Fracas Noir – Susanne Waldau – te Brake ~ for better or worse

Summer has really hit Holland, and for once it’s real summer. It’s hot, hot, hot and I suddenly find myself without a proper summer working waredrobe. If it wasn’t for an account in C minus I would’ve gone on a shopping spree, because it’s sales. Instead I find myself planning a weekend of dinner and [...]

I was not anticipating a 2 week blog stop when I left Holland for the south of France. For weeks we had discussed, agonized over and debate a possible holiday. Our holiday to Gran Canaria was cancelled due to the Icelandic volcano eruption and with a new job it didn’t seem like the best timing [...]

So when you’re finally on the roll for going on a holiday, things don’t look so certain any longer. As weeks becomes days, and days becomes hours in vacation count-down, work is piling up…fast. So when Reinout comes in this morning and suggest we go for a drink and visit the Kermis (Dutch word for [...]

And as I finally thought we were all set for a holiday on Gran Canaria, an Icelandic volcano decides to erupt. WTF!! How much bad luck can you have? I’ve been working on leaving this country for the past 2 weeks and when we finally book our holiday last night, it looks like it’s in [...]