Our little daughter turned 16 !!! A big event today and the friends got the daytime exclusiveness with Sarah, so we organized the family evening and celebrated with a cake, champagne and a very philosophical discussion on…..if we remembered when we turned sixteen? For Mum it was probably shuttling on a bus between Kikwit, [...]
April is approaching and we are heading into the hottest month of the year. So what else is there to do than wake up very early, have a breakfast at the Riverside and plan for an event of maximum two hours. By 11 am it is too hot to be outside. This Saturday we [...]
Waw, we have been silent for two months on the blog. This does not mean we have not been active, on the contrary. The months of December and January still kept us busy with finding the niches and routines in the big and enormous house we live in. Sebastien has become an adventurous explorer. He [...]
Delhi is sizzling with a high day temperature. The maximum recorded last week was two degrees above the average at 43 degrees Celsius. The minimum in the morning was 30 degrees Celsius, three degrees above the average for this time of the year, yet we still call the mornings pleasant. The high humidity level, recorded [...]
This morning we went strolling in a small park close to our house, where we discovered purely by accident, the remains of the Siri Fort. In fact the city of Delhi was built during the rule of Ala-ud-Din Khalji of the Delhi Sultanate and to defend the city from the onslaught of the Mongols, the [...]
Happy New Year…. we are preparing to complete 4 years in India. Unfortunately we could not get the family together for a picture. I therefore collated some photo’s with at least one family member on it. That should do the trick. Gelukkig Nieuwjaar …. We gaan naar 4 jaar in India, maar deze keer konden [...]
Sarah’s Great Day…. Today was the 8th grade Moving Up ceremony and Sarah was one of the 101 girls and boys from the American Embassy school who finished Middle School and are moving into High School next year. The moving up goes with a big official ceremony in the school. We all noticed that Sarah [...]
Believe it or not but Sarah turned 14 yesterday. Reason to celebrate….
