You must have lived very close to where I live!Talking about Leeuwarden reminds me of the wonderful time I lived in Nederland. I moved to a farm just outside Leeuwarden in 1959 to live with my Dutch fiance's parents. I lived and helped on the farm for 3 months and learned to speak Dutch, then moved to Heemstede near Haarlem to work as a Nanny. We married in the town hall there and later moved to Amersfoort. I cherish the 2 years I spent there. Back to the food. I have beef stew today and enough for tomorrow for both my granddaughter and me. I have ham, eggs, beetroot, cottage cheese and salad for tea.
Deliberately didn't check it would probably have had an impact but was a treat - I normally stick to black - and had only had kefir and nuts until the coffee in the afternoon so felt I had some leeway. I knew too my only proper meal was going to be late.
Goodness @Annb, that phobia took hold early in life. For me, the spiders would have been at least as interesting as the breakfast, but we won't go there.Best part about the hotel was the breakfast. I'd never seen bread and chocolate for breakfast and thought it a wonderful invention of the Dutch.
How interesting! @Antje77 It's good to know that uniquely Dutch tradition has persisted.Bread and chocolate sprinkles are still a very common breakfast in the Netherlands for both children and adults. Any hotel in the Netherlands will have sprinkles right next to the peanut butter, jam, and cheese to put on your bread. It tastes especially good on fluffy white bread with a generous amount of butter, haven't had it in at least 10 years though.
Thanks for the tip @maglil55!@filly - we get Mrs Elwood's Haimisha gherkins. Tesco always seem to have them, as do most of the big supermarkets. It does say they should be eaten in a ridiculously short time once opened, but both my DIL and I ignore that. We keep them in the fridge, they're pickled, and we still use them a couple of weeks later with no I'll effects. Note: it has to be the Haimisha one. They have a straight Mrs Elwood's but that's packed with sugars.View attachment 66862View attachment 66863
Well I never @Antje77. It's a small world!
Hard to say. There are and have been quite a lot of shipyards in and around Leeuwarden, it's close to the seaport of Harlingen.@Antje77, do you happen to know where the shipyard to which Tom's ship went for dry docking would have been? It wouldn't have been far from Leeurwarden.
Harlingen sounds familiar. Maybe it was there.Hard to say. There are and have been quite a lot of shipyards in and around Leeuwarden, it's close to the seaport of Harlingen.
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