Sunday, December 20, 2009

Ik mis Holland

Saw pictures of white lowland.
Started listening to Dutch songs again.
Reading Dutch book (!)

man.. ik ben veranderd..

4 comments:

colson said...

Mis je Nederland? Meaning you are elsewhere in the world?

Well, it's been four years since we had a similar amount of snow actually. The scenery here at the heuvelrug in the province of Utrecht, is really, really beautifull indeed. Great pictures. And, most important: my little granddaughter loves it.

I guess we've got 25cm of snow. It's funny though that what fifty or sixty years ago caused little or no trouble, now almost brought the country to a standstill.

(Btw: if you don't mind me asking: which book, what author?)

triesti said...

yupe.. I am elsewhere:)

I saw pic in front of my old place, I think the last time I saw that much snow was the day of my surgery back in 2001!! Even four years ago we didnt have that much snow at my place.

I am reading an old book by steven pont: Alle liefde is economie. Was thinking about rereading Het Lelietheater by Lulu Wang, but that book is soooooo depressing. I didnt managed to finish it the last time I tried reading it. Have you read it?

colson said...

Actually, no I didn't. To me the book-of-the-year isn't Dutch and even isn't a novel: Arundhati Roy's "Listening to Grass-hoppers".

Tommy Wieringa's book "Joe Speedboot" (from 2005) is my Dutch favorite of this century up till now, by the way.

triesti said...

oh I enjoyed Arundhati Roy's other book The God of small Things.

so far, I also enjoy Adriaan van Dis