Una vida Holandesa en Mallorca

Dacht ik een k* dag te hebben. Slechtnieuws toespraak op het werk, artikel afgewezen in de 2e revisie, baby griep in varkensgriepgebied.........
Maar blijkbaar kan het nog stukken erger vandaag: http://www.rtl.nl/components/actueel/rtlnieuws/miMedia/2009/week18/Thu12... zijn ze nou helemaal gek geworden in NL. Op 1 van de weinige dagen dat de monarchie érgens goed voor is (feestje vieren) pleegt men een aanslag??????!!!

Wat lees ik nu: http://www.nu.nl/algemeen/1955344/spanje-bevestigt-geval-van-varkensgrie..., varkensgriep in Spanje en MALLORCA???? Oh oh. Gelukkig eten we toch bijna geen vlees en zeker geen varken (oeps ik bedenk me opeens dat serrano ham en fuet ook varken zijn..........) en misschien moeten we uit de buurt van het vliegveld blijven voorlopig.... weg vieze toeristen!!!! De inheemse Mallorcanen komen toch niet van hun eiland af, daar geen risico;-)

My mother brought me a front-seat for babies, something non-existent in Spain. And we went for a try-out spin. Yeah!!!!!! Lucas was excited, showing his Dutch genes and babbling the whole time along the boulevard. Next time something a bit further from home, a real excursion or something:-)

Some weeks ago we went on Easter Holiday. It was a real adventure: to get to Italy Giak took the boat with the car and we (the rest of the family) took the plane in the morning. To go back we switched, I drove the car on the boat while the rest went by plane. The disadvantages of living on an island. We drove 2000 km in total, stopping quite often so Lucas could crawl over dirty restaurant floors. We stopped by the restaurant of my brother (cleanest floor I saw;-). Actually it was a big succes, apart from the fact that driving really long hours with babies is not an option everything went perfect. Once in Italy we joined the procession to give the statue of the Christ some air. And the next day there was a show for children. The remaining hours we used to eat and drink and sleep (but that doesn´t mean I am rested after the holidays) and spend with family. My mother-in-law lives in a really beautiful but also a bit rural place: one night a cow got stuck between our parked car and a wall and sat on the hood:-( The garage tried to repair the dented part but hey we live in Spain and actually it gives our super-normal car some ´character´ (and now we finally recognize it;-) Photo´s on Flickr.....

Who wants to enjoy a holiday in a nice apartment in exotic Palma de Mallorca? Big apartment, childcare facilities, big terrace on the south. Nice green neigbourhood, 5 minutes walk from the seafront (harbour), 10 minutes walk to the centre, well connected by bus. Use of car included. Sunshine garanteed. We are looking for a kind of house exchange in the period of end July- half August, part or whole of the period. We are looking for a place to stay in the Netherlands, preferred central (but Groningen is also ok). Our preference is an exchange with friends or acquintances;-)

In case anyone was wondering what happened to the photo´s I submitted in the 23rd Palma foto-maraton (photo competition): One of my pictures (not even the best!) was picked up in a compilation poster. Dissapointing, the exposition, I hoped for more, individual, photos but they just put up a few compilation posters. Bah.

We only woke up once last night:-)
On another note, they brought to my attention this article (they is of course an american dominated women-in-science-group): http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200904/case-against-breastfeeding/3
And I am happy to note not EVERYONE shares the wild enthusiam (or hype) on breast-feeding. Made me feel better, and certainly I feel that the pressure should be reduced on us poor working women that are not breastfeeding (anymore).