Klif 1, Texel

My in-laws are starting a Bed & Breakfast on Holland's biggest wadden island, Texel. It's a roughly four times the size of Manhattan and has beautifull dunes and woods.

The B&B is called klif 1 and is located in the town Den Hoorn.

They have a website which I designed and coded (thanx CSSplay). The content and layout was co-created with my in-laws and Lauris Beets.

You can find the site @ klif1.nl

Jean luce's coming home

We've just heared Jean luce is coming home after 3 months. Luckilly the most excitement he's had was almost falling from the roof and being taped to a chair by his mates.

In two day's time he will be back on Dutch soil. So will the Duch footbal team after losing to Portugal in a game with 16 yellow and 4 red cards! Not a record to be proud of

Nephew to Afghanistan

My nephew Jean Luce is part of the Deployment Task Force in the Dutch Army. He's was sent out to Uruzgan in Afghanistan today. They're part of a ISAF peacekeeping mission to help rebuild the region. The DTF will be building 3 basecamps for the 1200 Dutch troops that will be stationed there for 2 years. Dutch special forces will be assisting in clearing the roads of any explosives. He will stay there for 3 to 11 weeks. A serious situation and our thoughts and prayers are with him.

His sister maintains a Dutch blog about his mission.

After reading a blog from Colonel Henk Morsink, the commander of the DTF, who was sent out with the first batch of DTF personnel a month ago, I was astonished about Halliburton's subsidiary KBR, which was building a mall right next to the Dutch camp, complete with Burger King and Pizza Hut! He was describing how they were taking shelter from a rocket attack in a bunker right next to the Burger King! And in 6 day's time they had 4 Ramp ceremonies (photo). Needless to say, the contrasts are big.

Erperheide

Last week we were in a state of happiness, Centerpacs Erperheide in Peer (BE). It was a relaxing week, although some of us were not feeling so well. I learned to play Canasta and a few Leffe Bruin's. We had a coussy cottage with the usual fireplace.

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We allso went to Hasselt. I've been there before and knew there was a huge scale model store there. There I bought a scale model of my favorite car, the Nissan Skyline R34 GTR for just 12 euros.

30

This last Tuesday, march 7th, I had my birthday. I'm now a 30-er :)

Last Saturday we had a party at my in laws, because they have more space for all the guests and for the food we prepared.

New floor is in

This weekend we put the new laminated floor in. It's the Berry Floor Residence Elysee Oak. It looks gorgeous. The hard part was putting it under the stairs, but we did it.

Nice!

Replaced watermain!

I'm tired, have a back pain.... but we did it. The lead watermain is replaced by a Polyethylene (PE-40) tube. Replacing the lead tube wasn't easy because there wasn't a clear path from front to back. I had to open up the floor in three places. We used a spring line and the lead tube itself to pull the PE tube through. I'm glad my brother in law was there to help me, I couldn't have done it without him.

A high density version of PE (HDPE) is also used for the watermain here in the street. It's inert to most chemicals, acids etc.

Below is a picture of the tube we used. I'll post some pictures of the couplings in a few days.