Friday, March 27, 2009



My new favourite sport is snowboarding!!! It's unfortunate however, that I've only discovered this right at the end of winter :(

For the last couple of weekends I've gone with some friends from work (Jurgen and Jereon - Limburgers rock!) to some indoor ski slopes. I had a fantastic time and I'm keen to keep going! Fortunately the guys were good teachers and there wasn't too much carnage to begin with... only when I started to get a bit too confident did I really hurt myself (wrist and 'tailbone' for those who are interested!)

Last weekend I caught up with an old friend from Tassie, Andrew, who now lives with his wife Cali in Amsterdam. I had a great time catching up - sharing way too much information, watching Wales lose the rugby (that actually was't that fun!) going to their church and eating apple cake and cream (it was "Lekker" = delicious)

Tomorrow I'm off to Ireland to see the sights of Galway and catch up with Bridge. I'm not expecting great weather, but I am looking forward to a fun weekend and 'real Irish guiness' I've heard a lot about it!

And then in 1 week I'll back in Australia! Can't wait to see my mum (Mevrouw van Driel as people from work call her!) Dave, Lisa, Emma, Evan, and my new niece Chloe (!!!), my sister Julia and her pregnant tummy! Will, Tania and Caleb! And for some reason tonight, I started to look forward to eating off the random African/Dutch crockery which my mum owns.

5 comments:

Bridget said...

It's a good thing you weren't in Galway last weekend, I don't think you would have been served a Guinness if they found out you were going for Wales!

Anonymous said...

Correction: It's Mevrouw van Driel. We don't want to insult mum, do we? :) Have a nice weekend. Tot maandag.

Jono said...

:) Jafari!

my mistake - goed gezien! erg goed jongen!

tot maandag

Jeroen said...

hi jono,

Nice blog you have here.
Looking forward to the next boarding session.
i've got just one comment.
You did spell my Name wrong.
i'm totally devistated.
cant sleep any more at night :)


please change it
GRTZ Mate

the REAL Jeroen said...

Sorry but the comment above was written by our weird Belgian friend (Jurgen that is).
Anyway nice blog, a nice way to let you family and friends know what you're up to in the land of clogs.
Jurgen is right about one thing. You spell my name with oe and not eo. Probably a typo :)