G'day from Holland

[murph1]

Welcome aboard

 

[Brant]

Might be fun to have a look at HAC Wezup - Home for an impression. The site should be updated again.

I just checked it out and the pictures are really amazing and beautiful. Makes me want to come for a visit soon. I hoping to make it to Europe next year.

 

[Fordmajor]

Hello Brant
Might you make it to Holland then you are welcome to come and have look in our small village. Wezup is situated in the province of Drenthe which has a lot of rural country, forrest and rough land like heatherfields. As far as I am concerned the nicest province in Holland. Totally different from North- and South Holland where the big citys like Amsterdam, Den Haag and Rotterdam are located. No traffic yams overhere.
cheers
AJ

 

[Brant]

Hello Brant
Might you make it to Holland then you are welcome to come and have look in our small village. Wezup is situated in the province of Drenthe which has a lot of rural country, forrest and rough land like heatherfields. As far as I am concerned the nicest province in Holland. Totally different from North- and South Holland where the big citys like Amsterdam, Den Haag and Rotterdam are located. No traffic yams overhere.
cheers
AJ

That is much appreciated and I would love to do that. I just looked on Google satellite images of your area and it looks really nice. It's definitely not the picture of Holland most people have in mind. That's really more my kind of thing anyway, as the tourist areas never show you what a place of really like. As for the trip, NL and DE are at the top of my list for visits because of my family heritage from both countries.

 

[Fordmajor]

G'day Brant
You are right, most non-Dutch people think our small country has citys like Amsterdam and is littered with windmills.
Nice wonder of modern technique is'nt it? I also use Google earth for looking around in other countrys. Never been to Australia but I do know what the street and the house of our good friends overthere look like. Only twenty years ago a conversation like this was not possible. Either you would write a letter or pay a lot of money for a global telephone-call. My great-aunt lived in Chicago and we wrote letters to her and she sent letters back. Usually it took these letters a week to arrive.
Just curious, but from where in Holland did your family originate? .
cheers
AJ

 

[Brant]

G'day Brant
You are right, most non-Dutch people think our small country has citys like Amsterdam and is littered with windmills.
Nice wonder of modern technique is'nt it? I also use Google earth for looking around in other countrys. Never been to Australia but I do know what the street and the house of our good friends overthere look like. Only twenty years ago a conversation like this was not possible. Either you would write a letter or pay a lot of money for a global telephone-call. My great-aunt lived in Chicago and we wrote letters to her and she sent letters back. Usually it took these letters a week to arrive.
Just curious, but from where in Holland did your family originate? .
cheers
AJ

Yes AJ, Google Earth is great. When I travel any distance, I often like to use the satellite images and Streetview to confirm my destination's location on a map. Online maps and GPS (Sat Nav) seem to mess up too often for my liking. I'm a big music fan so sometimes I will check out a venue location in another country just for the fun of it. I'm not sure of your interest in Dutch contemporary music, but bands like Epica, After Forever, Delain, Ayreon, and others are some of my favorites. The mighty Floor Jansen (whom I had the pleasure of meeting last month in the US) is a personal favorite and considered one of the finest and most powerful sopranos in the world.

As for my family, unfortunately the Dutch-born members died before I was born so the info. is not perfect. They were from the southeast area near Germany around Weert and Roermond. When I was a kid, some of my German-born great aunts and uncles were still alive. They were from southern Germany in the Black Forest region near Switzerland.

It's been talking with you so far. Take care.

 

[Brant]

G'day Brant
You are right, most non-Dutch people think our small country has citys like Amsterdam and is littered with windmills.
Nice wonder of modern technique is'nt it? I also use Google earth for looking around in other countrys. Never been to Australia but I do know what the street and the house of our good friends overthere look like. Only twenty years ago a conversation like this was not possible. Either you would write a letter or pay a lot of money for a global telephone-call. My great-aunt lived in Chicago and we wrote letters to her and she sent letters back. Usually it took these letters a week to arrive.
Just curious, but from where in Holland did your family originate? .
cheers
AJ

Yes AJ, Google Earth is great. When I travel any distance, I often like to use the satellite images and Streetview to confirm my destination's location on a map. Online maps and GPS (Sat Nav) seem to mess up too often for my liking. I'm a big music fan so sometimes I will check out a venue location in another country just for the fun of it. I'm not sure of your interest in Dutch contemporary music, but bands like Epica, After Forever, Delain, Ayreon, and others are some of my favorites. The mighty Floor Jansen (whom I had the pleasure of meeting last month in the US) is a personal favorite and considered one of the finest and most powerful sopranos in the world.

As for my family, unfortunately the Dutch-born members died before I was born so the info. is not perfect. They were from the southeast area near Germany around Weert and Roermond. When I was a kid, some of my German-born great aunts and uncles were still alive. They were from southern Germany in the Black Forest region near Switzerland.

It's been great talking with you so far. Take care.