read my stories

This my blog page where you will find the latest post on top, and years and years of older posts below.
For a more focused way of reading, you can select the Categories underneath My Articles tab at the top !
Enjoy your stay here and check back once in a while!
Book Reviews

Reading about Dragoon

No, not the soldiers on horses but rather the ‘other’ landing that occurred in France, 2 months after D-Day ! Operation Dragoon was the concerted

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Sunday, October 9, 2016
Aviation

D-Day Airfields – Book Review

Airfields of the D-Day Invasion Air Force (Paperback) 2nd Tactical Air Force in South-East England in WWII By Peter Jacobs A book for researchers, tourists

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Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Book Reviews

New WW2 Book review

One of the things I do regularly these days (what with no TV and more time to read in bed and elsewhere) is review books.

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Thursday, October 22, 2015
Italian Blog

Ik ben een cultuurbarbaar

Ik heb geen geduld (meer) voor muziek, ben 3 keer in mijn leven naar het Concertgebouw geweest, krimp in elkaar bij opera, vind Picasso een

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Sunday, March 29, 2015
Italian Blog

Cotto, the local stones

Good, another step. We have found the hand-made tiles that will go onto our terrace….. the family business at the company below has a great

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Thursday, March 19, 2015
Italian Blog

Bureaucracy ad infinito…..

Italy’s bureaucracy: one step forward, 2 backwards 6 months ago we tried to get Nina admitted as resident, but at the town hall they told

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Saturday, February 14, 2015
General

Fire !

Never a dull day here in our new place in Italy. Today, while I was cutting down some trees in our ‘garden’, suddenly a black

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Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Italian Blog

Watch the arms !

One of the things here in Italy you have to watch out for, is not hurt ladies’ hands while driving through the streets of your

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Saturday, February 7, 2015
France

SOLD !

YESSSSSSS !! Against all odds (we think) we sold our little apartment in the French Alps. We had it for almost 17 years and we

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Sunday, August 31, 2014
Italian Blog

Far and few between

…. blog posts that is. Let me tell you, working and living in two countries doesn’t leave much time to blog on top of it.

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Sunday, August 31, 2014
Italian Blog

We’re moving

Well, we have STARTED to move at least. Just had news from our friends and neighbors in Umbria that the gas/heating system has been fixed…..

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Friday, May 2, 2014
Italian Blog

Stuff that needs sorting

When moving into another place there are many things to be taken care of. When moving into another country, there are many MORE! When we

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Sunday, April 20, 2014
Italy

Eggs ticking !

Or ‘hitting eggs’. A custom I learned about in Romania….. bu not surprisingly its origins lay in Italy since Romania and its language are formed

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Sunday, April 20, 2014
Scale Models

FSClassics Update

In case you do not (yet?) follow my FSClassics website, here’s a post copied from it: Keeping with the idea of  presenting classic aircraft AND

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Sunday, April 20, 2014
Scale Models

Moson Scale Model Show

The Moson Model Show in Hungary is one of the best known shows of its kind in Europe. Unfortunately I cannot visit, but hoping to

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Sunday, April 6, 2014
Flightsim

Low Land Tiger Meet 2014

Yesterday I visited the official opening of the 2014 LLTM (Low Land Tiger Meet), Europe’s largest (military) flightsim LAN-party. The LLTM is an iconic event

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Saturday, April 5, 2014
Italian Blog

How it all started

It is now way up to the end of March 2014 and we have bought a house in Italy. But as the first ‘post’ in

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Sunday, March 30, 2014
Flightsim

Saitek HOTAS X-55

Where I am still happy with my old Saitek X52 HOTAS system, the company has released quite a few new models since. One of them,

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Thursday, March 13, 2014