaren. I of course had to buy the English translation. I have barely started it. I am going to have a lot of feel...

• Post #446192

  I ran across this tricycle that can carry as much as a small car today. Definitely the most cargo capacity I have seen so far