Aad and Jolanda run their B&B near the Meuse, in Well. It is a colorful collection of backpacker cabins and luxurious rooms. In addition to the garden house, there is also a gypsy cart and there are two luxurious bedrooms in the house. Aad and Jolanda have a total of five daughters, two of them together. When the first leaves …
Read More »Nageeye only Dutch participant in the world championship marathon | Other Sports
This summer, Abdi Nageeye will be the only Dutch participant in the world championship marathon in Oregon in the United States. This is reported by the Dutch Athletics Union. Nageeye won silver at the Tokyo Olympics last year behind Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge. The marathon takes place on Sunday July 17 on a 14 kilometer course. The World Athletics Championships in …
Read More »Extraordinarily early heat wave in Spain: “Summer eats spring” | Abroad
Parts of Spain are experiencing an extraordinarily early heat wave. The thermometer in the town of Andujar in Andalusia showed 41 degrees this afternoon. There were also record temperatures for May in other southern cities. Seville and Cordoba recorded 39 degrees. On the holiday island of Mallorca, 35 degrees were reached. In large parts of southern and central Spain, temperatures …
Read More »Snapshot: The Modern Gold Rush in North Dakota
Former correspondent Emile Kossen traveled more than 11,000 kilometers by train across the United States. And ended up in booming Williston. This story is from his new book Station America which came out this week. “It’s new, it’s new. That road didn’t even exist yet. Howard Klug, a burly man with blue eyes and a gray-green shirt, actively points around. …
Read More »Secret service agents from South Korea were sent home after the drunken incident
Several reports suggest that two secret service personnel were deported from South Korea to the United States this week after a fight with a drunken local driver before President Biden’s trip to the country. ABC News A guard and armed bodyguard assigned to travel to Seoul to prepare for Biden’s arrival recently visited a restaurant and raided several liquor stores …
Read More »Spacewalks are (still) a thing of the past
NASA has always been hesitant to do spacewalks, but it’s even stopping now. An astronaut on the International Space Station wore a helmet in which a layer of water formed. Although this incident dates back some time, NASA has chosen to temporarily suspend spacewalks. The leak happened to Matthias Maurer, who hiked on March 23 with fellow astronaut Raja Chari. …
Read More »Things went wrong in the middle of the ocean: ‘Shaken back and forth for three weeks’
Sander (35) from Heerenveen set off on a world tour earlier this year with his girlfriend Yvette (35). Aruba was the starting point for the tour. “I pursued this dream from a very young age. Yvette has a passion for travel and came with me, even though she is not into ocean sailing.” The couple reached the Galápagos Islands unscathed …
Read More »“I pay 85 euro cents for a liter of petrol”
In the land of the rising sun, he speaks Dutch every day. “Quenten Martinus (former SC Heerenveen, Sparta and FC Emmen, editor’s note) is my teammate. I spend the most time with him. Apart from that, I speak English with my interpreter. The club employs two full-time interpreters who can help the four foreign players help the club everywhere,” says …
Read More »Curved Pendrive Photos in Downtown Los Angeles
In the United States, many things are bigger and more noticeable than they are here. This does not only apply to soft drinks, cars and plastic copies Daily things – Problems such as social inequality seem more and more distorted than in the Netherlands. This is painful to see in the fast-growing downtown of Los Angeles, where wealthy tech entrepreneurs …
Read More »Imprisonment of Hotel Rwanda boss deemed “illegal” by Washington
© BELGA The United States finds that Paul Rusesabagina, the Rwandan Belgian known for the film “Hotel Rwanda”, is “illegally” detained by the Rwandan justice system. A U.S. State Department spokesperson said so on Thursday. Source† Belgium Today at 04:13 Paul Rusesabagina, known as an opponent of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, is serving a 25-year prison sentence for “terrorism”. He …
Read More »Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is finally on its way to the ISS | NOW
Boeing successfully launched the Starliner spacecraft on Thursday evening. At 6:54 p.m. (local time), the Starliner took off from the Cape Canaveral launch site in the US state of Florida. This is an unmanned test flight to the International Space Station. Two previous attempts failed. If all goes as planned, the spacecraft will dock with the ISS overnight from Friday …
Read More »Drunk Dutch (57) wants to park his car on the Düsseldorf track | Car
A 57-year-old Dutch woman caused a riot at Düsseldorf airport when she wanted to park on a runway yesterday morning so she could catch her flight to Spain. she took’park and fly‘ literally, jokes the German police. She reported to the guard at one of the entrance gates and told him to walk across the tarmac to the plane. She …
Read More »Strange course of events around the Qatar Airways flight
A Qatar Airways flight from Auckland to Doha has been delayed for three days. The travelers had no idea what was going on. Last Sunday, the plane was to depart from New Zealand via Adelaide (Australia) to Qatar. When the travelers arrived at the gate, their flight was suddenly cancelled. They then had to go through security to return to …
Read More »The Queen and Prince Charles are “terrified” by the Netflix series, like Harry and Megan Kardashian
The Queen and Prince Charles will be shocked as Meghan Markle and Prince Harry “seem determined to destroy the monarchy”, according to an expert. A royal expert spoke to Her Majesty and Prince Charles felt uneasy. The news comes amid reports that Harry and Meghan are producing a Kardashian-style reality documentary series for Netflix. Angela Levine said Sun The newspaper …
Read More »Haunted Boeing Starliner makes another attempt to reach the ISS tonight | NOW
The Boeing Starliner capsule is trying again to reach the International Space Station (ISS) overnight from Friday to Saturday. If successful, it would be a major achievement for Boeing, which has been plagued with problems so far. Starliner, if all goes well, will perform an unmanned flight and dock with the ISS. This is Boeing’s second attempt. In December 2019, …
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