From Schiphol Airport, I traveled South to Limburg with two Friends that had come with the 5:43 NS Intercity to pick me up...
End station Horst–Sevenum and we're in the
South of The Netherlands!In less than two hours from Schiphol Airport to Horst–Sevenum by Intercity.
Travel by Rail is so relaxed!
Comparing to the hectic traffic and especially on a Monday.
Sure, my original plan was to arrive on Sunday... but some 3,000 flights got cancelled over that weekend.
My happy friend Ellie (friends for 57 years) and her daughter Elvira...
See links below post for reading about our very special relation with her.
This was on May 31 with 17°C or 62.6°F in Sevenum with a maximum of 18°C or 64°F
Yes, that was quite a cool–down for me; coming from Georgia/USA...
Elvira made us a yummy lunch on Wednesday, June 1.
She's a great Lady Chef
After our lunch at about 14:00, we did video WhatsApp with Pieter in Georgia/USA, who had just had breakfast at 8:00 in the morning.
Always great to see, and hear each other over the 8,000 km distance or 4,970 miles!
Pieter enjoyed talking with Elvira's boys.
The youngest, to the right of me, told Pieter that he had to carefully read all the notes...
They'd just overheard me reply to Elvira about her question what Pieter is eating all those days.
I told them that I'd hung sticky notes from the cabinets in the kitchen for each day for getting the meals together from the freezer and such.
Yes, I'd prepared a lot of food ahead of time!
Ellie's granddaughter Famke is into aerial fabric dancing!
Got to see her doing this LIVE.
Quite impressive and don't know if I could do that?!
Weather for the coming days would be lovely with on Saturday as high as 26°C or 78.8°F but on Sunday all rain...
Friend Sissy in her Tesla electric car, took Ellie and me around my home town and we even sat on a terrace in the sun, enjoying a cappuccino or tea.
Also ice cream with some fruit.
Indulging in those things from the past; for me at least, as I'm out of The Netherlands for 39 years.
Next day we met again with Sissy and Ellie + spouses...
Time for dinner at Restaurant De Kraal in Venlo.
My selection was Heilbot or Halibut in English
And for me also white asperges soup... It still is in season and in the USA we never find them.
My Halibut served over a bed of pasta with a lemon sauce and spinach.
Topped with a fresh Coriandrum sativum.
Edible flowers look beautiful... and yes, I ate them!
Sissy captured this photo of Ellie and me...
So grateful for happy time with friends!
To be continued...
By the way; my humble blog reached 3,500,000 pageviews!
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