A very synchronistic gift came my way last week . One of those ‘coincidences’ that happen for a reason. It was September 17th. I had appropriately written my Dutchbuzz blog for the 18th of September, about ‘Prinsjesdag‘, the traditional every third Tuesday of September public address of the Dutch government announcing its plans for the coming …
As especially the inhabitants of The Hague may have noticed today, the third Tuesday of September, is Prinsjesdag in The Netherlands; the traditional reading of the governments declaration on how the available resources are going to be divided and ruled. The tradition begins with the our local royalty setting off in their glass carriage, in …
Hardly no one needs reminding what day it is today. 9/11 is branded in our memories as the day the world changed. You would think, after the thousands of years and generations humanity spent evolving; we would have learned to live a little bit more at peace with each other ; but instead division and …
In the old days – and by those I mean the days that we were all still living without the help of multinationals, stock markets or pharmaceutical industries- when we travelled; we did that basically to explore ourselves through exploring the world. On a personal level the aim was to observe other ways of …
