This is the Brazil itinerary we have drawn so far on the map in our kitchen. Hopefully we will have better weather than last time we...

Surpise! Despite lock down and economic crisis, my second -mostly autobiographical- book has been accepted by Letras del Sur, contract...

Day 115 and only yesterday did I realize that the local version of Sanitary and Social Distancing recommendations was different! It...

D 111 of lock down... I tend to spend a little more time reading the Sunday paper these days and this week I was reminded of the...

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...