Roman Holiday

Last week Gosia gave me a nice present for my 50th birthday.

We went the day after my birthday for 5 days to Rome.

Thanks to our great friends Josefien and Sanne who looked after the kids we could go!

It was a great stay in a great city. We had wonderful weather for this time of the year

(20-22 degrees celcius). What a wonderful city it is! So much culture, history, architecture etc etc. With 5 days you had enough time to see all the famous places like the trevi Fountain, The Pantheon, Vatican City, The Colosseum, The Forum Romanum etc etc.

Some short impressions:

The best cappuccino's; many old churches; Italians think 20 degrees is really c-c-c-cold?; the traffic is really a disaster;!

For more photo check the link at the right side of this blog!

Death of (Grand) Father

At the beginning of october my beloved father, our great grandfather passed away.

We all miss him very much. It is as if one part of the puzzle is missing now that he is gone.

My father had broken his hip after falling with his bike at the end of june.

After that he never really recovered from the fall. We are all very sad and pray that he is happy now with grandmother in heaven.