Wednesday 1 April 2009

Sun, sleep & Scheveningen

Here is TaTa with Shamir. Shamir is a clothes designer. They are in a cafe in Scheveningen on a beautiful sunny day. Shamir is very beautiful and she has loads of brothers and sisters - Monia, Amel, Mouez, Sadradine and Nedra. Mouez is getting married in July to Hennanen and the marriage will last three days and takes place in Tunisia. Monia has two children - one called Kharadine and the other I cannot remember and Amel has three children called Donnia and I don't know. A bit to complicated for us Siamese cats. The cafe is owned by a friend of Mohammed (the father of all these children) so everything was free - typical Tunisian hospitality.
This is RudeBoy sleeping - he is either sleeping or running around climbing mountains. He has three daughters - Sandra, Ellen and Marije and Marije has a son called Finn. This photo is taken in the house of Gert who was on vacation in Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. In 1939 the country changed its name from Siam to Thailand. In 1945 the country changed its name from Thailand back to Siam. In 1949 the country changed its name again from Siam to Thailand. It is the only country in the world to change its name three times in ten years. So as you can guess this is my country of origin.
Here are TaTa and KeKe with the beautiful Mila.
She slept for almost half-an-hour on KeKe's tummy because it is like a warm pillow and then she played with TaTa.
Carmen, her mama was sleeping as she has just come back from vacation and vacations always make you tired and grumpy - just like TaTa when she came back from Dutchland.
Carmen is married to Gerrie who works with EASA (the European equivalent of NASA).
Gert and Carla are the parents of Carmen.
Can you believe that the next photo is in Dutchland. Well it is.
The photo was taken in Scheveningen and it is now very in to have beach bars with sofas, pillows, gas fires and groovy music. When you walk further down the promenade you come to the surfers beach - wind-surfing, surf-boarding, kite-surfing. Lots of gorgeous dudes and dudettes. The beach goes on for miles.

Scheveningen is one of the eight districts of The Hague as well as well as one of its subdistricts. It is a modern seaside resorrt with a long sandy beach, an esplanade, a pier (where you can bungy jump) , and a lighthouse. A nudist beach is 1 mile to the north. The harbour is used both for fishing and tourism.

Then we have a very ominous sky as TaTa and KeKe crossed the border from Dutchland to Belgiumland and it started to rain and then became very windy. The Belgiumers like to drive in a very strange way - they don't keep to lanes they like to drive with the white line between their wheels and also overtake on the wrong sides and never indicate. They make the best beer in the world! For such a small country they brew over 400 beers and each beer has its own special glass. TaTa says Dutchland beer tastes like gnat's pee.