Holland Focus Sep-Oct 2015

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CONTENTS

ARTICLES______________________ 6 Herfst, autumn, Tegenvoeter - Ruud Hisgen 8 On ontbijtkoek 12 Botanical Garden Leiden celebrates 425th anniversary 18 Prinsjesdag, opening of the Dutch Parliamentary year 24 Dutchies in love with the CÔte d’Azur 28 Filmmaker Ate de Jong 36 Special Adventures

in cultural historical buildings 41 Rinske Geerlings 42 Dutch explorers mapping the world 54 Myth, Legend or Story?

58 SkinVision 64 750 years Oudewater welcomes King Willem-Alexander 68 How to plan your next stay at home holidays 70 Slotviering 200 jaar Koninkrijk 71 photos of the Royal Family by Odi Busman

REGULARS___________________ 3 editorial 17 Gedicht Belicht - Frans Hertoghs 23 Dutch/Flemish movies - the Loft 48 Kiwikorrels - Is het schoensmeer,

fruit, mens of vogel?

50 Dutch Cuisine - The original Brabantse Koffietafel 52 Taals Taaltje - Met een fris brein 65 Brisbane conference 66 Verbeeldingen - de visser

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Zwarte Piet, a Dutch children’s friend.

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This biography of fifteen postwar Dutch migrants is a story full of Joie de vivre—the joy of living; it’s contagious, uplifting, and humorous.

The resourceful, tolerant, artistic, and freethinking Paulusses take centre stage in Vertrek quickly form friendships with native-born Australians. Aussies resonated with links of Dutch historical strands that made up the Australian identity, begun in 1606.

Arriving in at the “Migrant Assimilation Camp,” the Paulusses’ were urged to drop their native language, cultural norms, and values.

Culture shocks were relentless for this liberal Dutch family whose values clashed with a monoculture conservative Angloceltic society that was years behind in attitude and sophistication. Living in a transit Caravan Park, the family came face to face with human rights abuses.

Confronted with the White Australia Policy, inequality of women, nonrecognition of Aborigines, the stealing of babies from unmarried mothers, and the stolen generation of Australian aborigines, all were “awareness incubators” for the family’s later involvement in social justice.

This biography begins in the effervescent cultural cauldron of the counterculture movements. Not only did the pill change sex from procreation to recreation but completely changed the mores of conservative Australia. Despite the antiwar movement’s popularity, the Australian government was about to conscript eighteen-year-old Dutch boys to fight in the killing fields of Vietnam. As of old, the Dutch revolted, tens of thousands started a new exodus of Vertrek back to Nederland.

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KIRKUS review USA Vertrek’s strengths outweigh its weaknesses. It’s loaded with perceptive portraits of the Australians and Dutch Paulusse knew and descriptions of his family’s struggles.

Vertrek also provides an ambivalent take on assimilation and the so-called advances of modern life compared with “a quieter, more stable time.” Overall, these memorable anecdotes are told with empathy and laced with wit and warmth.

Claudio Corlazzoli Paris France I recommend ‘Vertrek’ to everybody. Very fluent and never boring. I liked the pictures at the end of the chapters, so I could give a face to the people mentioned. I underlined the sentences that I liked the most, I’ve been meditating on many things. I liked how you talked about social issues, comparing the present and the past. Especially I liked the part about conscription for Vietnam’s war and the real story about the discovery of Australia. And The last intimate chapters about your family were touching. This book kept a lot of company to me as a solo traveller around the world. I’m looking forward to your up coming 2nd book!

Nel Terri New York USA “Vertrek” seemed interesting, but when I saw the bookcover with the picture of you and your sisters my curiosity took over and I ordered the book on Amazon. When I told my sons about it they also were enthused so I ordered and received copies of your book for them as well; I hope Amazon pays you the royalties! It was amazing to read how you and your family coped with the hardship in settling in Australia. I have high admiration for your mom and dad to stick with it during those times.

Margaret Calloway , Baronia Victoria Iam Australian , 92 years of age I still read a lot, I just wanted to let you know that Vertrek is one of the most inspiring touching and witty books I have ever read. There is only one thing wrong with it , at 315 pages and 25 Chapters it is too short. I cannot wait for the sequel to come out this year. I just love and respect the Dutch even more after reading Vertrek. My son inlaw is Dutch and he bought copies for all of his family in Netherland the US and Australia.

Keith Paulusse was born in the city of Terneuzen, situated in the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. At age eleven, he migrated to Australia. He left school at thirteen to start work in an Australian butter factory; at fifteen years, he become a postman. He completed his secondary education by working and studying part-time at Deakin University, paying his way.

Keith studied social science, majoring in psychology. His life was shaped by championing social justice. At various times, he was an entrepreneur, starting and publishing cultural magazines. For the past six years, he has operated a tuition-free school of languages for international students, refugees, migrants, and Australians with literacy challenges.

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HERFST, autumn

In the month of September when HERFST (or ‘najaar’), as the season is called in the Netherlands, began, I was loafing about Terneuzen in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen (southern Zeeland). It was a melancholy moment.

The sun had set and in the distance the huge Ferris Wheel was being dismantled. The KERMIS (fair) was moving out of town. All Saturday and Sunday, when I was in town, the small city of Terneuzen had been taken over by the loud noises of the many fairground attractions which seemed to be everywhere.

Suddenly autumn had come around.

The departure of the rowdy fair heralds the coming of winter.

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In England this season used to be called ‘harvest’ until the sixteenth century. An appropriate word because the end of summer is the time of year when crops are being gathered. It is a pity that the English replaced this beautiful word with ‘fall’ and the originally French word ‘autumpne’. Latin ‘autumnus’ or ‘auctumnus’ was probably derived from ‘auctus’ which means ‘increase’. It does not have the same wistful ring as ‘harvest’.

“Augustus Bevilacqua”. Bust of the emperor with the Civic Crown. photo Bibi Saint-Paul

The Dutch word HERFST is clearly related to English ‘harvest’ and it has been around for a millennium or even longer. In Dutch the first recorded word is ‘hervistmanot’ (herfstmaand -> autumn month).

The Dutch do not associate HERFST with ‘harvest’ anymore. The modern word for ‘harvest’ is OOGST. OOGST in its turn was derived from the name of the month of August (in Dutch: ‘augustus’, the eighth month of the year). And ‘august’ was borrowed from the Latin word ‘augustus’ (the honorary title of Roman emperors) meaning ‘sublime’.

August, of course, is traditionally the beginning of the OOGST and the harvest months. The original medieval Dutch name of August was not ‘augustus’ but ‘arenmaent’ which means ‘harvest month’. Dutch ‘aren’ is the plural of ‘aar’ which is the ear, or the head or the spike of grain or corn.

In German the word for harvest is still ‘Ernte’ which is clearly related to the Dutch word ‘aren’ and the English verb ‘to earn’. The Dutch still have the saying: ‘wie zaait zal oogsten’ (as you sow, so shall you reap).

It is a sobering fact of life that your existence on this earth is drawing to an end when you start to harvest what you sowed in youth. That’s what I clichéd when I watched the end of the fair in Terneuzen from the Scheldedijk.

In my mind’s ear I heard the coarse voice of the German singer Lotte Lenya singing the ‘September Song’. A song which she recorded when she was 59 in 1957. A song written by Walter Huston and composed by her husband Kurt Weill for the unsuccessful 1938 Broadway musical ‘Knickerbocker Holiday’ (a musical set in New Amsterdam in the sixteenth century).

Many other crooners have made this song famous. There are wonderful renditions by Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Sarah Vaughan and Eartha Kitt, but Lotte Lenya’s version remains my favourite.

So now that autumn has come: carpe diem (seize the day), let’s harvest, ‘laten we oogsten’ for there is no more time for ‘the waiting game’.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdc4oBnu_fw ‘Oh, it’s a long, long while from May to December But the days grow short when you reach September When the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame One hasn’t got time for the waiting game Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few September, November And these few precious days I’ll spend with you These precious days I’ll spend with you’ De Oogst, 1888 by Vincent van Gogh (Van Gogh Museum)

On Ontbijtkoek Recently, two new flavours of the popular Dutch spice cake known as ontbijtkoek hit the supermarket shelves: a whole grain version studded with a minimal amount of cranberries and another variation made with spelt and rye wheat flour. I tried them both, however, to be completely honest, I can’t say I noticed much of a difference in taste. In fact, there are quite a few varieties of ontbijtkoek out there and they all taste the same to me. Perhaps it’s because most ‘variations’ are actually pretty much composed of the same ingredients: glucose-fructose syrup, rye flour, sugar and spices.

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Not really very healthy you might say (and you would be right in making such an assumption), but more on that later. Any extra ingredients are minimal and mostly found on top of the cake. So why do new flavours keep being added to the already long list of over seventy varieties of the moist, aromatic and delicately spiced Dutch cake?

And how Dutch is it really?

It wasn’t until the end of the Middle Ages that the cake would make its appearance in the Netherlands. The cake was originally baked in convents using home grown wheat and honey from bees kept on the premises.

Soon the cake was being made professionally around Utrecht, Schoonhoven, Friesland, Groningen, Brabant and Deventer. Especially in Deventer, there were strict rules around the beginning of the 15th century regarding the weight, composition and hygiene standards involved in the production of the cake.

It’s hard to pinpoint when the first ontbijtkoek was baked.

What we do know is that although you may be inclined to think otherwise, it didn’t originate in the Netherlands.

The Egyptians, Greeks and Romans baked a very similar cake made with whole wheat grains, honey and spices.

The cake was so special that it was even offered to the gods and served during important ceremonies. This ‘honey cake’ was also loved in 10th-century China during the time of Genghis Khan.

It is interesting to note that the oldest bakery to make the cake, JB Bussink, still exists in Deventer today. You can even enjoy a piece of the cake at their shop, located in the centre of town, on Brink 84.

But the market leader when it comes to ontbijtkoek is still Peijnenburg, a company that started as a family-run

also named: peperkoek, feeste, lekkerkoek, zoete koek, honingkoek, kruidkoek or pondkoek

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business in Geldrop back in 1883. During the crisis years of the 1930s, Peijnenburg was clever enough to come up with a ‘surprise cake’ – a great way to boost their sales. This cake, which only cost 25 cents, came in a nice box along with a surprise such as a piece of gum or a pen. Despite its significant role in Dutch ontbijtkoek history, Peijnenburg was purchased by the Belgian company Lotus Bakeries in Lembeke in 2006.

From the very beginning, the spice cake was a success in the Netherlands. It was eaten at birthdays but also at funerals.

It even made its way overseas to the New World with the Dutch colonists.

There are records of wealthy families in New York such as the Van Cortlandts and the Van Rensselaers dating to the 18th century in which honey cooke is mentioned. Though its most frequently used name states otherwise, ontbijtkoek is not only a breakfast item today. It is also enjoyed as a snack, and because it contains very little fat, it is often advertised as being ‘healthy’. Sometimes it is even recommended as a remedy for constipation!

Unfortunately, the health claims are not really true if you consider that one of the main ingredients is sugar and that it consists of over 90% carbohydrates. But the same can be said for stroopwafels (syrup waffles) and speculaas (spice cookies), two other treats loved by the Dutch. And by me. That fact that ontbijtkoek isn’t healthy shouldn’t be the problem (everything in moderation). The fact that it is advertised as such, however, is another story.

What I can’t get my head around are all those new and improved variations. Perhaps it’s a sign of the times.

People are no longer satisfied with the everyday and are constantly in search of bigger and better. Walking past the ontbijtkoek aisle at my local supermarket is starting to remind me of the cereal aisles from my youth in the United States. How many flavours can there possibly be?

With that in mind, I decided to come up with my own version of the cake. A recipe that, at least in my house, will never change and will remain consistently good.

Though be warned – traditional it is not. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

Bussink pictures: geheugenvannederland.nl

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Paola’s Easy Ontbijtkoek Makes approximately 8-10 slices

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220g all-purpose flour 1 ½ tsp baking powder ½ tsp baking soda 2 ½ tsps koekkruiden 100 g light brown sugar 100 ml honey 50 ml single cream 50 ml water 2 eggs

Preheat oven to 220°C and line a rectangular baking tin with baking paper. Sift the flour, baking powder and baking soda into a large bowl. Add in the koekkruiden and the brown sugar and mix well. Make a well in the centre and add in the honey, cream, water and eggs. Carefully fold in these ingredients until you have a smooth batter. Pour the batter into the baking tin and bake for 20 minutes. Cover with foil and continue baking for another ten minutes. Take the tin out of the oven and place it on a rack for 5 minutes. Take the cake out of the tin, allow to cool and serve.

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Hortus Botanicus Leiden 1610, Willem Swanenburgh after Jan Cornelisz Woudanusgif

Botanical Garden Leiden celebrates 425th anniversary It is 425 years ago that the botanical garden in Leiden was founded: the Hortus Botanicus, the first botanical garden in the country. Holland as a seafaring nation travelled to many, until then, unknown continents, looking for spices, buying and selling spices, rubber, cotton etc. Along the way they learned about useful herbs and plants.

words Birgit Blankers photo Birgit Blankers

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Mrs. Gerda van Uffelen, Biologist, PhD Leiden University, is the collection manager at the botanical garden in Leiden. Being a botanist she is passionate about plants.

“I love being a biologist”, she says, “Animals tend to run away when you want to study them. Plants don’t do that which makes things a lot easier.”

Having worked for the Hortus since 1993, and still going strong, she is very knowledgeable about the history of the botanical garden and she is happy to talk about it, while sitting on a sunny terrace surrounded by blooming plants. She explains that during the times of the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company) the world’s first multinational business, founded in 1602, by Jan van Riebeeck, their ships sailed to India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka to find interesting plants, animals and minerals. During those long voyages a ship’s doctor or botanist accompanied the crew to take care of the crewmembers’ health, but also to search for new useful plants. One of these by now famous people was Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein.

Born in Amsterdam, 1636, he became a military man and also colonial administrator of the VOC. The VOC sent him to Malabar where he became a botanist. He wrote a book about the flora in India called: Hortus Indicus Malabaricus. He described 740 plants of which the names were published in at least five languages: Latin, Arabic, Sanskrit, Malamayam and Dutch. He collected plants and sent some over to Leiden, to the first university in Holland. In that period of time India,

Mrs. Gerda van Uffelen with Wollemia Nobilis, photo Birgit Blankers

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buste of Carolus Clusius in the Botanical Garden Leiden, photo Biccie

more specifically Kerala, was very fascinating to Holland, because of the wealth of available spices, like pepper and nutmeg. Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein died in 1691 on his way from Cochin to Surat. He received an honorable burial in Surat on 3 January 1692.

Also some botanical gardens were founded in Indonesia for instance at Buitenzorg (now Bogor). Indonesian and Dutch botanists still have a good relationship. Today Indonesia is founding many more excellent botanical gardens without the help of foreign scientists.

page from Hortus Indicus Malabaricus

Another famous person in the history of the gardens is Carolus Clusius, born in Atrecht (now Arras) in 1526. In 1551 he studied healing arts and botany at Montpellier. After having worked as a botanist in Vienna and Frankfurt, he became a professor at the university of Leiden. He also became the head ‘Prefect’ of the botanical garden in Leiden.

The Austrian ambassador in the Ottoman Empire gave Clusius a few tulip bulbs that originated from sultan SĂźleyman the 1st. Clusius did a lot of research on tulips and thus he was one of the founders of the Dutch tulip growing industry, development and improvement of the flower. Clusius died in 1609 in Leiden. A bust made after his portrait stands among his beloved plants in Leiden.

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Semper Augustus, Tulip before 1640, most expensive tulip at the time - Norton Simon Museum

Paradise preserved in greenhouse Hortus, photo Birgit Blankers

New Zealand Flax (Phormium tenax) Early 19th century the Netherlands and New Zealand had a good affiliation and many native plants were sent over to Leiden. This stopped when the British started ruling New Zealand, but relationships between New Zealand and the Netherlands are still good due to the many Dutch who migrated to New Zealand.

In May 2015, Veranoa Hetet, professional flax weaver and teacher in New Zealand came to the Museum voor Volkenkunde (Ethnology Museum) in Leiden to demonstrate the traditional and contemporary Maori art of flax weaving. She also visited the Hortus in Leiden.

Mrs. Van Uffelen met her in Leiden. ”Veranoa asked for our flax plants and she took one of the leaves, just like that, extracted the fibers and started spinning a thread from it”, Gerda says still amazed. ”She was so skilled and very fast.” Mrs. Van Uffelen shows a tread spun by Veranoa.

Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) From Australia comes the Wollemi Pine. ”It was discovered in 1994 in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, now the Wollemi National Park”, Gerda explains. “Until then the tree was only 15

known as a fossil.”

Australia sold plants to the botanical garden in Leiden, but sold them to many other gardens too, such as the gardens in Amsterdam and Utrecht.

Although the Hortus in Leiden celebrates a long and rich history, it also looks to the future.

“Plants are being analyzed for useful ingredients, for instance their healing qualities”, Mrs. Van Uffelen explains. “Today these methods are more sophisticated and faster than in the olden days.”

The search for new herbal medicines continues.

Plants from all over the world are being analyzed for this purpose. The botanical garden in Leiden plays an important role in this. www.hortusleiden.nl

Jan Mortel, still life with flowers 1688, Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden

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Prinsjesdag opening of the Dutch Parliamentary year 18

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Prinsjesdag 2014, by Minister-President Rutte below: Minister Dijsselbloem, by Rijksoverheid/Valerie Kuypers 2014

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left: 2014, Rijksoverheid, Valerie Kuypers. below: 2013, Ministerie van Defensie

Every third Tuesday in September, The Hague has its big day: Prinsjesdag, this year on September 15th. The King and Queen travel in the Gouden Koets (GoldenCoach) to the Ridderzaal, heart of the Binnenhof, residence of the Dutch government, to open the Parliamentary year. The Head of State reads out the troonrede (Crown speech) to the members of the Eerste Kamer and Tweede Kamer (Dutch Senate and Parliament), in which the government explains what can be expected the upcoming year. It is one of the rare Dutch days with many traditions and rituals.

Prinsjesdag: how did it start?

In the 17th and 18th century, the name ‘Prinsjesdag’ was used to celebrate the birthdays of the Princes of Orange, stadhouders (stadtholder) of the Republic of 7 Provinces: Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland, Overijssel, Groningen and Friesland. The first half of the 18th century was an era without a stadtholder (Stadhouderloos Tijdperk), because there was no male heir. Although a republic – the first one in modern world history – the stadhouder shared some rights and duties with crowned heads, like succession rights. After the birth of Willem V in 1748, his birthday was a day to celebrate with the Oranje fans, called ‘Prinsjesdag’.

Prinsjesdag and the government The first real Prinsjesdag was on May 2nd, 1814, when King Willem I (son of Stadhouder Willem V) read out the troonrede. Until 1848, the King decided on the content of the speech. It was the year of revolutions and turmoils throughout Europe and many crowned heads were forced

to abdicate or were even killed. In the Netherlands - a united Kingdom since 1813 after the defeat of Napoleon - the change in history was so-to-speak a peaceful revolution: King Willem II ordered statesman Thorbecke to change the Constitution. It happened in a liberal way: the Head of State was no longer ‘the boss of the country’: the ministers became responsible for everything the Head of State said or did. From 1848 on, the troonrede was no longer a Kings’ affair: the ministers wrote the content of the speech.

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Prinsjesdag as we know it today During the first half of the 19th century, Prinsjesdag was held on the first Monday of November, later on the third Monday of October. With the big changes in

left: 2014, Stef Blok and partner, Rijksoverheid Bas Arps, below: 2011, Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien, Ministerie van Defensie

1848, the troonrede became the yearly budget presentation for the upcoming year. Therefor it was better to advance the date a month. For members of Parliament travelling from remote parts of the country Monday was not a good day: it meant they had to travel to The Hague on Sunday, and Sunday rest was ‘holy’ in those days. In 1887, Prinsjesdag officially moved to Tuesday. Not until the First World War, before the troonrede got the character it still has: an outline of the state of the country and a presentation of the plans for the upcoming Parliamentary year. The name ‘Prinsjesdag’ became popular around 1930 and in 1931, it was filmed for the first time, with the microphone next to Queen Wilhelmina’s throne.

Prinsjesdag, a day of rituals On Prinsjesdag, the Netherlands shows off its royal grandeur. The King and Queen tour through The Hague, from Paleis Noordeinde (the work palace of the King) to the Binnenhof. His brother Prince Constantijn and his wife Princess Laurentien join them in the Galaglasberliner. This second prestigious royal coach has just been restored and will be used the next four years by the King and Queen, because the Golden Coach needs to be restored as well.

The procession, accompanied by a range of army groups in gala uniforms and members of the court in smaller coaches, always leaves the Palace at 12.50 pm and arrives at 1.15 pm. After having read the troonrede, the return starts at 2 pm.

When they leave the Palace and before they enter the Ridderzaal, all members pay a salute to the Vaandel (standard) of the army. With the departure and arrival of the King, the national anthem Wilhelmus is played.

Along the route erewachten (guards of honour, with representatives from different students resiliencies) are placed, together with bands from all parts of the army and a citizen deputation from one of the provinces (every year another one). When the King leaves the palace, every minute one gun salute is fired, until he returns at the palace. The day ends with the balconscène (balcony scene), when the members of the Royal Family appear on the balcony of the palace, to wave to the people.

Traditionally, after her abdication, Princess Juliana watched the procession behind a window in the Kabinet der Koningin (Queen’s Office) and wove to her daughter Beatrix. Being Princess again, Beatrix did the same last year for the first time. The Kings’ children will accompany their parents, after they turn 18.

Dress code and hats The members of the Royal Family wear gala; for the other guests a different dress code is applied. Men should wear a three-piece suit, ladies in a formal dress or a ladies suit and a hat. Being the hostess of the event, the head of the Eerste Kamer is the only one not wearing a hat. Since several years, many women wear striking hats, afterwards largely discussed by the media. This ‘Dutch Ascot’ tradition started in 1977, when former swim champion and Member of Parliament Erica Terpstra appeared with an outrageous creation on her head, in her words ‘to change the grey masses’.

Incidents Basically, the outline of Prinsjesdag looks the same every year. There were a few exceptions and some incidents.

In 1939, when World War II had just started, the Golden Coach made place for an open coach. According to stories, the Golden Coach had been hidden in a haystack during the war, but that story cannot be confirmed.

In 1945, right after the war, Prinsjesdag took place in November in a sober way without coaches. The years after, the ceremony was sober as well and the coaches stayed in the Royal stables. In 1948 the Dutch could see the Golden Coach again, with the newly inaugurated Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard. In 1963, an incident

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disturbed the departure of the crème-calèche, the open coach with Princesses Beatrix, Irene and Margriet in it. The horses run wild, the coach ended up against a tree, but the Princesses were unharmed. They had to accompany their parents, Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard, in the Golden Coach (which turned out to be rather small for five people).

In 1974, due to a high-jacking at the French embassy in The Hague (more or less along the route of the procession), cars were used instead of coaches. In 2001, Prinsjesdag took place just one week after the 9/11 attacks in the USA. There was no music and for one minute the Golden Coach stood still in front of the American Embassy (along the route), to bring a salute to the American people. It was remarkable and well noticed in the States: as according to protocol, a Head of State never waits. In 2010 a bewildered man threw a hot plate towards the Golden Coach. It was quit harmless, but a frightfully remembrance of the attack during Koninginnedag 2009 in Apeldoorn, when a man in a car drove through a group of spectators in the direction of the Royal parade, killing eight people.

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residents of Amsterdam to Queen Wilhelmina, to celebrate her inauguration in 1898. The cornice is curved, because she wanted to be able to stand up in the coach with her hat on. On her wedding day, February 7th of 1901, she used the coach for the first time, together with Prince Hendrik. Since 1903 the Head of State uses the coach at Prinsjesdag. In the beginning, when the weather was bad, the coach stayed indoors, to avoid impairments.

The Golden Coach was also used during some important Royal occasions: the christening of Princess Juliana in 1909 and Princess Beatrix in 1938 and the marriages of Juliana and Bernhard in 1937, Beatrix and Claus in 1966 and Willem-Alexander and Máxima in 2002.

According to an ancient protocol, eight horses draw the coach when a crowned head is a passenger, in all other cases six horses have to do the work. The coach is party beguiled and richly decorated. Actually, the coach is not made out of pure gold, but teakwood from Java, partly gold plated. A coach of pure gold would be and too heavy to be practical. Spijker, in later years maker of automobiles, produced the coach. Some examples: Spijker used the Dutch Karos van Staat (Coach of State) – which disappeared during the French invasion at the end of the 18th century - and the still existing Kings Coach of Charles X of France.

Recently the Golden Coach was subject of discussions: on the left side half naked African and Indonesian men are depicted, titled ‘Homage to the Colonies’. The Landelijk Platform Slaverijverleden (federal group slavery past) regards it as ‘a transfiguration of slavery and colonialism’.

One can argue if they have a point, because the depiction was created in the very start of the 20th century, when colonialism was a big thing in Europe. On the other side of the coach is depicted ‘Homage to the Netherlands’.

After Prinsjesdag 2015, the Golden Coach will disappear behind closed doors for four years, for a radical, but necessary restoration.

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the LOFT While Hollywood remakes of nonEnglish language films are pretty common, it’s a bit more unusual when the director of the original recreates their own film -- some examples include Michael Haneke’s Funny Games, Ken Scott’s Starbuck, George Sluizer’s The Vanishing, and this issue’s film, Erik van Looy’s The Loft.

The original Dutch language version of The Loft was released back in 2008 and proved to be quite a hit in Belgium and the Netherlands, and Van Looy filmed the English version in 2011; however, due to studio complications, the film sat on the shelf for around three years before finally receiving a rather short-lived theatrical release in late 2014. The film is now out on DVD, a medium to which it is perhaps better suited.

Beyond the director, there’s a link to the original version in the form of Matthias Schoenaerts, who here reprises the role he played in the 2008 film. Schoenaerts plays one of a group of five male friends who keep a secret apartment (the loft of the title) to be used as and when they wish. This

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arrangement appears to have served the men well, but it all goes very wrong when the corpse of a young woman is found in the apartment. As no-one other than the five men has a key, the friends soon turn on each other as they try to work out who’s responsible. They’re not the only ones seeking the truth, as the police have their own ideas about what happened in the building and have some tough questions of their own for the men. With the aid of many flashbacks, we gradually learn all about these five men and, most crucially, why there’s a dead woman in their loft apartment.

Predictably and rather dispiritingly, The Loft is yet another example of the inferior English language remake; the original is no masterpiece, but anyone who enjoyed the Dutch language film has very little to gain from this version, which actually looks and feels a lot less cinematic than the film it’s based on. If it wasn’t for the presence of a few notable stars (beyond Schoenaerts, there’s Star Trek’s Karl Urban and X-Men’s James Marsden), this would pass as your average television film.

While the limited success of this version of The Loft will do little to stop the practice of giving non-English language works a Hollywood makeover, it perhaps does at least prove that audiences may be a touch more discerning than studios seem to think. While The Loft is by no means a complete disaster, it’s a somewhat pointless effort that largely deserves the straight-to-DVD status it has in some territories.

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Dutchies in love with the Côte d’Azur That are the members of the Côte d’Azur Autrement. Some time ago they left their country. A life of busy, busy, busy was exchanged for quiet, space and freedom. Without any specific reason Peter and I were invited to visit them.

“When you finally cut the umbilical cord, you are free from your mother(country). Then you are gone,” Nikolas Juste says. Together with his wife Marian, Peter and I enjoy a plat du jour in the restaurant ‘castle pub’ in Chateauneuf.

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left Sydney and Karin, below Nicolas and Marian

Villa Menuse Tonight we have dinner at their place in their Villa Menuse, where they opened a B&B in 2014. We will eat the asparagus they picked the day before. For dessert their two children will bake a cake from a batter of melted chocolate. Nicolas used to have a very busy building company, employing 25 people, in Belgium. Marian enjoyed her well paid management job. “We were always busy, busy, busy”, Nicolas says.

a monthly salary of 40,000 euro.

The Antibes also have a Picasso museum. Just like many other artists he was drawn to the Côte d’Azur. Being one of the most expensive locations on earth, it is also a spot to fall in love.

Trip Advisor About 27 years ago the accountant Rob Heuver and interior designer Willem Zoon fell hopelessly in love. They got married. “In 2006, we moved to the Côte d’Azur. With 20 people working for me, all I was doing was earning money in the Netherlands. I did not want that anymore.”

In 2014, Trip Advisor gave Villa Cédria a winning 5 star rating.

No mistral Now they live in Villa La Menuse where they started a ‘chambre d’hôte’ in 2014. Not just the mountains and the sea, but also the weather attracted them. Nicolas: “Different to other parts in the South of France: no mistrals here.”

Villa Cédria Its 1500 years old olive trees, cypress trees and fig trees make Villa Cédria a paradise on earth. The walls are decorated with paintings by Rob. Funny, joyful and lively.

Rob surprises us with delicious homemade jams at breakfast. The taste is smooth and very fruity. “For the plum jam I use 650gr sugar on 1 kg plums. I mix the

Antibes Villa La Menuse is close to the Antibes. Private yachts belonging to the super rich are anchored there. Equipped with their own aircraft landing area. After the landing of their helicopter they sail away quickly. Their captains earn 25

Rob Heuver and Willem Zoon Côte d’Azur. President is Sydney. “It has always been Sydney’s dream to live at the Côte d’Azur,” his wife Karin explains. “Since he was two years old he has been holidaying on the one special beach near Cannes, every summer.”

clementines with slivers of their skin, boiled until tender,” Rob reveals.

Colle sur Loup Villa Cédria is situated in la Colle sur Loup, the hill of the wolf. “The river here is as untameable as a wolf.

Once restless and rough, then calm and subdued,” Rob explaining the name of the valley.

Close by is the artists’ village St Paul de Vence, with the grave of Chagall. We drink a glass of Monaco, a nice drink made from lemonade, beer and grenadine, on the cosy terrace next to the jeu de boule course.

Art of cooking Sydney and Karin met in Hong Kong. She was a financial controller and he worked in the fashion world of the Beau Monde. They have been living at the Côte d’Azur for 8 years now. Sydney surprised us with his cooking skills.

Sydney: “A builder gave us the idea to start a chambre d’hôte. He planted a seed and we started it. Here, we meet people from all over the world. Many nice people who inspire us. The same as our guests.”

Côte d’Azur Autrement Rob and Willem are members of the Côte d’Azur Autrement, just like Marian and Nicolas. An association between 17 owners of luxury chambre d’hotes at the

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Cannes. It is the world of film stars like Robert de Niro and Roger Moore. An apartment costs minimal one million euro. The most expensive villa sold for 550 million euro.

From the beach we look over the azure blue water.

“We have got everything here,” Sydney says. “Quiet, nature, culinary art and culture. We from the Côte d’Azur Autrement know all this and explain it to our guests as the ambassadors of the region.” more info: www.cote-azur-autrement.com Villa Menuse, www.villamenuse.com Villa Cedria, www.villacedria.com La parare, www.laparare.com

10 tips: 1 Museum Fondation Maeght 2 St Paul de Vence, well known artists’ village 3 Restaurant Castle Pub, www.pub.castle.fr 4 Gordon, mountain village 5 Reservoir Mercantour 6 Mountain village Peillon and Auberge de la Madone. www.auberge.de.la.madone@wanadoo.fr 7 Col de Tende through the Vallee de Merveille 8 Nice 9 Route Napoleon 10 Cap Ferrat

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Ate de Jong during the filming of Fogbound

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Ate de Jong With a great diversity of successful film and TV productions under his belt, he’s one of Holland’s highest-profile directors: Ate de Jong. At the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, we had an in-depth conversation with this internationally acclaimed filmmaker.

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Ate de Jong: “I was recently at one of the storage facilities of the film museum EYE, because a print of A Flight of Rainbirds had been completely acidified and now had become contagious, and therefore had to be thrown away. It was quite symbolic, I thought, so we ceremonially ‘buried’ the cans.”

“Perseverance more important than talent” Ate de Jong, born in 1953 in Aardenburg, Zeeland, studied at the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam from 1970 to 1974. “Of the 700 people who applied for the academy in 1970, only 27 were accepted,” says De Jong.

“I was very young, 17, when I started and knew very, very little about film. I had seen one film! I certainly was not more talented or more intelligent than others. And then you find out that films don’t get made at all by those who have the most talent, but those who have the most perseverance. The talent of a good filmmaker is not just knowing how to make a film, but also making sure that it géts made!”

What directors did he come to admire during his study?

“The ones that I still admire, such as Stanley Kubrick, who I consider to be phenomenal. And I thought Ernst Lubitsch – almost nobody knows him anymore – made the best films imaginable. Among my favourites were also Josef von Sternberg, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Luchino Visconti – who still watches their films? I thought their work was fantastic! Later on, people like Francis Ford Coppola followed, but they were already of a second generation. There are also current filmmakers I like a great deal, too, but genuine admiration I have for those who had a formative effect on me.”

In 1981, De Jong, who over the years has also been active as a journalist and novelist, adapted Maarten ‘t Hart’s novel A Flight of Rainbirds / Een Vlucht Regenwulpen for the screen. Just as the book marked the breakthrough for ‘t Hart three years earlier, so did the film for De Jong. An endearing mix of drama and comedy, it revolves around a nerdy biologist, clumsy in approaching women, and his debonair, extraverted alter ego (both portrayed by Jeroen

Krabbé in his first leading film role). Van ‘t Hart’s novel was reprinted in November 2014 on the occasion of the annual campaign ‘Nederland Leest’ (‘Holland Reads’).

In 1987, he made the leap to the USA, where he directed an episode of the popular and hip police series Miami Vice. He went on to make the film Highway to Hell, in which a man literally goes through hell to rescue his girlfriend, and Drop Dead Fred, a comedy about a young woman and her imaginary friend.

Triumvirate with Jeroen Krabbé and Edwin de Vries In 1998, he, actor/director Jeroen Krabbé and actor/ screenwriter Edwin de Vries (husband of actress Monique van de Ven) founded the film production company Mulholland Pictures. The first motion picture made under this flag, the highly-praised drama Left Luggage (1998), showed the struggles of a young Jewish nanny working for a strict Chassidic family in Antwerp in the 1970s.

The company was also responsible for one of the most prestigious Dutch movies ever, The Discovery of Heaven / De Ontdekking van de Hemel (2001), directed by Krabbé.

In this adaptation of the international bestseller by Harry Mulisch, God orders angels to design a merciless and ingenious plan to have the Ten Commandments brought back to heaven.

With Mick Jagger, they co-produced Michael Apted’s thriller Enigma (2001), in which British experts try to break the Enigma Code of Nazi U-boats. Another Mulholland Pictures project was Fogbound (2002), directed by De Jong. It’s the bizarre story of a married couple and their friend who during a road trip get completely blanketed in fog, after which one of them is

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found dead.

Since February 2005, after a breach with Krabbé, De Jong became the sole owner of Mulholland Pictures. “With Jeroen, I’m not in touch anymore, because he doesn’t want to. With Edwin, however, I am still close friends.

Jeroen is very much self-centred. He wanted to make films that I thought weren’t the right films, which he then held against me. In the end, he never made those films.

After The Discovery of Heaven, he’s never made a film again. He had great ambitions to continue as a director, but he chose the wrong path. And now, I think, he’s very content with his painting. Actually, he’s more a painter, in my eyes, than an actor or a director. Not only is he trained as an actor, but also as a painter. Plus, he comes from a family of painters.”

In Left Luggage, a Jewish woman (Isabella Rossellini) becomes a nanny in a strict Chassidic family which includes a four-year old boy (Adam Monty) who’s incapable of speaking.

Ate de Jong and Jan Smit on the set of The Blitz: The Bombardment of Rotterdam / Het Bombardement.

Proud on The Blitz despite bad reviews Not the success De Jong had hoped for was his World War II drama The Blitz: The Bombardment of Rotterdam / Het Bombardement (2012). Set around the time Rotterdam was bombed, in May 1940, it followed the trials and tribulations of a Dutch boxer and his German girlfriend.

Upfront, some criticised the makers because a non-actor, popular Dutch singer Jan Smit, had been cast in a leading role, and again after the film’s completion (though much less so in the UK), because many reviewers purported the script and acting left something to be desired.

What did all the negative comments on The Blitz do to the filmmaker personally? “Well, those probably were the worst reviews I’ve ever had in my life! Although I never read reviews, the good ones included, because I’m too Calvinistic for that, I had heard it from hearsay. That

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Deadly Virtues: Love. Honour. Obey. - written by Mark Rogers. As he recalls: “Three weeks after the premiere of The Blitz, I visited my two sons in London and discussed all that negative response with friends. One of them was Elliot Grove, founder of the Raindance Film Festival and film producer. I complained, complained, complained… After ten minutes, he went: ‘Are you finished complaining?’ And then: ‘Would you like to take a look at this script?’ I said I would. A day later, I told him: ‘Elliot, you can get David Cronenberg or David Lynch for this, that’s how good it is!’ He then said: ‘Yes, but then it would get very expensive. We at Raindance work with low budgets. Can’t we make it as a no-budget production?’ Whereupon I replied: ‘Yes, why not?’ For me, this came exactly at the right time. For the best thing you can do as a director to get over a disappointment is to make a new film.”

He adds: “It’s Mark Rogers’ first script that got filmed, but he’s already written something like 200 scripts, mostly for short films. He writes incredibly fast, but he’s autistic.

Only once did I speak with him, for ten minutes. All further communication took place by e-mail. And thén he writes the most intelligent things, but face to face he’s unable to talk.”

What, according to him, makes his script stand out? “The enormous fear these three people feel to have no right to exist. The intruder gets his right to exist by having the two occupants do whatever he wants, and all that as pure as possible, in accordance with Japanese philosophy. The spouse claims a right to exist by dominating his wife. And the wife obtains her right to exist by wresting herself from his dominance. She is the only one who undergoes a transformation. What I also saw in it was something I always try to find in a film: something I can relate to, in

wasn’t pleasant, but I’ve been around long enough to know you mustn’t take that personal. Overall, the public, by contrast, did like the film. We had almost €1.5 million in the box office, while most Dutch films do less than € 100,000. But much less people came to see it than I had expected, while I felt this film deserved a large audience. Thát, for me, was the biggest disappointment.

Nonetheless I’m still very proud of The Blitz. The fact that the film was attacked so severely has something to do with that, too. This meant it needed my emotional support even more.”

Did the bad reviews play a role in the lower than expected visitor attendance figures? “Eventually, they did, but in general, reviews, also good ones, don’t have that much influence on the success of a film. But what we had underestimated with The Blitz was that the bad reviews served as the flywheel for an extremely negative Twitter and Facebook campaign. Participating in this were numerous anonymous people who thought it was great fun to write the meanest things about the film. And that did have a huge impact.”

Oppressive: Deadly Virtues: Love. Honour. Obey.

In November 2014, his thriller Deadly Virtues: Love.

Honour. Obey. - a joint venture between Raindance Raw Talent and Mulholland Pictures - was released directly on DVD, Blu-ray and Video on Demand in the Netherlands.

The production has also been sold abroad, including to Australia and New Zealand. In this oppressive film, a psychopath invades the home of a young couple, ties up the man and starts mentally tormenting the woman. In the process, he brings about some self-reflection with her – to her own surprise.

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In Deadly Virtues: Love. Honour. Obey., a violent stranger (Edward Akrout, pictured here), invades the home of Alison (Megan Mackzo) and her husband Tom.

Johnny Flynn in Love Is Thicker Than Water.

Lydia Wilson in Love Is Thicker Than Water.

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With her documentary If Mama Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy, Ate de Jong’s daughter Mea won several prizes, including the award for best short documentary and the audience award at the Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival in Babelsberg, Germany.

this case awfully deep jealousy. I had just experienced that with a woman who was very jealous of things that had happened 20 years ago, while she had nothing to do with those previous women.”

Many lauded the film. De Jong: “It was easy to put together a long list of excellent quotes from a wide variety of reviews from different countries. Particularly the UK press was very well-disposed to the film.”

film definitely has cinema quality. It has a top UK cast, including Johnny Flynn, who recently starred in Song One with Anne Hathaway, Lydia Wilson, who you will very soon hear a lot about, Juliet Stevenson, a Laurence Olivier Award winning actress, Henry Goodman, who won several Oliviers, and Ellie Kendrick, who plays a recurring role in Game of Thrones. Therefore, the film certainly will stand a good chance of getting released in Englishspeaking countries such as Australia, New Zeeland, Canada and the UK, and hopefully the USA, too.”

Coming soon: Love Is Thicker Than Water De Jong once played with the idea to make more Deadly Film talent runs in the family Virtues movies. “The second Deadly Virtues film has De Jong’s daughter Mea directed the documentary If actually been made as Love Is Thicker Than Water,” Mama Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy (2014), in which she he notes. “It’s a modern Romeo and Juliet tale that and her mother, Laura Dols, outline a portrait about four Emily Harris and I directed. It will probably premiere in generations that all managed without a man. Her father spring 2016. All my associates – including the financier appears in it, too.

– want another title, because they are afraid this movie “The film has won awards at five international film otherwise will be pushed too much into the horror/ thriller corner. Thematically, there definitely are links, but festivals,” De Jong senior proudly mentions. “There are genre-wise less. For me, however, that’s no objection. It’s several festivals that even ask her to submit the film! My best advice to her is: ‘Pack your bags as soon as possible. a case of wait and see what the final title will be.”

In the Netherlands you’d become a subsidy slave and About the making of the film, he says: “It was a feast to deeply unhappy. Foreign countries, especially the UK shoot it, but never choose a location next to a squat as and USA, will give you more opportunities and a broader we did! One day, the squat was swept clean by a strongcanvas’.” arm squad. Then the police came, followed by the firebrigade, together with a large group of sympathizers of Further information the squatters. And everyone was thinking that we with our cameras were from the news. Just try to shoot a calm, www.mulhollandpictures.com www.raindance.org/rawtalent intimate love scene with all that mayhem going on!”

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Natuurmonumenten manages not just more than 350 natural reserves in the Netherlands, but also about 3200 cultural historical buildings. Of these 550 have a monumental status. They are special buildings, brimming with stories.

Cultural history is popular with older people, but also young ones enjoy having High Tea at historical country estates or in a castle. Two third of the Dutch visit at least one time per year a cultural historical building or country estate in the Netherlands. People especially want to see and experience staying at a country estate. This shows in a survey conducted by TNS Nipo for Natuurmonumenten with 1000 responses.

No fewer than 82% of the Dutch are of the opinion that cultural heritages should be opened for public.

At the same time 40% indicate that remediation for the monuments should be found to make sure they are financially independent. To keep these building sustainable they are often closed to the public. Twice yearly; in May and September, Natuurmonumenten makes an exception to the rule and organises the Cultural Monuments Month. Then special cultural historical buildings will be opened to the public. Apart from that a growing amount of renovated country houses have created accommodation and holiday facilities.

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The old soul of the Keunenhuis One of those special buildings is country estate Keunenhuis in ‘t Woold. Here time stood still since 1908. When approaching the original access road to the Keunenhuis one leaves modern time behind. The stately farm looks lived-in. The curtains still hang in front of the windows, the living room is furnished. The antique Singer sewing machine stands on the table, ready to use. The living room and kitchen have high ceilings, the windows have shutters on the inside. The fireplaces still have the original tiles. On the walls is still the original jute wallpaper. Even the paintwork dates from 1908. Clothes are hanging in the cupboards.

On the bed in one of the bedrooms long, woollen underpants are ready to be pulled on. It seems that the people that live here can walk in any moment to resume their activities.

work trousers for the farmers. Who, at the same time, functioned as musician as a clothing maker did not earn enough. In the Sniederhuuske too livestock was placed.

The original floor is made of small veldkeitjes (kind of cobblestone) which show letters. Rauwerink: “It seems as if it says Keunen, but we are not sure. We still haven’t found anything in the archives about it.” In the ‘schoppe’ (shed) is a waste tank. The cracks in the roof are plugged up with straw.

Sniedershuuske The livestock was placed in the space behind the house. But also the maid and workhand slept here. Their rooms are above the stables and are furnished and intact. On the coat rack overalls are hanging and a rope with two wooden sticks on both sides. “That are the clubs,” ranger Hans Rauwerdink explains.

“When a cow was calving and it did not happen naturally, the clubs were attached to the calf’s legs to help pulling.”

In the yard are a water well, a dog kennel and an authentic Sniederhuuske dating from 1840. “Here lived the clothing makers (the snieder) who made the

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Nothing changed since 1900 Mrs Hijink lived in the Keunenhuis till December 2012.

“The estate was part of the swamp woods Bekendelle till about 40 years ago. After that it was split up, Mrs Hijink wanted the estate to be one again. To her it was important that nothing would disappear.” Since the 80s Bekendelle is owned by Natuurmonumenten. By buying the Keunenhuis the estate is consolidated again.

“We will restore the old fields to its former glory. The meadows will become grain fields where we will grow spelt, Sint Jans rye, barley, legumes, potatoes and beets.

The meadows will be full of flowers again and fruit trees, for picking fruit, will be planted. In between the fields we will plant hedges, so people can walk freely.”

By recreating the old landscape plants will be chosen to attract animals.

“This estate is so special because it is still intact. Since 1908 nothing has changed to the fields, the patterns of the houtwal (hedge of trees), canals, small meadows and woods. This is the landscape of 1908. We see exactly the same as people of that time who were standing on this spot.”

In the ‘schoppe’ is a waste tank.

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Relaxed waking up in the countryside in special holiday houses. Holiday in a centuries old castle, an idyllic country house or a historical farm. Look for all possibilities on: www.natuurmonumenten.nl/activiteiten/vakanties/vakantiewoningen

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and a plot with brushwood. There is an old farm, a coach house, a gardener’s house, a washing room, standing fruit trees, a vineyard and a hot house with grapes.

From the villa the old, castle-like water tower (from 1912) is visible, that provided their own water supply to the estate. “One of the most important features of the estate is that it was entirely self-sufficient,” ranger Cor Jansen says. “Their own livestock provided meat and milk, vegetables were grown in the vegie-patch. The wood of their own trees was used to heat the stoves. The to its own glory restored hot house for grapes from 1915 still provided grapes to bottle their own house wine ‘Chateau Oud Groevenbeek’.”

Hard work Natuurmonumenten bought the estate in 1968 of the then owner mister P.A. van Schermbeek. In 1990 the renovation plan was made. Jansen: “The aim was to bring it back to the old style as close as possible. That turned out to be hard work. They needed special large bricks that had to be baked especially. The hothouse was demolished and rebuilt again. The windows of the hothouse had to be made in Czechia. The ironwork and the original wheels to open the windows have been restored and reattached.”

During the renovation the building experts paid a lot of attention to details and the reapplying of the authentic colours.

Estate Oud Groevenbeek Estate Oud Groevenbeek has been renovated by Natuurmonumenen and brought back to its original style. It is now possible to spend holidays in the villa.

The estate is between Ermelo and Putten and spans 224 hectare. The stylish villa, originating from 1907, stands out because of the tower and the coloured tiles on the outside walls. The estate is surrounded by woods, beautiful views, colourful flowerbeds, agricultural land

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The hunting room To record the life on the estate as accurate as possible, Jansen spoke to people who worked on the estate. “With the help of a former maid we could regain the old naming of the rooms. Then we discovered that the room we had named ‘the hunting room’ never had that function.” Not just the style, but also the selfsufficient character of the estate will be reinstated.

“The heaters and the hot water service will be heated by wood from the estate. The former shed has been adjusted to fuel house. We want to bring back the smell and colours of the past on the estate.

Everyone who visits Oud Groevenbeek as a walker or holiday maker, has to get the impression that they return to the rich land life of 1900 for a little while.”

Holiday making At Oud Groevenbeek different stylish holiday apartments are for rent.

An apartment is accessible by a lift and adjusted for wheelchair users. The royal and comfortable apartments have a living room, bedroom, kitchen and bathroom.

A comprehensive network of walking paths along the estate, the Volenbeek and the burial mounds to the Groevenbeek moor. The Groevenbeek path has facilities for visually handicapped people and is also accessible for people in wheelchairs.

was reopened five years later as pannekoekenrestaurant.

The beautiful restored front house can be rented for a holiday. A maximum of six people can enjoy this beautiful spot where Scottish highlanders, deer and boars regularly wander about. The pancake restaurant on the other side of the building is opened during the day and has a marvellous terrace.

Holiday house Carolinahoeve Holiday house Carolinahoeve is in the middle of the idyllic landscape of Nationaal Park Veluwezoom. About 1900, the tenant sold pancakes on the Carolinahoeve.

Later the farm was used as boarding house and tea house. One of the guests was cabaret performer Wim Kan. After its closure in 1973 he, together with -amongst others- Simon Carmiggelt, organised a successful action to safe the Carolinahoeve. The farm was renovated and

(Source Natuurmonumenten)

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Preparing to keep the thirteen rusks that come in a roll fresh. For for crisis this we can thank Verkade, management the Dutch company from

Zaandam that first started selling their rusks in a tin in order to preserve their freshness.

Although, I must admit to not owning a tin myself, and to not eating a whole lot of rusks, I still have a Crisis management has been aweakness late-comer forinthem and will management theory and practice, but major happily indulge in them environmental and industrial disasters the 1980s from timeinto time.

Espemarked an awakening of its importance.

Probably thein cially if they’re topped notion that it gains only urgency when something one of the followinggoes ways. dreadfully wrong, usually totally unexpectedly, positions Perhaps a bit of inspiration, it low on the list of management priorities.

Secondly, should you want to try it involves a considerable cost that may not be directly something other than the recouped. The smaller the organisation the lesstoppings. this cost more traditional appears justified perhaps.

Beschuit Vitello Tonato: Tuna salad, thinly sliced veal and Listening recently to Rinske Geerling’s presentation to a capers receptive‘Cupcake’: Dutch LinkCream audience one flavoured soon realizes this Beschuit cheese withthat sugar is dangerous shortsighted management thinking, often and vanilla, sliced strawberries and freshly-grated dark very costly as well. Her business “Business as Usual” chocolate suggests thatBeschuit: an entire Sliced raft ofavocado, preventive measures Green Mean lime juice, olive oil and operational substitutes should be in place to get and garden cress the business back in action as soon as possible.

Such Beschuit Italiano: Pesto, mozzarella, cherry tomato and continuity is obviously a major plus for any organization. basil The dangers are realSoft andgoat’s manycheese, actuallybaby well spinach known in Sunshine Beschuit: and Australia: major floods, huge fires, storm damage, oil sun-dried tomatoes spills, strikes, drought,Scrambled power failures, andblack sieges.

Rinske’s Beschuit Parisienne: egg with truffle emphasis is on ability to cope with the situation as Beschuit Elvis: Peanut butter and sliced banana effectiveBeschuit: as possible.

In aManchego broader long-term perspective, Spanish Sliced cheese and figs the need for permanent changes for an organization Nordic Beschuit: Cream cheese, smoked salmon and presents chives itself as well. In many cases those without a chopped plan (50%) do Beschuit: not reopen at all; and 90%chopped fail within two Nutty Nutella Nutella hazelnuts

Rinske Geerlings

THE CLOG BARN Experience the colour & charm of Holland without leaving Coffs Harbour

years. So when serious trouble hits the fan: What is your plan? If there is a plan, are staff entirely familiar with it? Are the substitute operations ready to role? Have all staff trained sufficiently to be ready to perform, etc.

Being fully ready could not only save a lot of money but actually increase turnover and profits. Part of any plan should be to have the necessary insurance of course. Is the business ready to deal with the press? What happens if some staff cannot reach the organization on account of fire, failing transport services, flood or strikes, etc. Or if staff have to deal with pressing issues at home? Are there pre-arranged alternates in the organisation? Could there be any possible language difficulties? What if the power outages stop the mobile network, etc. An example was presented: the Blue Chip Bank’s Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan and their training plan.

Yet, many business are indeed not prepared for such calamities or only half prepared. So Business as Usual would be hard for them to achieve. To be fully prepared would probably still be rather unusual! So, get in touch with Business as Usual.

An excellent, entertaining power point presentation by Rinske who is not only a business woman but also a Jazz and Latin singer.

Klaas Woldring, DACC

Clog Barn Take a leisurely browse through the Clog Barn, where you will discover a treasure of souvenirs - e.g. Delft blue pottery - and special gifts and fascinating daily clog making demonstrations. You can also view the North Coast’s largest collection of Diecast Collectable cars and motorbikes.

Clog Making Demonstrations 3 times daily 11am, 2pm and 4pm.

www.clogbarn.com.au

Dutch Village

Don’t miss OMA’S COFFEE HOUSE Delicious meals Dutch pancakes, Croquettes, Uitsmijter, Bitterballen, Poffertjes

Take a delightful stroll around the model Dutch Village with working windmills and working trains! Free admission to the Dutch Village.

A Family Fun Adventure

215 Pacific Highway, Coffs Harbour phone: 02 6652 4633 open 7 days from 8 am

picture by Piero Falchetta

DUTCH EXPLORERS MAPPING THE WORLD Cartography or mapmaking has been a part of history for thousands of years. From ancient cave paintings to the clay tablets of the ancient Babylonians (see image left); through to the ancient maps of the advanced Greek philosophers and Claudius Ptolemaeus’s ‘world map’, based on an earth-centered system where the sun, stars and moon rotate around a round ‘flat’ earth. The only civilisation that diverted from the round, flat earth theory were the Chinese, who believed that the earth was not only flat, but it was square, until the astronomer Zhang Heng (78 – 139 AD) described the earth as the ‘yolk of the universe’ lying in the centre.

After the dark ages, the European Mediaeval and Renaissance cartographers created the most artistic and colourful depictions of the earth as they envisaged it. An example of this beautiful depiction by Fra Mauro in the 15th century is pictured above. words Monica de Knecht 42

On this page a comical portrayal of the flat earth as a disc or sphere and a traveller arriving at the edge of the world poking his head through the firmament by an unknown 19th century engraver, dubbed the Flammarion engraving, because it appeared in a book by Nicolas Flammarion, the French astronomer. It is amazing that the very advanced Chinese held this theory until the 17th century. There is even now the International Flat Earth Society founded by an Englishman of the name of Samuel Shenton in 1956. It became inactive in 2001, but was resurrected in 2004 by Daniel Shenton. Strange but true!

Nevertheless, the practical Dutch were the first to replace the mediaeval fantasy maps with the actual observations of their explorers from the 16th century onwards. The great Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator was the first to use the term “atlas” for a collection of maps. He was the first to invent a way of creating the globe on a flat sheet of paper and he drew the latitudes and longitudes at right angles, instead of curves. His maps enabled explorers to “plot a straight line course and preserve direction much more accurately”. (Cannon, 1929).

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Loekie (YouTube)

To digress a little; we are all familiar with the Dutch Lion as the representation of the Netherlands. The Order of the Netherlands Lion founded by William I, King of the Netherlands was, until recently, used to bestow honours on individuals from all walks of life, military, religious and secular, who had performed great services to the Netherlands. Now the Order of Orange Nassau has taken its place, but the Order of the Lion is still given to those who perform exceptional services in the arts, literature and sport and the Order of the Lion is never given to foreigners, who can only be awarded the Order of the Crown or Orange Nassau.

On a more flippant note everyone knows about Loekie de Leeuw (Loekie the Lion) the cartoon character on Dutch television.

The great Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator was the first to use the term ‘atlas’ for a collection of maps.

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However I wonder if you knew that the Lion of the Netherlands was first used on a map in 1513 by Michael Eytzinger to portray the Netherlands with its then 17 provinces, as most of them used a lion in their coats of armour. When the Peace of Westphalia was signed in 1648 the lion was used to represent the new nation with its seven united provinces and official recognition of their independence (Wilson, 1987).

It stands to reason that some of these numerous maps printed by the Dutch publishing and printing houses would fall into the hands of a young English Lieutenant named James Cook, who only had to travel along routes earlier discovered by the Dutch and “Bingo!” he found the east coast of New Holland, because he insisted “on the western side I can make no new discoveries, the honour of which belongs to the Dutch navigators” (Cook, J) Cook was actually looking for another great South Land apart from New Holland. He was disappointed at just finding an east coast of what had already been discovered. It was not until Flinders and Bass circumnavigated New Holland that it was realised that New Holland was indeed Terra Australis (the Great Southern Land).

Although Cook was one of the greatest navigators known, he was also a brilliant cartographer; but the British did not use their printing houses to use his or other British discoveries and charts to produce international maps. Neither did any of the other European nations.

They only logged everything to be used for their own maritime use, not globally as the Dutch publishers did so profusely. It is known that approximately one third of the world was discovered by Dutch explorers and therefore their accurate navigation and mapmaking replaced the artistic speculation of other nations. They can truly be acknowledged as the ultimate mapmakers of the globe.

A school of mapmakers and printers flourished in Holland to try and keep pace with the rapid expansion of the Dutch empire and the VOC’s conquests. Even though the Italian, Galileo and the Englishman, Newton made improvements on the telescope, it was first developed by a Dutch optician named Hans Lippershey. This enabled ready communication with other ships at sea and recognising enemy flags and could even spot “rippling water or waves that signalled danger” (Cannon, 1929) and eventually the development of full and accurate navigation which was then charted and recorded by the skilled Dutch mapmakers.

Dutch explorers were instructed to report all observations in great detail. Hence, the countless ships sent out by the VOC in the seventeenth century with explorers such as Janszoon, Hartog, Houtman, Tasman, Carstenz, Thijssen, Nuyts to name just a few; enabled the printing houses of Holland to produce constantly revised maps of the Great South Land, which was first called Hollandia Nova or New Holland by Abel Tasman in 1644.

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Mercator world map, 1569, composite photo by Wilhelm Krucken

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES Cannon, Michael, 1929, National Library Cataloguing in The Exploration of Australia, Reader’s Digest 1987, NSW Wilson, Charles, 1987 ‘Rebellion Liberty and Nationhood in the Divided Netherlands’ in The Golden Age of Europe edited by Hugh Trevor Roper.

The Journals of Captain James Cook, in Captain Cook in Australia edited by A.W. Reed, published by A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne. Levi, Peter Atlas of the Greek World, Phaidon Press, Oxford, 1987.

The concept of ‘the wallbed’ has been around for a long time. While we may remember them from old American movies (the Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges always seemed to enjoy them), they have continually been produced and installed, and are now enjoying a major resurgence in North America and Europe.

TILT-AWAY BEDS Tiltaway can provide standard side cabinets, or they can design cabinetry to suit a client’s individual situation.

With a range of finishes available, these beds can be an attractive addition to a home or unit, while adding significant value to the investment.

Phone 0439 807 957 www.tiltawaybeds.com.au

Tiltaway wallbeds (also known as Murphy beds) are now available in Australia and are proving to be just as popular here as overseas. With the bed cabinet protruding only 403mm from the wall, they create space in any area including the home office, the spare room, the caravan, or student accommodation.

Because of their light, finger tip operation, they are even appropriate for granny flats. They fold away fully made up (including doona and pillows) so they are an ‘instant bed’.

Tiltaway Bed’s mechanism’s are manufactured in Canada and come with a 15 year warranty.

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kiwikorrels

Is het schoensmeer, fruit, mens of vogel?

Frans Hertoghs

Deze kiwi met zijn pluizige veren is de onbetwiste wereldkampioen reuze-eieren leggen. Zo’n ei haalt gemakkelijk de 430 gram en loopt soms op tot dicht bij de halve kilo. Het zijn de grootste van de wereld in verhouding tot zijn eigen afmetingen. Zo’n twintig procent van zijn moeders’ eigen massa. En zijn poten zijn zo stevig dat een volwassen vogel zich kan verdedigen tegen kleinere roofdieren. Maar daar moet onze kiwi het wel mee doen.

Tegen katten, honden heeft hij geen schijn van kans.

Dat is niet zo moeilijk. Ze zijn het allemaal, echte kiwi’s. De beste schoensmeer van de wereld, de Chinese vruchten waarmee Nieuw-Zeeland zo succesvol de boer op ging, de Nieuw-Zeelander zelf en de loopvogel die het symbool geworden is van het land, zijn fruitje, zijn schoensmeer en zijn bewoners.

Hoewel? Is de kiwi eigenlijk nog wel een vogel? Het begint er al mee dat deze bosbewoner niet kan vliegen.

Hij heeft wel een paar vleugels, maar die zijn rudimentair en niet groter dan een luciferdoosje, zo’n vijf centimeter.

Ook de staart is verwaarloosbaar. Hij heeft eigenlijk maar drie echte uitsteeksels die er mogen zijn: één snavel en twee poten. Daar moet hij alles mee doen. Verder is hij bijna blind. Zelfs zijn botten zijn niet meer hol. Daar zit gewoon merg in. Over handicaps gesproken.

Ze behoren tot de familie der ratites, de rallen. Recent DNA-onderzoek heeft aangetoond dat ze merkwaardig genoeg nauwer verwant zijn aan de uitgestorven olifantsvogels van Madagascar dan aan de ook al uitgestorven moa’s van Nieuw-Zeeland.

Hoe kan zo’n dier met zo weinig uitsteeksels overleven?

Vroeger was dat geen probleem. Toen waren er geen mensen, roof- of huisdieren en vooral geen eierrovers zoals hermelijnen, wezels en ratten. En er was ook nog meer dan genoeg bos om te schuilen. Tegenwoordig komen er van de eerste steeds meer en van het oerbos steeds minder. Maar vijf op de honderd kuikens halen de volwassenheid. Enkele tientallen jaren geleden waren er nog meer dan honderdduizend en tegenwoordig wordt het totale aantal op niet meer dan twintigduizend geschat.

Toch is het geen invalide. Bij de grootste soort, de Grote Gevlekte Grijze kiwi hebben de vrouwtjes een lengte van bijna een halve meter (45 cm.) en een gewicht van 3,3 kilo! De mannetjes zijn iets kleiner. En hij kan zich prima verdedigen met zijn stevige poten, drie tenen en een spoor aan de achterkant, net als bij hanen. En hij is snel als de wind en kan harder lopen dan een mens.

Je ziet ze eigenlijk nooit. Het zijn nachtdieren en ze struinen het bos af op zoek naar kleine insecten en wormen. Daarvoor is die speciale lange kromme snavel, die bovenaan een bosje haren als voelsprieten heeft en – ook al heel bijzonder – echte neusgaten helemaal aan het puntje. Er zijn dan ook niet veel mensen die ooit een kiwi in het wild hebben gezien. Wie een kiwi wil

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ze rond onze voeten, misschien hopend dat wij met onze lompe poten wat insecten of kleine strandkrabbetjes zouden verstoren. Eén begon aan een loshangende schoenveter te trekken, alsof het de lekkerste worm was van het hele strand. Uiteindelijk besloten ze dat we niet de moeite waard waren en verdwenen weer in de bosrand, luidkeels tegen elkaar schreeuwend. Wij bleven alleen achter.

zien die niet slaapt als een blok, die moet in dierentuinen in een nachthok gaan kijken. Als je ogen aan het duister gewend zijn zie je een vogelachtige gedaante die in plaats van verwoed de bosgrond op te spitten gezapig zijn gehakt eet uit een schoteltje. Wie uit is op spectaculaire waarnemingen kan daar maar het best uit de buurt blijven.

Toch is het mij gelukt om kiwi’s in het wild te zien. Sterker nog, ik had ze kunnen aanraken. Een geheim strand op Steward Island is een verzamelplaats voor kiwi’s die er zich tegoed doen aan de insecten die zich verstoppen onder bosjes zeewier.

Bij het licht van de sterren en een nageltje maan zagen we ze uit de bosrand komen, luid schreeuwend met hun pauwachtig stemgeluid. Want een minderwaardigheidscomplex hebben ze niet. Ons kleine groepje stond daar bij elkaar en de vier of vijf vogels besloten even langs te lopen om eens een kijkje te nemen. Parmantig stapten

Lithographic plate by John Gerrard Keulemans (1842–1912)

Dinosaurussen die eerst vleugels en veren ontwikkeld hebben om te kunnen vliegen en die daarna de vleugels en zelfs de staart weer verloren omdat ze niet meer nodig waren. Vogels die op geen enkele manier gehandicapt is, maar die nu door de evolutie zijn ingehaald. Zulke vogels verdienen het voort te leven. Niet alleen als schoensmeer, mensen of fruit.

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Dutch Cuisine The original Brabantse Koffietafel photo Dennal

Origin In the olden days the Brabantse koffietafel was an abundant meal, which was served to the neighbours during slaughter season. This custom originates from Noord Brabant.

Slowly the meal cultivated to a more formal one. Farmer’s soup, several different sorts of bread like rye bread, Krentenmik, Peperkoek, worstenbroodje (this editions recipe), balkenbrij (last editions recipe), fresh butter, cheese, several varieties of ham, like ham of the bone, parma ham etc., salami, zult, golden syrup, honey, jams, hagelslag (chocolate sprinkles) loads of coffee or tea with sugar and fresh milk and brandy with sugar was served.

As it is an easy way to serve a lot of people at the same time it is quite often used after a funeral and with celebrations like a baptism.

Noord Brabant is a province in the South of the Netherlands. The capital is ’s Hertogenbosch, but more often called Den Bosch, which is my home town.

The largest town is Eindhoven and for the soccer fans: the home town of PSV.

St Jan’s Cathedral in Den Bosch, photo: Ingo Ronner

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Brabants worstenbroodje, makes about 30 Similar to a sausage rol but the dough used is different.

To prepare the dough 1kg white flower 60gr yeast 20gr salt180 gr butter 500 – 600 ml water Mix all ingredients. When using a kitchen machine knead at least 12 minutes, by hand at least 20 minutes.

Dough will be properly done when you can roll it out thinly without the dough tearing apart.

Divide into balls of 35 gr each, about the same size as a golf ball. This needs to rest for about 10 minutes Flatten the balls and place sausage on it. Place sausage more to one side of the dough and fold over the other side. Press the sides together.

Lillian

Sausage mix 1 ½ kg minced meat 20gr spices, like pepper and any other spice you like Some extra salt

Mix the minced meat with all the spices and divide into 30 sausages.

Preaheat over to 250 degrees Bake the little breadrolls in about 7 to 8 minutes Eat warm.

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Dialect used in Brabant, most of you will know Houdoe, which means goodbye.

Brabants Vertaling Affesere Haast maken, opschieten Bedinne Relaxen, even niet zeuren Durske Deerne, meisje Golliepaop Scheldwoord; “gollie paop” = “Gallische

Paus”, naar de Franse pausen uit de

14e eeuw.

Griesele Harken Houdoe Afscheidsgroet; “houd oe” =

“houd je (goed)” Meepesant En passant, tegelijkertijd Petazzie Stamp (stamppot) Schottelslet Vaatdoekje Tesnuzzik Zakdoek Zibbedeeske Een verlegen, beetje zeurderig,

beetje sullig oud vrouwtje.

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Met een fris brein

TaalsTaaltje door Frans Hertoghs

beheerst scoort op latere leeftijd veel beter bij lezen en begrijpen. Het verouderingsproces blijkt dus door een tweede taal aanzienlijk te worden vertraagd.

De eeuwige jeugd is niemand gegeven. Misschien maar goed ook. Maar een lang en gelukkig leven is natuurlijk wat we allemaal wĂŠl graag willen. En laten we eerlijk zijn, ouder worden heeft ook zo zijn voordelen. Voor sommige mensen is het zelfs de gelukkigste tijd van hun leven. En toch is het evengoed niet leuk om te zien dat je geestelijke vermogens achteruit gaan.

Onderzoek Het onderzoek is een halve eeuw geleden al gestart, in 1947. Toen werden ruim achthonderd kinderen getest op hun intelligentie. Ze waren toen elf. Op hun zeventigste werden ze opnieuw getest om te kijken of en in hoeverre ze in intelligentie achteruit waren gegaan. En wat bleek?

Een derde van de deelnemers was aanzienlijk beter dan het gemiddelde. En wie waren dat? Dat waren de mensen die in de tijd na het onderzoek, op latere leeftijd dus, een tweede taal hadden geleerd.

Vergelijkingsmateriaal Het onderzoek is zo uniek omdat de onderzoekers negenenvijftig jaar later rekening konden houden met de begin-intelligentie van de proefpersonen. Ze konden niet alleen de uitkomsten meten, maar ook de vooruitgang of afbraak van de intelligentie. Uiteindelijk kwam het aanleren van een tweede taal of meerdere talen als gemeenschappelijk kenmerk van het succes vanzelf als belangrijkste oorzaak aan het licht.

Training Maar is dat wel nodig? Kun je helemaal niets tegen die afbrokkeling doen? Jazeker, toch wel. Je brein kun je net zo goed trainen als je lichaam. Of misschien zelfs beter. In actie blijven, lezen, puzzelen, praten en discussiĂŤren, het helpt allemaal. Het zijn allemaal goede hulpmiddelen om zelf nog lang van je brein te genieten en anderen te kunnen helpen. En misschien de allerbeste hulp is een tweede taal.

Baanbrekend Daar is de laatste tijd baanbrekend wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar gedaan. Zo werd kort geleden een groot universitair onderzoek in Edinburgh afgerond.

Daaruit bleek dat een tweede taal het ouderdomsproces van het brein aanzienlijk vertraagt. Wie een tweede taal

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Vertraagd Het verouderingsproces wordt dus flink vertraagd door het aanleren van een tweede taal. En het interessante is, dat het daarbij niet uitmaakt wanneer die tweede taal is geleerd. Je hoeft er dus niet mee opgegroeid te zijn. Je kunt die tweede taal ook best op latere leeftijd geleerd hebben. Zelfs als je er vandaag pas mee begint kun je al een verschil maken.

Opfrissen De onderzoekers hebben zich bij deze belangwekkende conclusie niet uitgelaten over wat er precies in het brein gebeurde. Maar neurologische onderzoeken hebben al eerder aangetoond dat je door het leren van een nieuwe taal automatisch fonkelnieuwe hersencellen gaat aanmaken.

Je brein wordt dus groter en daardoor komen er ook meer en nieuwe verbindingen tot stand. Het frist er van op.

Taal is kijken en denken Voor taalkundigen is het duidelijk dat het leren van een tweede taal is het leren van een andere manier van kijken en denken. Wie een andere taal leert, produceert automatisch een andere kijk op zijn of haar wereld.

Het is alsof je in een gezapig oud huis ineens een muur doorbreekt en er een venster inzet waardoor je naar een heel nieuw stuk van de wereld kunt kijken.

Andere wereld Er gaat een frisse wind door de stoffige ruimten waaien, woorden en begrippen die muurvast zaten worden opnieuw geladen en gerangschikt, ervaringen krijgen een nieuwe dimensie.

De krakende wagen wordt geolied en begint weer gesmeerd te lopen. Alsof je verjongd wakker wordt in een andere wereld.

Jong hondje En denk nu niet dat je voortdurend woordjes moet leren of onregelmatige werkwoorden of duizenden uitzonderingen. Maak liever gebruik van de nieuwste en speelsere ontwikkelingen in het aanleren van een tweede taal: zing een lied in de andere taal of leer een gedicht van meerdere regels van buiten. Leer de woorden uitspreken en zing of zeg ze hardop. Al pratend en zingend zet je allebei de helften van je brein in beweging.

Vul die grotere stukken tekst daarna aan met kleine handige woordjes van alledag, zoals Goedemorgen, welkom, hoe gaat het, mag ik een kop thee, wat een mooie dag vandaag! Begin die te pas en te onpas te gebruiken. Hou het kort en simpel.

Je zult zien dat de nieuwe taal vanzelf als een jong hondje naar je toe komt.

Praten met anderen Het helpt ook als je mensen kent die die taal al spreken.

Zoek ze op en probeer naar ze te luisteren en mee te praten. Je hoeft er geen examen in te doen, je hoeft alleen maar meer plezier te krijgen in je eigen verrassende leren, het gevoel dat je weer vooruit gaat.

Met een frisse wind in je zeilen.

De eeuwige jeugd is niemand gegeven. Maar ouder worden is geen doodlopende weg. Het is een aanloop naar nog ouder worden. Met frisse adem en een even fris brein. http://www.nu.nl/wetenschap/3791372/leren-vantweede-taal-vertraagt-ouderdomsproces-.html Wie elke week bij zijn mail een fris TaalsTaaltje wil ontvangen, stuurt een mailtje naar TaalsTaalabonnement@gmail.com Je krijgt het gratis, zonder reclame of verplichtingen toegestuurd, mĂŠt een originele taalpuzzel Het kan ook weer heel eenvoudig afgezegd worden.

photo: Lingvopedia

Myth, Legend or Story? words Henry van Zanden

For instance: Coincidence 1 It was the right timeframe for the Vergulde Draeck. ‘... their fathers came there about one hundred and seventy years ago.’ This would bring the approximate date to 1662 which is not far removed from 1656, the date of the shipwreck.

Since he was a boy, Heinrich Schliemann had a dream that he would excavate the ruins of the ‘mythical’ city of Troy. Using the geographical features outlined in Homer’s ancient Iliad, Schliemann discovered a city that was supposed to only have existed as the Legend of Troy.

There have been many examples where a myth or legend has proved to have some historical accuracy. The same could be said for some Aboriginal myths as well as the Leeds Mercury article that outlined the discovery of a white tribe in 1832 by an English explorer. (DISCOVERY OF A WHITE COLONY ON THE NORTHERN SHORE OF NEW HOLLAND, 1834) Initially I was quite sceptical of the validity of the Leeds Mercury article but, like every lead, I followed it up until the lead became exhausted. As I poured through the detail, coincidences started to mount up with the shipwreck details of the Vergulde Draeck.

Coincidence 2 The number of survivors is almost the same. ‘... eighty men and ten of their sisters ... were saved on shore.’

Although there were 68 Vergulde Draeck survivors, a further 11 men had become marooned from the rescue ships that arrived in 1657, the total number of survivors becomes 79, one short of the same number recorded in the Leeds Mercury article.

Coincidence 3 The Leeds Mercury article gave the location of the settlement somewhere in the middle of Australia. However, not far removed from 1832, the prime meridian (zero degrees longitude) was not Greenwich in England, but the island of Tenerife. When we convert the longitude to the much used Spanish and Portuguese longitude, the site of the settlement falls somewhere along the Western Australian coast. The article also stated that they travelled ‘towards the rising sun’ meaning that they travelled from west to east.

Coincidence 4 The story of their shipwreck fits perfectly with the Vergulde Draeck story. ‘Their traditional history is, that their fathers were compelled by famine, after the loss of their great vessel, to travel towards the rising sun, carrying with them as much of the stores as they could, during which many died; and by the wise advice of their ten sisters they crossed a ridge of land, and meeting with a rivulet on the other side, followed its course and were led to the spot they now inhabit, where they have continued ever since.’

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Coincidence 5 The site of the Lost White Tribe had to have

enough stone to build a wall. …I gathered from him a few particulars of a most extraordinary nature: namely, that he belonged to a small community, all as white as himself, he said about three hundred; that they lived in houses enclosed all together within a great wall to defend them from black men…

This is one of two locations where there is plenty of stone at the Lake Garagan site.

Coincidence 6 Explorer, Ensign Dale, coincidentally explored a region along the same adjusted longitude as the Leeds Mercury and circled a very large lake.

Coincidence 7 Not long after Dale’s return to the Swan River Colony, Governor Stirling made an unscheduled return to England bringing with him a publication of Explorer journals and a map detailing the areas explored. However, there was one major omission: Dale’s northern exploration despite it being detailed on the explorer’s map and Dale discovering a significant body of water.

Coincidence 8 Stirling, upon his return, banned any survey, exploration

or land claim in the proximity of the site of the Lost White Tribe. The law made it impossible for any settlement to occur for at least 50 km from Lake Garagan.

Coincidence 9 Perth Aboriginals called white men, ‘Waylo’ men or men from the north. However, the term Waylo had already been in existence before the arrival of the British in 1829.

Waylo country is in the same region as Lake Garagan.

This particular tribe had a very different way of speaking.

Aboriginals described the Perth white people as speaking like the Waylo men from the north. The following was reported by George Fletcher Moore.

‘April 2lst. ...The Perth natives now say that the Perth white men speak “English plenty,” meaning broken English, but that I speak like a Waylo man, that is, a man from the North. Waylo is the name of the district we visited.’ (1835) Coincidence 10 The famous warrior chief Yagan related to a settler Robert Lyons who helped him draw a map of Waylo territory.

Coincidentally, there was a very large lake also in the approximate adjusted longitude of the Leeds Mercury.

Coincidence 11 Yagen is pronounced similarly to the Dutch Jagen which means to hunt, pursue, chase and capture game animals. A jager is a huntsman or was also used to describe a soldier in the rifles.

Yagan statue. Heirisson Island, Perth, Western Australia.

The statue was sculpted in 1984 by Robert Hitchcock. photo: Nachoman-au

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Coincidence 12 He also had two sons, Willim and Naral – also Dutch names given to them before the arrival of the British.

Their mother’s name was Moyren – a European name.

goblet or bowl and was perhaps a drinking hole. Mulle means loose, sandy earth or loose earth. The Bookal was probably a stream that ran off the Mooler River (Moore River.)

Coincidence 13 Waal in Dutch means river and walk or fallen means rampart, shore or embankment. The ‘o’ on the end of Waylo was sometimes added by the Aboriginals to describe a body of water, such as a lake or river, with the addition of an ‘o’ sound.

Walloon is also a geographical place in Belgium which has a very large river surrounded by stone walls on the hillside overlooking the river which sounds very much like the description in the Leeds Mercury article.

Coincidence 15 Augustus Oldfield’s account of a Lost White Tribe ‘A long time ago, there were two tribes living on the banks of a large river, one (blacks) inhabiting the southern side, and the other (whites) residing on the opposite shores. For many years the two tribes were on amicable terms, intermarrying, merrymaking, and fighting with each other, and so it continued, until by and by a change in the sentiments of the northmen took place. These whites were evidently the superior of the two races; for they were more powerful, athletic and agile than the blacks, and made better spears, boomerangs and other arms, and, what is of greater importance, could use them more efficiently than the poor southmen, as the latter learnt to their cost. At length, proud of their superiority, these northmen refused to hold any intercourse with their southern neighbours, save and excepting in the matter of fighting, in which diversion the advantage was always on the side of these insolent whites.

Coincidence 14 Lyon wrote in some detail of the geographical names of the tribes and areas surrounding the Waylo territory.

Words such as Byer, Bookal, and Mooler all have a Dutch sound. For example, the Dutch word, Bokaal, means cup,

Compare this to the Leeds Mercury: ‘All the young, from ten up to a certain age, are considered a standing militia, and are armed with long pikes.’

Things continued in this state for a vast number of years, till one day it began to rain, and poured incessantly for many months, and the river overflowing its banks the blacks were forced to retire before the rising waters, and this way they were driven far away from their own country. The flood was long in their ebbing as it had been in rising, and thus it was long ere they regained their old hunting grounds, as they had to follow the subsiding waters; but arrived there, what was to their astonishment to find, in place of the fordable river they had left, that the impassable sea rolled to the north of them, and that their late haughty neighbours had entirely disappeared, and they were never to be seen or heard of by the black men.’

In 2013, I brought with me to the site a landscape archaeologist, Dr Heather Builth who confirmed that the Moore River once flowed directly into a huge lake. In 1833, a massive flood occurred which changed the direction of the Moore River. It now flowed not into the lakes but the Indian Ocean.

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Coincidence 16 ‘A Great Flood which covered all the land’ Coincidentally the Leeds Mercury article matches the Legend of the Great Flood as recounted by one of Australia’s most important anthropologists, Daisy Bates.

She wrote: There were vague traditions extant amongst some of the South-western tribes of a great flood which once covered all the land except certain hills …In the Gin Gin district, it is said that a long time ago there was a great flood which once covered all the land except Mindangup Hill and on this hill all the animals took refuge. The people also went to the top, but they were afraid to kill the kangaroos until they became very hungry.

After some days the water went down and the kangaroos and the people spread themselves over the country.

the descendants of the mutineers Captain Pelsaert left behind… As for the Australian natives’ hair, I have noticed that in the west it is not wooly but straight, and often fair enough to make a European envious.’

I have been criticised for using stories by Aboriginals, newspaper accounts, and explorer’s journals or is this just a coincidence?

For Father’s Day, I will gift wrap, autograph, enclose a card and post to any address in Australia.

Coincidence 17 In relation to where the Lost White Tribe ended up, probably the Irwin River Valley; Salvado from the New Norcia mission wrote in the 1840s that: ‘They told me through one of the mission natives that near the coast, four days journey north of New Norcia there were other white men. After looking into this matter I came to the conclusion that these could well be

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SkinVision A revolutionary solution to check your skin health yourself

A recent study done by Euromelanoma, a pan-European skin cancer campaign, indicates that 54% of the people deaths caused by melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, could have been prevented. Another study shows one out of five people will be treated for skin cancer during their life. To bring these percentages down, SkinVision, an app to check and keep track of your skin health, was developed by the eponymous Dutch/Rumanian startup.

words Ton van Rooij

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previous page: With the SkinVision app, the eponymous company wants to increase early detection of skin cancer as first priority to prevent melanoma, the worst kind of skin cancer. above: After a picture of a mole has been taken with a smartphone using the SkinVision app, it is analysed online with a special algorithm, resulting in a ultrareliable outcome. right: Former skin cancer patient and SkinVision user Caroline Pownall: “It’s enormously convenient to be able to check your skin at all times and anywhere in the world.”

This algorithm uses ‘fractal geometry’, a mathematical theory that is widely used and documented in biology and can also be applied for medical imaging. The algorithm is used to calculate the fractal dimension of skin lesions and surrounding skin tissue and builds a structural map that reveals the different growth patterns of the tissues involved.

As Dick Uyttewaal, CEO of SkinVision since March 2013, explains: “Our analysis function searches for signs of unnatural growth in a photo made of a mole and is now looking at seven different criteria for this analysis. Skin cancer grows chaotically, often from moles, so if a mole shows chaotic growth characteristics, this could be a sign of skin cancer.”

It was actually a PhD study to apply fractal geometry for medical imaging that spawned the founding of the firm SkinVision in Bucharest, Romania, in 2011. A year later, the organisation moved to Amsterdam. “The student who conducted this study, Andreea Udrea, was connected to the mathematics faculty of the University of Bucharest, Rumania,” says Uyttewaal. “She applied this well-documented mathematical theory – simulation of natural growth in biology – for the first time in medical images and specifically those of suspicious moles. She is now the leader of our research department, still based in Bucharest, where the algorithm is being further improved and is being expanded to other serious skin diseases.”

Already now, the mobile solution shows huge potential.

How SkinVision works When using the SkinVision app, you start out by making a photo of a suspicious spot on your skin. This picture is stored into a secure online personal gallery, accessible from both the app and the website www.skinvision.com.

Subsequently, an online risk assessment is carried out, determining potential non-natural growth of pigmented moles on your skin that could be an indication for skin cancer. It provides a risk rating for the mole in each form of a traffic light colour that helps you select the moles that should be tracked for changes over time. Your personal gallery enables you to compare pictures taken at various moments and share photos with a doctor. The SkinVision website also grants you access to all kinds of useful features, such as ultraviolet radiation forecast, forums or finding a dermatologist in your area.

Especially vulnerable to contract skin cancer are people who spend or have spent a lot of time outside in the sun, people with a pale skin, red hair, more than 50 moles, more than three striking birthmarks and/or a family history of melanoma. Among women in the age range of 25 to 35 years, it’s the most frequently occurring kind of cancer.

Unique risk assessment method It is SkinVision’s in-house developed algorithm that is the ‘recipe of the cook’, making this solution unlike any other skin analysis app.

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“In 80% of all cases, the app can recognise nonmelanoma skin cancer with certainty, and in 95% of all cases with great probability,” Uyttewaal is pleased to say.

For now, the company is focused predominantly on marketing the app, currently used by over 200,000 people worldwide, in Europe and Australia. Uyttewaal: “We look at countries in which skin cancer is widespread and at the size of the market. The Netherlands is in the top three of countries where many people die of melanoma, while in Australia, the incidence is the largest of all.”

Scientifically proven The accuracy of the online assessment using the algorithm has been tested scientifically in 2013 at the dermatology clinic of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. This clinic is one of Europe’s premier academic and research institutions specialised in skin cancer. The LMU dermatologist who led the study, Tanja von Braunmühl, states: “SkinVision is a promising solution for awareness and self-detection for individuals and a new communication platform between doctor and individual.”

The Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, is currently conducting groundbreaking scientific research to see to what extent SkinVision can help recognise other types of skin cancer than melanoma. Dr. Monique Thissen, one of the hospital’s dermatologists, is leading the research project, which will last until the end of this year.

What’s also significant is that SkinVision is the first and only skin health app that is CE certified. CE stands for Conformité Européenne, meaning that products with this mark are in accordance with legislation in the European Economic Area, comprising the European Union plus Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland.

Also very useful for medical professionals For medical professionals, SkinVision can also be very useful. Clinics using it can create their own profile with information such as services, schedule and available doctors.

Does the fact that the app has been scientifically proven and is bearing the CE mark also mean that more and more physicians are willing to use it when setting a diagnosis? Uyttewaal: “What we see is that dermatologists are open to understanding the usefulness of technology and there is consensus that apps will help to make people more aware of risks related to too much sun exposure. It is estimated that they only treat 5% percent of the skin cancer risk population. They understand that technology can properly help them get in touch with these people faster, more efficiently and earlier.”

On 20 August 2015, SkinVision announced it had secured an investment and business collaboration with LEO Pharma, a global healthcare company dedicated to helping people achieve healthy skin. “This agreement will enable us to expand into new areas and it validates our approach,” says Uyttewaal. “It also gives us the

SkinVision allows you take high-quality pictures of suspicious spots on your skin, analyse them by using a unique online assessment (algorithm) with a scientifically proven accuracy, store them into your personal gallery and share them with your dermatologist.

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this picture: SkinVision provides a risk rating for each mole in the form of a traffic light colour that helps you select the moles that should be tracked for changes over time. right: A picture of a birthmark after analysis, in this case one involving medium risk.

to the market that EIT Digital invests in through its eight Innovation Action Lines – be it innovation activities or startups.

EIT Digital’s mission is to foster digital technology innovation and entrepreneurial talent for economic growth and quality of life in Europe. It brings together entrepreneurs from a partnership of over 130 top European corporations, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), startups, universities and research institutes.

For a backgrounder on EIT Digital, see Holland Focus of May/June 2015.

opportunity to make the connection between consumer and physician, so that medical practitioners will also be able to make use of it more easily.”

SkinVision now also available in Android SkinVision at first was only available for iPhone 4s and higher. Since 27 July 2015, though, it can also be used on the Android devices Samsung S4 to S6. In the future, more models will follow on which it can be used. The app is free to download from the Appstore or Google Play, after which you get a trial month of unlimited analyses.

Next, you can decide to continue with a subscription for a month (€ 4.99), three months (€ 9.99) or a year (€ 24.99).

“Android has many models and even at Samsung, we see large differences in the cameras used”, Uyttewaal observes. “The quality of the camera is essential for a reliable analysis. With expanding the use of the app to Android, we meet the fast growth of the number of enthusiastic users in Europe and Australia.”

How melanoma altered Caroline Pownall’s life forever Caroline Pownall, who’s half Dutch and half English, has gone through a lot after she was diagnosed with skin cancer eight years ago. It all began with a mole underneath her right shin. “Over time, it had become more greyish-black and grown in size”, she recalls. “After a visit to the dermatologist, it turned out to be a melanoma which had worked its way inwards. So I was too late. I had waited too long to go to the doctor, out of fear.”

What followed was a lengthy and impactful therapy.

“After the birthmark had been removed, a biopsy was performed”, says Pownall. “Treated next was the sentinel node, where an infection of two centimetres was found. Subsequently, I underwent surgery to have 20 lymph vessels removed from my right-hand groin. From

Coached by EIT Digital SkinVision is one of the many startups coached by the Business Development Accelerator (BDA) programme of the leading European open innovation organisation EIT Digital, until recently known as EIT ICT Labs. EIT Digital is a Knowledge and Innovation Community of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). The BDA team is fully committed to bringing those innovations 61

here, specialists checked whether there were metastases in the liver, in which case chemotherapy would follow.

Fortunately, there were no metastases, but it did mean I would have to chronically wear therapeutic stockings to control the lymphedema, an abnormal accumulation of moisture and proteins in the tissue. The rehabilitation I then had to go through took six months.”

After having dealt with all this, she saw herself faced with a new reality: the necessity to lead an entirely new kind of life. “This meant I had to follow new rules of life”, she reminisces. “Day in, day out, I have to wear therapeutic stockings, which limit me in wearing clothes and choosing holiday destinations. In the summer, they really feel hot.

I also regularly have to undergo lymph drainage therapy.

I can’t sit or stand for a long time, which compromises my visits to parties, concerts, trips, et cetera. I have to exercise quite a bit in order to keep the blood in my legs circulated well. And finally, I must be alert all the time not to get exposed to more than just a little or dosed amount of sunlight.”

Despite the impairments her new life entails, Pownall is also grateful. “One of the things I’m grateful for is that the situation I ended up in has raised early awareness with my children when it comes to skin cancer. Four years ago, on two occasions a congenital suspicious mole was removed on my oldest daughter, who was eleven at the time, and just like me has a pale skin. That was truly a shock, as everything pointed in the direction of a melanoma. Fortunately, though, it proved to be a Spitz nevus, which has all the symptoms of melanoma, but is a benign form of it.”

Dick Uyttewaal, CEO of the company SkinVision that developed the app: “It is estimated that dermatologists only treat 5% percent of the skin cancer risk population.”

make sure I do not get burnt. I’ve also noticed that my skin has become ‘quieter’, exhibits less spots and is less red and irritated.”

The app also has given her substantially more control over her health. “When in doubt, I now immediately go and see a specialist.”

Caroline Pownall’s experiences with SkinVision How did Pownall hear about SkinVision? “About a year ago, a friend of mine, Steve Seuntjens, who’s employed at Skin Vision, told me about this app and the work he does.

Dick Uyttewaal then approached my husband, who he knew business-wise, about the SkinVision app and later also approached me. Subsequently, I started to study the app and use it.”

Wasn’t she initially hesitant to use the app, given the chance there was that she would get bad news again?

“No, on the contrary. Because I’d already had my bad news, I knew one can never be early enough with detecting skin cancer, so I was – and still am – very happy with it! It’s enormously convenient to be able to check your skin at all times and anywhere in the world. What I also welcome is the clear SkinVision website, which gives a lot of practical information.”

Regarding this particular point, Uyttewaal notes: “People sometimes are startled by seeing a red or orange rating and only then start reading what the app really does.

Many people download the app to use it once and then discover they have the characteristics for developing skin cancer. This is something we would rather not know, so this brings along a whole awareness process.”

Speaking of awareness, does Pownall now also feel she has more ‘skin awareness’? “Yes, absolutely! I rub myself in with sun cream with a high solar factor, sunbathe outside UV radiation peak hours and above all things

Caroline Pownall: “I must be alert all the time not to get exposed to more than just a little or dosed amount of sunlight.”

Further information www.skinvision.com www.eitdigital.eu

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Radio 4EB Het is altijd een spannende tijd voor de Nederlandse Radio Groep van 4EB FM98.1 zo aan het einde van het financiële jaar. Dit is de tijd voor het betalen van het lidmaatschapgeld. Halen we het benodigde aantal leden weer voor de vier uitzendingen per week of halen we het niet?

De uitzenduren hangen af van het aantal betaalde leden. U moet er toch niet aan denken dat er een uitzending vervalt!

De Nederlandse radiogroep heeft tot heden toe vier keer per week kunnen uitzenden. Dat is niet altijd zo geweest.

Wij waren één van de eerste taalgroepen die begonnen bij radio 4EB. Zo’n 35 jaar geleden was dat heel bescheiden met twee uitzendingen per week.

Er was behoefte aan nieuws en muziek van eigen bodem. De Nederlandse emigranten van toen waren de pioniers die het niet altijd even gemakkelijk gehad hebben. Zij hadden behoefde aan sociale contacten. Denk aan de koffieochtend elke tweede woensdag van de maand in Brisbane.

Wijlen Jan Holweg, de oprichter van ‘The Windmill Delicatessen Inc.’, in Brisbane, later beter bekend als ‘’t Winkeltje’, was een trotse sponsor. Zo ook Cor Veraart, de bekende groenteboer aan de Ipswich Road en later in Inala en Hans van der Drift. We kunnen nog altijd op hun steun rekenen!

Wijzelf bijvoorbeeld waren de “luxe” emigranten: wij kwamen ook per boot, de “Britanis,” een Griekse rederij. Ons gezin met drie kinderen genoten de luxe van een gezinshut. Wij kwamen in april 1972 aan en werden naar het opvangcentrum in Wacol, Brisbane gebracht. Hier waren nog twee jonge Nederlandse gezinnen die iets eerder aangekomen waren en al gauw raakten we bevriend.

Eén gezin vertrok en met het andere zijn we nog altijd bevriend.

En ja, zij zijn ook lid van de radio. Zelfs hun kinderen steunen de Nederlandse groep met hun lidmaatschap. Wij waren trots om lid te worden toen de radio in 1979 begon met uitzenden en we vonden het heel leuk dat ze onze “nieuwe” LP’s gebruikten. Helaas hebben we van verschillende leden van het eerste uur afscheid moeten nemen.

Toen kwam de computer en contact met het moederland is nu geen probleem meer. Bellen doen we bijna gratis of via Skype. BVN tv is in menig huishouden aanwezig. Zelf hebben we dat ook.

Maar lekker achterover zitten met een kopje koffie of een glaasje wijn, terwijl je naar radio 4EB FM 98.1 luistert DAT geeft je dat echte huiselijke gevoel. Bovendien wordt u op de hoogte gehouden wat er zoal rondom Brisbane te doen is!

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Bijvoorbeeld nieuws over de Familie Dag bij de Dutch Club NAQ op zondag 19 juli jl. Voor de kinderen waren er spelletjes en jong en oud genoot van het sjoelbakken. De Nederlandse Radiogroep van 4EB FM 98.1 was ook aanwezig. En wat was het weer fijn om oude bekenden te zien, maar ook om de jongere generatie te ontmoeten en hen over onze programma’s te vertellen. We zijn heel blij dat we op deze dag acht nieuwe leden mochten verwelkomen!

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750 years Oudewater welcomes King Willem-Alexander words and photos: Marianne Visser van Klaarwater

On 3 July, Oudewater celebrated its 750th anniversary attended by King Willem-Alexander. The monarch called Oudewater ‘the warmest town in the Netherlands’. These words did not just refer to the tropical temperature, but also the spontaneity and hospitality of the citizens of Oudewater.

Cardinal Wim Eijk, being a distant successor of Hendrik van Vianden, was one of the invited guests. Hendrik was the 38th bishop of Utrecht and in 1265 he granted town privileges to Oudewater. The 750th anniversary reflected the brave move of Oudewater, together with 11 other towns, to join the First Free States meeting on 19 July 1572 in Dordrecht.

In 1572, in the Augustine monastery in Dordrecht, twelve Dutch towns chose Willem van Oranje to be their political leader. This was the base of the State of the Netherlands.

Oudewater had to pay dearly for its resistance against the Spaniards in 1575 with ‘the Oudewater’s Murder’. This event is still remembered yearly.

Verkerk: since the 12th century in Oudewater The same applies to Joop Verkerk. His family has been living in Oudewater since the 12th century, as research

by Professor Joh. Schouten (1910-1981) shows. The dagger and skull (ca 1575) he found in his cellar and are on display in the Utrechtse Schatkamer reminds of the Oudewater’s Murder.

Joop: “Taking revenge on the brave resistance by the inhabitants of Oudewater, the Spaniards murdered them by stabbing a dagger in their bodies. About 800 to 900 people lost their lives this way. The Spaniards also burned down many houses.”

Brave Oudewater To reward their brave support to his distant great-uncle Willem van Oranje, King Willem-Alexander visited Oudewater on 4 July. The afternoon was concluded in hotel-restaurant Abrona, opposite the house of Joop Verkerk and his wife Gerda.

Joop: “Such a high visit will only happen every 40 or 50 years. And he even visited our street. What the royal house means for us? My wife and I have an unconditional 64

bond with the royal house. We always watch Blauw Bloed (TV programme about royals). We have to keep our royal house and take care of them. That is the only thing that keeps our country together.”

Crossover point Being the youngest mayor in the Netherlands, Pieter Verhoeve (33) calls the events from 1572 “a crossover point in our national and local history. The standing up for freedom is still real.”

He is honoured to welcome the king to his town. “His visit is unforgettable. This date will - for years - be an important day in the collective memory of its citizens.”

Oudewater: St Michaëls church The first part of this day takes place in the Grote or St Michaëls church. Miraculously the church was saved during the Oudewater Murders in 1575.

This day the mayors of the twelve towns that elected Willem van Oranje as their political leader in 1572 gather here.

As Professor Dr. H. Pleij mentioned in his speech, the 1572 resistance triggered the birth of the Netherlands.

With this Pleij underlines my own vision as mentioned in my book ‘Het geloof van Oranje’ (U2pi, September 2015).

1000 singing children After the gathering in the church King Willem-Alexander walks to the Markt, through the Noorderkerkstraat and the Wijdstraat. On both sites of the streets school children are standing behind an orange rope, signifying the rope industry of Oudewater. When cardinal Eijk appears they spontaneously start singing ‘Dag Sinterklaasje’. The link to Bishop Hendrik van Vianden eludes them.

The king cannot keep up with shaking people’s hands.

Spontaneous, cordial, warm and sympathetic is the king’s walk to the Visbrug. After arriving there singers of the theatre group Treatief sing a song for the king from the terrace and from behind the windows of the old town hall (1588).

Water monument Oudewater Later the king walks on through the Korte Havenstraat to the Markt to unveil a water monument. After that he boards the Geelbuik. This ship sails through the harbour (Havenstraat) and the Hollandse IJssel towards the Arminiusplein.

Tips: Grote or Michaëlskerk : http://www.oudewater.net/bekijken/ kerken-oudewater/st-michaelskerk/ Touwmuseum www.touwmuseum.nl Museum Heksenwaag: http://www.heksenwaag.nl/ Oudewater Tourism http://www.oudewater.net/bezoeken/ toeristisch-informatie-punt-oudewater/ Arrangementen Oudewater http://www.oudewater.net/ beleven/arrangementen-oudewater/ Historical bike routes through Oudewater http://www. oudewater.net/beleven/historische-fotoroute-door-oudewater/ town walks through Oudewater http://www.oudewater.net/ bekijken/stadswandeling-in-oudewater/ Sailing in Oudewater http://www.oudewater.net/doen/varen-inoudewater/ Abrona: http://hotelrestaurantabrona.nl/

Abrona Finally the king walks to hotel-restaurant Abrona to talk to some invitees and people involved with the visit.

Afterwards the hotelier confides in me that the king was honoured to visit Abrona. By employing people with an intellectual disability, Abrona strives to give them their own place in today’s society.

Subsequently Mayor Verhoeve looks back on a successful day. “It was a relaxed day. Festive and dignified. A day to look back on with gratification.”

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Jan en Kaspar Luiken: Het Menselyk Bedryf

De visser Dreigend weer, de zon staat al dicht aan de horizon in het westen. Op een laag duin staat een man in lieslaarzen en een muts van wel heel erg ruwe wol. Hij is armelijk gekleed. Zijn korte jekker is op de schouder versteld en op zijn elleboog zit een winkelhaak. Zijn wijde pofbroek puilt uit de halfhoge lieslaarzen. Hij draagt zijn schepnet en een uitpuilende mand waar we een flinke vissenstaart zien uitsteken.

Naast hem liggen drie flinke vissen op het zand. Links zien we de rug van een andere man, naast een grote mand. Vissers die met de vangst naar huis gaan.

Intussen wordt er verderop aan het strand nog steeds gevist. Minstens tien man trekken moeizaam een treknet het strand op. Dat kan best uitgezet zijn door de vissers vooraan die met hun kleine roeiboot bezig zijn. Vlakbij zien we de enige herkenbare vrouw van deze prent zeulen met een loodzware draagmand vol druipende vissen.

Maar ook de grote visserij is er. Enkele zeilschepen komen er net aan en verderop liggen er een paar die al op het strand getrokken zijn. Hun zeilen hangen aan de ra’s te drogen. En dat is nog niet alles, nog verderop, te zien boven de opgeheven vismand, steken nog veel meer masten uit zee. Het vissersdorp ligt tussen twee duinen, waar de wolken het donkerst zijn. En op het duin staat een hoge seinmast met een grote windwijzer. Het ziet er overtuigend uit. Maar heel realistisch is deze prent van de stadsmens Luyken niet. Niet alleen de golven zien er merkwaardig uit, ook de strandlijn met zijn vreemde bochten en de vreemde vorm van de duinen zijn behoorlijk romantisch. Dat neemt niet weg dat het een prachtige prent is, vol dynamiek en diepte. En meer dan genoeg detail om er lang naar te blijven kijken.

Wie er ook zwemt in ‘s werelds stromen Kan ’t Grote Visnet niet ontkomen.

Zoals een Visnet op het strand, Zo - zegt de Wijsheid - zal ‘t verkeren Wanneer de Grote Visserhand Zijn mensenvangst zal gaan sorteren: Het goede gaat in ‘t hemels Vat, De afval in een smerig Gat.

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The Fisherman Looming weather, the sun is close to the horizon in the west. On a low dune a man wearing waders and a beanie made of very coarse wool. He is shabbily dressed. His short jacket has been mended on the shoulder and the fabric on his elbow is ripped.

Very wide knickerbockers bulge from medium high waders. He carries his fishing net and a bulging basket with a sizeable fishtail sticking out of it. Next to him three ample fish lay in the sand. To the left the back of another man is visible, next to the large basket. Fishermen returning home with the catch.

In the meantime fishing is still going on further down on the beach. At least ten men labouredly pull a net on the beach. Which could have been laid out by the fishermen at the front, who are busy working on their small rowing boat. Close-by the only recognisable woman in this image is lugging a heavy carry-basket brimming with dripping fish. But also the deep-sea fishery is in the picture. Some sailing ships just arrive and further down a few have already been pulled on the beach. Their sails hang on poles of the ships to dry. And that is not everything as yet, even further down, visible above the highly lifted fish-basket, even more masts rise above the sea. The fishing village is situated between two dunes, where the darkest clouds are. And on the dune is a high signal-post with a large wind vane. It looks convincing. Still this image by the city slicker Luyken is not very realistic. Not just the waves look strange, the beach line too with its strange bends and the strange shape of the dunes are rather romantic. That does not mean that it is not a beautiful print, very dynamic and deep. And more than enough detail to look at it for a long time.

All you who swim in this World’s Wet Will not escape the Great Fish Net.

Wisdom declares it will be so: Like from a net upon the beach The Hand of the great Fisher will Sort out the people in his catch: In Heaven’s Barrel each good soul; While waste awaits the Hellish Hole.

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HOW TO PLAN YOUR NEXT STAY AT HOME HOLIDAYS AND KEEP EVERYONE HAPPY - INCLUDING YOURSELF?

parents and holiday program makers on which you find all creative, active and inspiring holiday programs in one place. Quick, easy, fun.”

Parents, do you recognise this: With everything back into routine after the holidays, in a few weeks you’ll have to start thinking about the next holiday period. And if it’s not going to be on a trip, then what do you do with the kids this holiday? Whether you are a working parent or a stay at home parent, planning and keeping everyone happy can be a challenge.

Australian parents are busier than ever and planning far ahead is for most families one of the least favourite things for them to do. And it doesn’t come easily: kids want to do a lot of things these days, you have to decide if you are taking days off from work and need to start planning to fill the holidays without getting the kids too bored - although: a little bit of boredom is good for kids.

And you have to find a half or a full day program, but where to get the inspiration when you need it.

Now there is a way to help solve the time and inspiration problem. Parents can go to www.holidayprogram.com. au, a website where you can search, find and book Melbourne’s most creative, active and inspiring holiday programs for children.

HOLIDAYPROGRAMS ONLY The platform is ONLY focussing on holiday programs for kids in the age of 4 - 17. You can find programs that cater for just a few hours to programs that offer half a day and full day programs and a variation of activities from art& craft, sport and language activities to even a robotics camp. This makes it very easy for parents to schedule. All listed holiday programs are handpicked and are certified to offer kids activities.

A search filter helps you to narrow your results by activity, duration, age and location. For example, if you’re looking to book a holiday program in a specific week or on a specific day, select “date”. Or if you’re looking for a special activity, like tennis select the activity of your choice and narrow it down by area and you can start planning activities straight away.

HOW IT WORKS Holidayprogram.com.au helps to establish the contact between parent and holiday program by sending the booking request directly to the holiday program. From there parents and the holiday program can interact and confirm bookings directly with each other before booking confirmation and payment. When a booking is made, payment will be made directly between booker and provider. There are no extra or hidden booking costs for parents nor for holiday programs. Holidayprogram. com.au visitors can profit from special discounts given by suppliers of the holiday program.

A LITTLE HELP IN THE MAZE OF ACTIVITIES Where does this idea come from? The answer to that question is given by Michelle Taylor, founder of www. holidayprogram.com.au. “As a mother of two I am always wrestling with the exact same problem as you: “What to do with the kids this holiday?” I would go on-line trying to find a nice activity that I could sign them up for. When I asked around, most of the parents would sign up for a day camp or a half day camp if they only knew how and where to find them.

So as an entrepreneur I decided to build a platform for

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KEEPING IT SIMPLE Of course there are plenty of websites that offer a list of kid’s activities and there are a couple of other websites that display holiday program activities amongst their activities, but I always got lost in a maze of activities, or found a closed system and a login is required to see any results, or bookings needed to be made through the system, or the website offers lots of different activities and finding the right thing is a challenge.

HolidayPrograms.com.au want to keep things very simple by showing all programs to parents in a simple search engine without booking costs or other extra costs. And for parents the use is absolutely FREE!

and in print and by talking to people. It was a challenge finding equivalents for the shops she used to buy from in the Netherlands. For example in the beginning she did not even know where to buy a nail and hammer to hang up a painting, but by asking around she found out Bunnings was the one to go to. She made lists of playgrounds and things to do for kids as well by using all information available in Melbourne and managed to get around pretty quickly.

With no family in the neighbourhood, she still finds it a challenge to fill the holidays with activities for her kids and sometimes drove many kilometres to bring her kids to a holiday program. People started asking what she was going to do and soon she started sharing lists of activities to other parents. That’s how she got the idea to build a search engine for other parents to find local holiday programs.

From her work as a marketing consultant she also has a passion to support the local entrepreneur.

Michelle lived in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 6 meters below sea level and has worked in sales and marketing in the direct marketing, software, insurance and automotive industry. In 2011 she decided to start working as a freelancer and work mostly virtually.

Michelle is married and has 2 daughters in the age of 7 and 9 years old. She loves her active family life, surfing, running along the coast of Port Phillip, tennis and Melbourne’s coffee culture.

ALL HOLIDAY PROGRAMS IN ONE PLACE Holiday programs can keep using their own booking system and pay a small fixed fee per term. The only thing they have to do is sign up. We advertise their program on the website with a potential reach of 4 million people, our blog, social media, newsletter and other press and local media. And if they have difficulty with writing content, we can help them with our team of copywriters and bloggers.

We plan to cover the whole Melbourne area and we think that there are plenty of holiday programs to list, so that will bring plenty of choice for parents. Only in the Bayside Area we already have a list of more than 250 holiday programs and if I have to make an approximation: think of 33.000 kids under 18yrs and 44.500 couples in the Port Phillip and Bayside area only, then there are lots of activities out there that nobody has listed properly!

At the moment we focus on the Bayside and Port Phillip Area because we started in these areas with our listed holiday programs, but we will cover more areas very soon. Feel free to subscribe to our newsletter and receive holiday programs suggestions in your mailbox just when you need them. We are hoping to cover the city of Melbourne soon and after that there are plans to build a platform for Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth.

ABOUT THE COMPANY Holiday Program.com.au started in April this year and so far we are listing holiday programs every day and our audience is growing steadily. At the moment I do all the work (marketing, sales, search and website development) from my home office in Brighton East. My ideal working situation is working during school hours from anywhere.

We are keeping costs low by working with freelancers only for design, IT, copywriting, marketing and sales.

Preferably flexible, virtual professionals, who don’t need to commit to 9-5 but can work from any place any time.

Indien u informatie kunt verstrekken over gezochte personen of als u een verdacht persoon ziet, neem dan zo spoedig mogelijk contact op met Crime Stoppers.

Voor het geven van inlichtingen over gezochte personen is een beloning beschikbaar gesteld.

U hoeft uw naam niet te noemen. U krijgt een codenummer toegewezen, dat gebruikt moet worden voor elk contact met de politie totdat de beloning betaald is.

Bel gratis naar Crime Stoppers op 1800 333 000 of ga naar www.crimestoppers.com.au

ABOUT THE OWNER Michelle Taylor moved to Australia 3 years ago and owns a digital marketing agency in Melbourne. When she came here she had to adopt to her environment and started making lists on everything by what she could find online

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Slotviering 200 jaar Koninkrijk Slotviering 200 jaar Koninkrijk: Muzikale vertelling van herkenbare thema’s. Nederland is jarig en viert 200 jaar Koninkrijk. Op zaterdag 26 september wordt de twee jaar durende viering afgesloten.

Muzikaal spektakel op Amstel tijdens slotviering Na een officiële bijeenkomst in Koninklijk Theater Carré, waarin onder meer wordt teruggeblikt op de viering, vindt er vanaf 20.30 uur een muzikaal slotspektakel plaats op de Amstel.

Meer dan 30 Nederlandse artiesten, waaronder Kovacs, André Hazes Jr., Ellen ten Damme, Rowwen Hèze, Ruth Jacott en Sjors van der Panne treden op. Bij de slotviering zijn Koning Willem-Alexander, Koningin Máxima en Prinses Beatrix aanwezig.

Thema slotviering is Eenheid in Verscheidenheid Ank Bijleveld-Schouten, voorzitter Nationaal Comité 200 jaar Koninkrijk: “In ons Koninkrijk komt een veelheid aan culturen, levensstijlen, dialecten, tradities, overtuigingen en meningen op weinig vierkante kilometers samen. We mogen er best trots op zijn. Daarom staan we hier tijdens de viering van 200 jaar Koninkrijk bij stil.”

Slotviering zeer divers muzikaal geheel Bij het slotspektakel wordt eenheid in verscheidenheid vertaald naar een zeer divers muzikaal geheel. Het programma kenmerkt zich door bekende muziek in een nieuw jasje, verrassende combinaties en bestaande hits, gekoppeld aan herkenbare thema’s.

Van 200 jaar fietsen, tot het leven met water, van vaderlandse kunst tot hoogtepunten in de sport.

Een scala aan Nederlandse artiesten brengt muziek aansluitend op deze thema’s, ondersteund door historische beelden op grote LED-schermen en acts op en rond het water.

De Magere Brug De Magere Brug maakt onderdeel uit van een uniek decor van de viering waar onder meer Kovacs, André

Hazes Jr., Ellen ten Damme, Rowwen Hèze, Sjors van der Panne, Ruth Jacott e.v.a. zullen optreden. De NOS verzorgt een live-registratie, vanaf 20.25 uur live op NPO1. Het avondprogramma wordt ook door leden van de Koninklijke Familie bijgewoond.

Slotviering biedt in Carré terugblik Voorafgaand aan het buitenprogramma vindt er in Koninklijk Theater Carré een officiële bijeenkomst plaats waarin wordt teruggeblikt op eerdere evenementen die zijn georganiseerd in het kader van 200 jaar Koninkrijk.

Dit is te volgen via een livestream op NOS.nl en NPO Nieuws van 17.45-18.45 uur.

Binnenprogramma Slotviering Het binnenprogramma, gepresenteerd door Art Rooijakkers, kent diverse optredens, zo brengt het Frysk Jeugd Orkest haar winnende versie van de compositie ‘Van Oranje’. Ook zal er muziek zijn van o.a. Jeroen van der Boom. Voorzitter Ank Bijleveld–Schouten van het Nationaal Comité 200 jaar Koninkrijk spreekt in Carré haar slotwoord uit, waarna de viering officieel wordt afgesloten met het slotspektakel op de Amstel. In Carré zijn o.a. vele vrijwilligers te gast die zich de afgelopen 2 jaar hebben ingezet voor de viering van 200 jaar Koninkrijk.

Publiek welkom tijdens Slotviering Het publiek is van harte welkom om vanaf de kades van de Amstel het slotspektakel te komen bekijken. Vanwege de verwachte drukte wordt echter aangeraden het evenement via TV te volgen.

200 jaar Koninkrijk In september 2015 is het precies 200 jaar geleden dat Willem I werd ingehuldigd als Koning van het Verenigd Koninkrijk der Nederlanden.

De viering in Amsterdam is het laatste nationale evenement in het kader van 200 jaar Koninkrijk der Nederlanden. Vanaf 30 november 2013 organiseerde het Nationaal Comité 200 jaar Koninkrijk evenementen in Scheveningen, Den Haag, Sint Maarten, Maastricht en Zwolle.

Naast deze landelijke evenementen waren er talrijke initiatieven op nationaal, regionaal en lokaal niveau om de 200 jaar viering nóg meer luister bij te zetten. Tijdens de viering staan we stil bij ons gezamenlijke verleden, heden en toekomst, en een aantal democratische verworvenheden. www.200jaarkoninkrijk. nl. tekst en foto Marianne Visser van Klaarwater

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