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Tailing the Griendworker

Barry Voeten — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:43:16 +0000

This weekend we did an historic excursion to the Biesbosch national park leading us back to the forgotten lifestyle of the griendworker: the men who harvested and collected the willow branches. The men, mostly catholic from surrounding villages like Drimmelen and Made left their families during the weekdays to sleep in circumstances rarely seen [...]

Cutting smaller willow branches

Barry Voeten — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:48:32 +0000

The works of a Griendworker, the old crafts of the Biesbosch, The Netherlands. In order to reach larger branches, first remove the small ones. Bind them together with one of the self-made willow tie wraps.

Mushroom hunt at Meijendel

Barry Voeten — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:57:13 +0000

In response to the Dutch Governments policy to ban the psychic mushroom (Paddo), we went to visit the natural parc of Meijendel, north of The Hague. And guess what we found…

Taking a dive…

Barry Voeten — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:44:57 +0000

Suzanne’s colleague Marjan had it organized: going out to dive in the Grevelingen. Sunday 9:00 sharp we entered Sublub in Rotterdam Kralingen. Trying on all the equipment, see the Padi.com video (typical commercial-American style) and another talk from the boss Willem. He knows how to run the show. Real-life wasn’t so easy. The dicing itself [...]

Family & Friends playing Minigolf

Barry Voeten — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:48:49 +0000

Theo and Jenny celebrated their sixties in a wonderful way. About 30 friends came over to Liempde for a game of minigolf and a couple of drinks. The food was great too. Too bad I blew up my bike type, but for the rest it was great. Nice to see al my nieces again and [...]