The 10 days of gorgeous Spring weather has turned cold and wet. Wednesday I met fellow cruisers Matthias and Regina in the Sixhaven in Amsterdam. I knew them from my stay at “de Schinkel” in 2009. Today I drive their car to Friesland while they are moving their boat to a summer moorage in Koudum, Friesland.
Today I spent time in the archives in Utrecht and found another piece to the puzzle in gettig a better picture on some of the players in the book I am writing. From Utrecht I took the train to Culemborg to meet Karel van den Berg and his wife Ankie and Bert van den Berg. My great great grandparents are directly related to these v/d Bergs. My mother used to spend many hours with Karel father’s family in Amsterdam. Karel lives on an old farm, the house dates from 1877. While we walked up tot the Stork’s perch in the meadow on his property we just happened to see the below mating scene. The Utrecht pictures are of the Dom Church. The tallest church in the Netherlands. Construction commenced in 1254. Untill the 16th century reformation it was the main Roman Catholic Cathedral for the Netherlands and the diocese of Utrecht.
