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Austria

I. Facts about Austria Austria, the Alpine country in the southern part of Central Europe, offers an outstanding variation in landscape and scenery; rugged, snowcapped

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Germany

I. Facts about Germany Germany, being one of Europe’s largest countries, offers a great variety in landscapes. The beautiful mountainous range of the Bavarian Alps

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Brazil

I. Facts about Brazil Brazil is the largest country in South America. It is also the fifth-largest country by area and the sixth most populated

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Malaysia

I. Facts about Malaysia Malaysia is a very popular Southeast Asian travel destination, home to a modern cities, older historical sites, a cultural melting pot

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Spring beheld a promise,🌸 of new beginnings and

Spring beheld a promise,🌸
of new beginnings and hope.
She awakened and paced over land,
Noble and kind 🌺
wrapped in green robes
Her perfume of budding flowers
Carried by bashful sunrays. 🌞She came to mitigate our suffering,
It had been such a long, long time …🥰Far, far away, a moody sky 🌌
It was predicted, yet so inauspicious
Drizzling and determined ⛈
On the way to bump our Spring.Hope and vaccinations, Delta, Indian and British variants dance endlessly in an merciless rhythm. 💃🏻🕺🏻We planned to road trip around Europe like last year, when we had to cancel our international flights to Maui, Chicago and New York. 🛑However, different regulations per country certainly make traveling less appealing.Most European countries allow families to cross borders when both parents are vaccinated, unless the children are older than 12 years. 🌍Our eldest sons are 13 yrs and 12 yrs and they need to have a negative PCR test done before crossing a country. This test is valid for three days only, prices are different per country and we would have to search for test locations. 😩So many rules, regulations and different situations per country , it’s just not fun anymore. 😔Still, I know we will be somewhere out there in summer. We will manage. Its been way too long in one country and one place !! 🤞🤞🤞

Homeschooling in our place was about… Chaos and

Homeschooling in our place was about…
Chaos and order,
Despair and hope,
patience and frustration.
Resilience and break downs
And always, always about being together.Homeschooling started with a labyrinth of digital educational systems locked by a million passwords. I excelled in getting lost and being stressed about my inability to understand it.It was about waking up at 8.15 am.
One meet started at 8.30 in pyjama pants with a decent shirt, more meets for four kids later on.Homeschooling was about me running from
one child to another, while cooking, while teaching, while cleaning, while feeding, while quizzing, while washing laundry.Homeschooling was about our eldest at highschool, so many sources for digital learning and still learning what to prioritize.It was about our second son who never asked for advice and mostly did it all right.It was about my daughter, working hard but so sad, when her siblings finished tasks before she did.It was about our third son,loudly informing us about every sum he finished.
Protesting even louder at the end of the day when he had forgotten half of his assignments.It was about our fourth son, our toddler who jumped and ran around,
with an attention span of 5 minutes and a lot to teach.It was about our sweet, little girl who insisted on her eldest brother playing with her,
Who scratched on paper along with her siblings, and sat on her brothers neck in front of the computer.It was about dad coming home exhausted from the ICU, with stories about the disastrous pandemic.And then, around 10 pm… it was about me.
A peaceful dinner with a glass of red wine, completely entangled with the ‘Vikings’ series. I snacked their losses and grieve away until I finally hit my pillow around 2 am.
No wonder I gained 10 kilos the past year.Homeschooling was about chaos, stress and bustle. And we were always together.How heavy was my heart, how empty my soul when I drove them back to school,
The moment they walked away,
my youngest son searching his new ways…A little hand, twinkling eyes, the sweetest voice; ‘mummy?’
I kneel down and hug my little girl, I know she feels the same.

We went to Bali 🏝three times; once with 3 kids,

We went to Bali 🏝three times; once with 3 kids, 2 years later with 4 kids and the last time in 2019 with 6 kids. ✈️
Can you imagine I almost wanted to cancel the last time since we didn’t manage to get a proper photo of our 5 days old Ishita 👶 that met the requirements as stated for passports…The last time was the most challenging 😰start to a holiday; just one month after my diagnosis pulmonary lung embolism 🫁 and with our youngest being one month 👶, a toddler that loved running away and 4 elder kids 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦.I will never forget the stress 😫 before our journey began. My pulmonologist 👩‍⚕️ refused to give me a fit-to-fly declaration. We consulted a vascular internist 👨‍⚕️and he said I was better protected against any form of thrombosis due to my medication. After thorough research we decided not to cancel our holiday. We boarded our flight and I carried a cool bag with 50 doses blood thinners to keep my medication🩸 within the allowed temperature range.Guess what? We had the best time in Bali! There was much more family time than we would have been able to have at home and I was able to cuddle 🥰 my new born baby all day!Until the earthquakes earthquakes 🌎 hit Lombok and Bali started shaking as well.. I’ll save that story for another time!Have a look at our YouTube channel: mytravelfamily to watch the movie of our first trip to Bali with 3 kids! 🎥What was the most challenging journey 😰you have had?
Tell me, I will share the most remarkable experiences in my stories!

The first time we undertook a long-haul flight ✈

The first time we undertook a long-haul flight ✈️ with multiple young children was to Bali. Back then we were blessed with three kids, Eashan 4 yrs old, Shail 2 yrs old and our baby Tanisha 9 months. 👩‍👧‍👦
We flew from Amsterdam to Singapore (12,5 hrs) and transferred to a connecting flight to Bali (2,5 hrs). The journey had been tough with an active toddler, another toddler completely uncomfortable in an airplane and a crying baby.😭
Upon arrival at our hotel in Bali, my husband and me were exhausted, 😅while our sons couldn’t stop running around!Bali 🏝was surprisingly untouched and pure in many places, even though tourism has taken a giant leap the past decades. The island is drenched in culture and religion in a peaceful manner.🍀‘ A symphony of rustling leaves, croaking frogs and singing birds blows softly throughout flooded rice fields. Endless tints of green are splashed in humid breeze upon Bali’s blessed nature.🌾
Even when not born here, Bali somehow can make you easily feel rooted in its soil.’What seemed to be tough back then at the start of this journey, has become so easy now. I wouldn’t bother about flying with three small kids for a second nowadays! ✈️
Did you feel challenged before by what nowadays seems so easy?
More importantly, all the effort was worth our holiday! We explored so many beautiful places in Bali. More in my next post! ⏭

That time when the sun paints beautiful colors i

That time
when the sun paints
beautiful colors
in long abundant strokes
on the blended canvas
of sea and heaven.And we just stand there,
at the edge of the sea.
The ever blowing wind
moves the color palette of heaven,
while salty sand seeps into the water.We just stand here
shells humming their songs
and the day
slowly surrenders to the night

Inch by inch we conquered our place for lunch. 🍴🍔
We ignored our shame since the area was clearly marked as ‘do not enter’, the chains ⛓wrapped around the furniture spoke volumes.
We wrestled ourselves into the chain tangle ⛓ to obtain a chair 🪑and smiled friendly to every passerby, pretending we hadn’t noticed the signs. 🙈🤷🏻‍♀️I kept telling myself I was granted permission by the owner of the snackbar next door, who told me this restaurant had been closed for ages. 🛑Ah there he was, two trays full of the most delicious fries, hamburgers and milkshakes. 🍟 We enjoyed a lovely lunch at Goes’ harbor site.
It would have been perfect if the dog 🐶 owner of the dog who conquered this place just before us, would have cleaned up. 💩A getaway in own country 🧳during strict lockdown and curfew; but lunch outside. I insisted. Otherwise I might as well stay at home. I tried to remember the ever- changing orders of my kids, ordered alone while they stood outside, watched them with one eye, asked my eldest kids to help and hurried back.Beautiful premises surround the centrally located, picturesque harbor of Goes. 💦
Goes is a great city in Zeeland for shopping 🛍 so I heard, whenever there is no lockdown.
It used to be a trading city for beer, wood and gras. There is a big market square with a beautiful church. ⛪️ In summary, Goes is just lovely to stroll around. Even more after the lockdown I guess.Also, I changed our IG handle ; this is to make the name similar to our blog soon to be launched!

Wishing you a wonderful Easter 🐣 weekend!!!Wh

Wishing you a wonderful Easter 🐣 weekend!!!When I showed this photo to my youngest kids, they actually believe the bunny had been standing next to them!
Never let go of your imagination and dreams 🧚🦄❤️.

The Gothic town hall in Middelburg dates from the

The Gothic town hall in Middelburg dates from the 15th century and is one of the prettiest gothic buildings in the Netherlands. 🌆I planned to make a photo on the big square in front of the town hall, which would be pretty easy to do with my kids. However, I totally forgot about the big market each Thursday on this square!
In order to capture the architectural grandeur I would somehow have to avoid the busy market place.
While I juggled with my camera 📸 and tripod for a decent photo, market on the left and pedestrians 🚶‍♀️and bikes 🚲 everywhere, my two little kids suddenly felt a desire to walk off and my boys started teasing each other.Which is totally understandable, although I refused to understand anything at that moment. 😫‘Watch Ishita, watch Rushil, stop teasing each other!’ The ‘mommy-he-said- this-and-he-did-that’ continued..Later on, I opened the photo on my computer and I liked it. Here we are, all perfectly aligned, standing straight up as on military command 🪖and complementary to the majestic town hall. An obvious lack of joy which defined that moment. Kids can’t fake fun and it’s actually a precious characteristic they have!A few moments later we were all truly happy eating very fresh fried fish 🐠 from the markets! Ishita accomplished to get a terrible squealing dog’s 🐶toy here, which we had to listen to for the next days.Middelburg is the charming capital city of Zeeburg, which doesn’t feel like a city at all. With over 1200 restored monuments, narrow, winding streets and historical canal houses, it is a lovely city to stroll around. 🌆

Five kids going to school means; three kids at sch

Five kids going to school means; three kids at school. Or less 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👧👧At least one child will be quarantined, our eldest attends high school only once a week and we have a toddler. I always have kids at home. Thank goodness. I couldn’t bear being without all of them at once, after months of homeschooling.Classes with 20 to 30 kids coming from 20-30 families. The exposure to corona 🦠is inevitable, despite precautions.😷 Poor teachers 👨‍🏫, poor kids. Poor parents.
With one infected person in class, the whole class is quarantined😷 for 10 days (or 5 days with a negative test result at 5th day after exposure). So good they started again! 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️How has the past year been in the Netherlands?
The WHO informed the world January 2020 about the new virus. Our National Institute for Public Heath Health assumed several weeks later, the virus was probably not highly contagious.
On February 27th last year, the first COVID-19 case 🦠was confirmed. Our government didn’t encourage wearing masks at start and declared population immunity as an effective way to prevent spreading. 🤭🤦‍♀️
By the end of March the total number of COVID-19 infections exceeded 10.000 😱, there was a lack of testing capacity, safety measures in hospitals and caring homes were inadequate, hospitals 🏥 were running out of ICU capacity. This was a very hard time for my husband working at ICU and all his colleagues.The complete lockdown started March 15th 2020 until June. Primary schools reopened June 3rd. In July there was a steady increase in infected cases again. 📈
On December 14th a second complete lockdown was announced and still in effect. Masks became compulsory to wear indoors. The primary schools opened recently, February 8th.
On January 23rd the government imposed a curfew to contain the very contagious British variant and the worst riots in 40 years broke out across the country.People get fed up. People act fed up. People break rules. Still, we live in a pandemic. Our world will not be healed through our disbelief, nor through riots or “fighting for freedom.” We all have the responsibility to contain this virus and to beware of our and each other’s health!

I took the kids and went away. 🏃‍♀️This w

I took the kids and went away. 🏃‍♀️This was two weeks ago. I was fed up of our neighbourhood. 🌆 It’s a fine neighborhood, nothing wrong here, we just KNOW it already. We have come to learn every corner, every playground🤾‍♂️, every house, plant and tree these past months. After homeschooling, we would go outside every day, left or right and return. We truly needed a change.I never booked an accommodation without my husband since we got married, so why not start with me and all my kids at once ?😅😂
My husband had to work, there was a school holiday and I needed confirmation the world 🌍 was bigger than our neighborhood. I think I even needed confirmation the world is not flat. 🤔🤔I booked an apartment in Zeeland in a rural 🚜🌾setting, packed sheets, towels, 🚿🛀clothes, detergent, sponges, 🧽our breakfast, Nutella, sausages 🌭, isn’t it better to stay at home 😰😩??!!, our dinner meals 🥘 and pizzas 🍕, toothpaste and shower gel. After all, we would have a getaway during a strict lockdown and curfew starting at 9 pm.The car 🚘 was fully stuffed, we waved dad 🙋‍♂️goodbye and off we went. Ishita tried to grab the clutch only three times and then luckily fell asleep.😴 Our youngest became carsick 🤒 when we were almost there and everyone was a bit fed up after two hours’ drive.Zeeland, the land in the sea, turned out to be such a delight. Endless coastlines with golden dunes, sandy beaches, ocean views without a horizon and great sunsets! 🏝🌊🌞🌅

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