Thank you Philipp Franz von Siebold!
He was one of the first Europeans to teach Western medicine in Japan in the nineteenth century. Philipp Franz…
Ten myths about The Netherlands
That small country near the sea, that is mostly occupied by weed smoking people, who walk on wooden shoes….
Who is this year’s hero?
Heroes come in different shapes and forms. When my daughter first assigned me as her personal superhero, I was…
And now, business as usual?
The commemoration of the 75-year liberation of Auschwitz is over. We all heard and saw the stories of those…
I thought about The Day the Music Died
Triggered by an article in the Dutch newspaper Het Parool I thought about The Day the Music Died. This happened long before I was born. People are still talking about the tragic accident of 3 February 1959. Why is that?
The way we camped
When I was four-years-old, I learned what it was like to camp. This was the first year that I…
It was always there and will always be there…
27 January 2020 is the day we pay our respect to the victims of the Holocaust. On this day…
Flashback to the year 2000 in photography
In another blog, I made a promise to write about one of my passions. It might be the biggest…
