Exactly 50 years ago, on July 4th 1970, my baby sister Heleen was born in the Netherlands, during our family's summer break. Until a few...

Today is day 104 of the lock-down, and the first day of a new 17 day period of stricter controls to reduce circulation in the Buenos...

You must have seen it : Latin America is now the new epicenter of the pandemic. All news used to be only about Italy, Spain, France and...

Today I asked myself this question: are lock-down clothes like maternity clothes? I mean do you feel like throwing them all away once the...

Today, I would like to introduce you to my compatriot Leonie van Iersel who is a very special person. Leonie used to teach in a secondary...

June 15th, day 88 of lock-down, I am very happy! We had the best weekend: celebrated Alex' birthday on Friday morning with croissants,...

One of the positive things about the lock-down is that people start doing things they had never imagined before, like for example the...

Sunday June 7th, day 80 of Buenos Aires lock-down. This morning we traveled to the UK for breakfast: eggs, bacon, sausage, tomato,...

I wasn't going to post anything today but due to meteorological conditions, my plans were thwarted which gives me two pieces of...

With Covid-19 and grim reports of riots and looting in the US in the background, we are still moving ahead with the plan. Since our goal...

I didn't explicitly mention it in my previous post but using our own airplane, our dear LV-GQF (or rather Lima-Victor-Golf-Quebec-Foxtrot...

So, I am starting to really feel locked-up now, despite the big house and garden (in which I ran 5k last Tuesday, i.e. 45 circles!). On...

Re-posting this text from a few weeks ago because I accidentally deleted it. You have most likely already read it....but I didn't want to...

Apparently lots of people have started making their own bread during lock-down. Our version of making bread is prehistoric outdoors...

Like astronauts do when they are confined in their ship for long periods of time, Alex and I work out on Tuesday and Friday mornings...

I apologize: this post is a little too long but I would like to continue on the thought I ended with last time: I will miss the people of...

On Friday evening, Alberto Fernandez, president of Argentina since December 2019 was due to speak at 8pm to reveal what to expect...

Russia has a reputation of being difficult (or even prohibited) to fly in for foreigners. Luckily, just before the lock-down, I had found...

The plan was (and still is) to leave early 2021. We are going around the world in a small airplane. The idea was born in Paris in April...

May 2nd, 2020. Have been in lock-down in Buenos Aires since March 19th, i.e. for over 6 weeks. Nothing wrong with the location - house...