Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Feb 8, 2012, 6:04 am
The logo of the event - their website is going up today with all the information: Zwolse GrachtentochtWhile we continue to wait for a decision from the rayonhoofden (I just love that word, which in Dutch means "district chiefs") up north in the province of Friesland to see if we will finally have an...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Feb 6, 2012, 4:22 am
It's cold out here in the east of the Netherlands. View of some farms in the outskirts of Zwolle.  Ever since winter decided to come back to the Netherlands last week, I have noticed a remarkable increase in the number of hits on my Elfstedentocht posts here in the blog. No surprise there, actually...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Feb 3, 2012, 6:48 am
 The temperatures have  dropped considerably during the last couple of days here in the Netherlands and out there it finally feels like a real winter. So, when the cold winter blows, the thermometre drops several lines below the 0°C mark, and you get home chilled to the bone from the street, you...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jan 30, 2012, 9:57 am
He has been standing there for quite some time now - tall, slim, transparent and green...a bit in the way actually, right in the middle of the Grote Markt in Zwolle.  The first time I saw him I was not particularly charmed by his presence. I hoped with all my heart that he had somehow chosen this p...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Aug 10, 2011, 5:58 pm
La peatonal in the city centre of CórdobaAll the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players ... goes the saying and this is what I think whenever I am walking down the pedestrian area in Córdoba. If there is a "stage" in this city, a place where you can watch life in all its glory ...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jun 27, 2011, 4:38 am
Sweet mouthfuls from my Córdoba (si prefieres leer este post en español, por favor, sigue este enlace)A batch of my alfajores cordobeses filled with cherry jamHere's some advice for you: if a colleague from work, a neighbour, your cousin, your best friend or even a certain blogger contact of yours...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jun 19, 2011, 4:42 pm
(para leer este post en español, sigue este enlace) Actually, I first spotted this beer here in the Netherlands - at the café/restaurant De Belgische Keizer (the Belgian Emperor) in Zwolle, to be more precise. But during our recent mini-vacation in the Ardennes in Belgium, we stopped at the taver...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jun 10, 2011, 8:08 am
(Si prefieres leer este post en español, sigue este enlace)The piers and slides of the Eastern Scheldt barrier in the province of Zeeland. With the official inauguration of the storm surge barrier in the Oosterschelde (the Eastern Scheldt river) on 4 October 1986, Queen Beatrix declared the Delta P...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - May 15, 2011, 12:13 pm
 (si prefieres leer este post en español, haz clic aquí) A few weeks ago Katie -author of Seashells and Sunflowers- launched an Argentine Recipe Contest on her blog and I decided to enter with a recipe for budín de pan al caramelo, a dessert that is quite popular in Argentinean cooking and which...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - May 5, 2011, 11:27 am
(haciendo clic aquí puedes leer la versión en español)Tulips from the Noordoostpolder in the province of Flevoland. At this time of the year in Holland the fields are transformed into a spectacular display of colour: it is the tulip season! In the months of April and May 10.000 hectares across T...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Apr 18, 2011, 3:48 am
(si prefieres leer este post en español, por favor sigue este enlace) A few days ago my friend Sandra (author of the blog, "Presépio com Vista para o Canal") came to Zwolle for a visit. The plan was to have a lazy lunch and walk around town a little. Since we were having a spell of nice weather w...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Apr 12, 2011, 6:00 am
(Para leer en español, sigue este enlace) In my last blog entry I presented a ritual that my Argentinean friends Elena, Mónica and I started a while ago: all three families spending a day together, cooking and eating Argentinean food. Today, Elena is sharing with us her recipe for one of the dishe...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Apr 7, 2011, 5:52 am
 (si prefieres leer este artículo en español, por favor sigue este enlace) And what is that Argies do best, you may ask? Play football, dance the tango, run a country efficiently? (Allow me a little sarcasm here!) Well no, I was rather talking about having a good time with friends around food - g...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Mar 28, 2011, 2:00 am
"Honey, I hung the kitchen!" (si prefieres leer este post en español, por favor, pincha aquí) If you have never been to The Netherlands, it is very well possible that you think that you can only find canals in Amsterdam. It is true that Amsterdam is known around the world as "The Venice of the No...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Mar 18, 2011, 11:20 am
Si prefieres leer este post en español, sigue este enlace)A view of Plaza San Martín, the cathedral and the cabildo in Córdoba. Photo by Roberto Bowyer.For quite some time now I've been wanting to show you around my hometown in Argentina: Córdoba. It has taken me this long because I couldn't rea...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Mar 10, 2011, 5:20 am
(si prefieres leer este post en español, por favor sigue este enlace)A glorious sunset over the winter dike looking towards Zalk (Overijssel)A couple of Sundays ago we decided to pay a visit to an old favourite spot in our former neighbourhood in Zwolle: Westenholte. Situated in the outskirts, West...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Feb 25, 2011, 1:00 pm
(si prefieres leer ésto en español, sigue este enlace)One of the Frisian cities that I intend to visit again next spring or summer is the town of Dokkum, which is the northernmost city in the Netherlands and one of oldest towns in the Elfstedentocht - the famous long-distance skating race that tak...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Feb 7, 2011, 4:00 am
(si prefieres leer esta entrada en español, por favor sigue este enlace) A few days ago Argentinean blogger Ana O'Reilly, author of A pinch of this, a dash of that came up with the idea of having a "weddings around the world" blog series. When she contacted me with the suggestion of posting simult...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jan 17, 2011, 2:00 am
(si prefieres leer esta entrada del blog en español, sigue este enlace)The peatonal, or pedestrian shopping area in Córdoba, Argentina.On occasion of the last elections that took place here in The Netherlands in June last year, the difficulties that had to be overcome in order to form a new Dutch ...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jan 1, 2011, 7:08 pm
... with my feet in the IJssel*(si prefieres leer este post en español, por favor sigue este enlace)First sunset of 2011 by the Buitenwaarden Wijhe (Overijssel). Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you had good fun celebrating New Year's Eve and that you welcomed 2011 in high spirts and good health! A...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Dec 28, 2010, 2:30 am
 (si prefieres leer este post en español, por favor sigue este enlace) Once again I spent the Christmas holiday in the Netherlands, far from Argentina, summer heatwaves, and (sadly) from my family. But it was not as bad as it probably sounds - spending Christmas in the Netherlands always gives me ...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Dec 24, 2010, 3:00 am
At home, we keep Christmas traditions from both sides of the Atlantic.During my recent stay in my home town in Argentina I had the opportunity to attend a concert given by a singer who is originally from Córdoba: Jairo. Born as Mario González in the north of my province (Córdoba, same name as my ...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Dec 22, 2010, 3:01 pm
 (Si prefieres leer esta entrada en español, por favor sigue este enlace) Today I want to share with you a video I received as Christmas greetings from my friend Nicolás. Besides admiring his ability on the rollers and his excellent physical condition, in it you also get to see different sights o...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Dec 20, 2010, 8:21 am
(si prefieres leer este post en español, sigue este enlace). Maybe you have been lately throwing little stones at my window, trying to draw my attention, wondering where I was? Little Stones at my Window Once in a while joy thro...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Oct 1, 2010, 2:00 am
hacer clic aquí, si prefieres leer esta entrada en ESPAÑOL Autumn has set in - oh, yes! It is *that* time of the year, again. Days have shortened considerably, the skies do not always look bright and woolly but mostly grey and dull,  though there have been exceptionally pretty skies like these ca...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Sep 21, 2010, 2:00 am
 Para leer esta entrada en español, hacer clic aquí. view of the lakes and mountains from the top of Mt. Campanario, Bariloche. Since many of those reading this blog have asked me in the past to post about Patagonia, I thought that there was no one better qualified to tell you about this distant...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Sep 13, 2010, 2:00 am
Middelburg City Hall or Stadhuis of Middelburg, built 1452-1520.In our tour of the southern province of Zeeland, we used the capital, Middelburg, as our base to explore the region. This relatively small city (approximately 48.000 in.) was for us a pleasant surprise and we dedicated our first day in ...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Sep 6, 2010, 2:00 am
It's a small world,  isn't it? Just about a month ago I spent a day in Almere with Blogger pal Sandra, author of Presépio com Vista para o Canal. We had a fantastic time visiting a special photo exhibition and enjoying lunch together in the city centre which served to prove once more that Sandra i...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Aug 30, 2010, 4:14 pm
The beautiful gardens of Ijlst The third stop in our attempt to follow the route of the Elfstedentocht -the ice skating race traditionally taking place in the northern province of Friesland- brought us to the quite small but picturesque town of Ijlst. Ijslt or Ddryts in the Fries language, is one o...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Aug 6, 2010, 9:00 am
A beautiful summer day at the beach in Urk, province of Flevoland.Summer in the Netherlands is the best season of the year to travel around and get to see and experience all the cultural aspects of this incredible country. From north to south, west to east, the whole country seems to come out of its...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jul 27, 2010, 8:38 am
The beautiful and ever changing skies of Zeeland (click on photo to see large)One of the things that has always fascinated me about the Netherlands is its historic love/hate relationship with water. Life would be completely different without the ever present allure and threat that water represents f...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jul 20, 2010, 7:44 am
click on the photo to see largeToday is one of those days  when I would love to be back home, in Argentina: it's 20 July - Friend's Day. Día del Amigo or Friend's Day is a very important celebration in Argentina and Uruguay. On 20 July 1969, the whole world united while watching the images of the...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jul 12, 2010, 6:02 am
School is over! Classes are over and the school year has come to an end. At this time of the year, all over The Netherlands you see this: In the month of June, students all over the country start receiving the results of their final exams and soon, the streets become lined up with Dutch flags and...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jul 11, 2010, 9:43 am
... It isn't hard to do. Good luck to the Netherlands in the World Cup Final! (Though I confess that I won't be altogether disappointed if Spain wins - I am afer all, 75% Spanish although born in Argentina!)
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jul 6, 2010, 9:09 am
Córdoba de la Nueva Andalucía Cathedral in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. Photo by Roberto Bowyer For the last couple of weeks I have been planning to write a post about Córdoba, my hometown in Argentina. It is, I think, a long due tribute to the city where I was born and where I lived many ye...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jun 10, 2010, 2:00 am
Harlingen: harbour town by the shores of the Wadden Sea The harbour town of Harlingen, in the province of Friesland. Last year I started a series I called Our own Elfstedentocht to show you the province of Friesland in the northern part of The Netherlands. The idea was to post pictures of the ci...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jun 7, 2010, 5:12 am
Don't worry - I haven't had anything strange for breakfast this morning and I haven't become insufferably arrogant, conceited and spoilt all of a sudden! It's only that I have received a very nice award: It came from sweet Sandra, from the blog "Presépio con Vista para o Canal" who nominated me an...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jun 4, 2010, 2:00 am
Train station in Almere city. A few days ago I received an invitation from a fellow blogger that I could not resist: a day out in Almere, a city at about 85 km from Zwolle. I had made a mental note to visit this part of the Netherlands many times, but somehow the opportunity to go there never presen...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - May 31, 2010, 4:32 am
The part where I tell you what's been going on: I know: you haven't seen me much around on Blogger lately. It is not that I have been very lazy, or lost interest in the wonderful blogs I used to follow or disappeared from Bloggersphere altogether - not at all! My absence was due to medical reasons ...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Feb 15, 2010, 7:07 am
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Feb 15, 2010, 7:07 am
Part of the medieval walls that used to protect the city of Maastricht Apparently, it all started when, right at the beginning of thre present era, the Romans drove the Celtic tribes out of this area of Limburg and built a bridge across the river Meuse (Maas, in Dutch language) . Maastricht or Mest...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jan 20, 2010, 3:13 am
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jan 20, 2010, 3:13 am
Last December and the first part of this month of January were particularly cold here in the Netherlands and in Europe in general. There was a lot of snow and frost, too. Everything looked really pretty and with it happening around Christmas time, I think it was a bit magical! Now all the snow and t...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jan 12, 2010, 7:37 am
Miep Gies in 2001, she used to receive thousands of letters from all over the world. Source photo: Miep Gies Official Site Those were the words of Miep Gies, one of the friends that helped the family of Anne Frank hide from the Germans during the Second World War. On 4th August 1944, Miep Gies was ...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jan 12, 2010, 7:37 am
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jan 8, 2010, 4:32 am
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Jan 8, 2010, 4:32 am
Sunrise at "Cordón del Plata", in the Andes mountains (Mendoza, Argentina). I would like to start by wishing you a fantastic year 2010 and I hope you all had fun during the holidays! Now all the Season's glitter is over, the Three Kings came all the way from the Far East and left their presents (o...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Dec 29, 2009, 8:23 am
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Dec 29, 2009, 8:23 am
The National Flag Memorial in the city of Rosario, Argentina. Before leaving the Netherlands for my annual visit to Argentina, I thought it might be a good idea to ask you, the readers, what you already knew about the country and to run a sort of quizz with photos and questions. I was pleasantly s...
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Aledys Ver posted an article on From Argentina to the Netherlands, for love! - Dec 24, 2009, 10:41 am
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