Month: June 2019

‘And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there, a grayling.’ (Not the Secretary of State for transport, obviously!) These lines by Tennyson are inscribed on a signpost alongside the River Witham in Lincolnshire, UK. The Lincoln to…

This sign is all over Wijk bij Duursted and the surrounding villages, plus the information that 89% of people said ‘No’ to a local windfarm. I don’t understand why, unless it’s NIMBYism. The NL are usually very keen on wind…

Literally ‘small, round pastry’  and this is the Dutch name for a cupcake. One of the things we like to do here is talk to Dutch people and language is one of the things we often talk about. On of…

There’s a lot of it about. Every place we visit has some sort of ‘exposition’, even if it’s only information boards and plaques. The Dutch want you to know what you’re looking at or walking past, why it’s there and…