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How low can you go? Just 15 cm and Johan tripped down from our sunroom doorstep on to the terras spraining his right foot. Fortunately the foot was not broken, but he has to avoid walking so the best place is having fun behind the workstation and spend some time updating the summer edition of Istolbul. We are looking forward to our one week vacation in August. It happens to be planned at Oxford (UK) one of the wettest places on earth. We shall see.
In the mean while all the best from Lia and Johan.

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Although the weather in Holland is not that great these weeks, we are having fun hunting for houses. It is very difficult to make a choice. Every plus point is confronted with a minus point for each home we visited during the past weeks. We are looking for something special and we even looked at an old Dutch windmill to live in. Needless to say that the grandchildren would love to see us move there because the premises accomodates goats, pigs and chickens. As we said before in this log: we keep you posted..
As you can see on the images we spent some time with family and vice versa. Johan had a wonderfull evening out with his "old" Vendex KBB colleagues (bottom images).
Hope the sun will return soon in our frog lands..
Kisses from Lia and Johan

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07 07 07 turned out to be a very special day for (our) Gyas Ladies, who stayed another weekend here in Abbenes. Despite the fact that Nereus was favourite they won the race saterday in a splendid time and became National Champions (first year Ladies ). Congratulations from all of us again. Jan Willem must be a very proud coach. We had 14 guests in our home last weekend! In the meanwhile we picked up Merle and Mike (in the middle of the night) from Schiphol and due to the weather our gandchildren wanted to play in the pool. Now you can imagine that Pasha put his head under the pillow and is begging for some quiteness around the house!!.
We keep you informed and have a nice summertime.
Lia and Johan

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If you look at the weather maps nowadays you notice that Istanbul is the place to be right now and The Netherlands is - despite global warming - a cold place like the North Pole. Just in summer time we miss our Turkish climate so much. And of course even more our dear friends over there! We hope you do not melt down over there.. hahaha.
Not much news from Abbenes this time. Still home hunting. Although we saw nice examples we did not decide yet. The images above show you how Holland can be at summer time.
Keep up the good work and talk to you soon.
Love from Lia and Johan.

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