Anniversary Celebrations in Veere

Crossing the water works of Zeeland on my trip from Amsterdam to Veera, I contemplated on how many storms a marriage of 50 years has to endure before it's celebrated. It needs an extraordinary sized bottle of champagne for sure, good friends next to family, and a nice meal. All ingredients were present and we had a good time. It was nice to see all those pictures of long years back and share memories of later years. Once more, many congratulations!

Time for champagne!

With Bart and Mariska

At dinner

In the streets of Veere

I AMsterdammed Last Week

The first day of my short celebration visit to The Netherlands was to Amsterdam, to meet Camila and Freek joining for dinner. We stayed at the beautiful Prinsengracht, in Pulitzer. And had a nice dinner (together with Kiki) at Scheltema, one of those typical Amsterdam cafes.

Freek and Camila at Scheltema

Double espressos at NRC

Hotel room view of Prinsengracht

Traveling to Holland

On Delhi airport, waiting for a plane to Brussels. This week celebrations on the special day of 9th May; 50th anniversary of my parents. And so I'm traveling to The Netherlands.

Very strange "to be in India without crossing the border". It somehow makes it very explicit how much more I miss India than I thought earlier. But not the security checks ...