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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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Get Out of the Netherlands as Soon as Possible. Th

Get Out of the Netherlands as Soon as Possible. This was what we kept in mind. 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🚙The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant flourished as never before and infected cases rose exponentially. In one week, cases multiplied 50 times!! 😱
It was only a matter of time before the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control would color the Netherlands red. This would result in countless cancelled holidays since most people get 2 to 3 weeks off of work and being quarantined during a holiday is simply no option.We had been looking at possible trips around Europe for weeks and were confused. The rules were different per country and changed continuously! The timespan in which antigen tests were considered valid, the minumum age for which a test was required, the costs of tests, whether we would have to be quarantined upon arrival. 😩We decided to go to only one country: Italy and keep things simple🇮🇹 .That Friday at 3.00 am, Rakesh passed his European exam to fly the DJI air 2S after a few hours of studying. 📚
At 3.00 am I was packing, cleaning and busy with our next IGTV. 😅
One of my ideas for a new blog post is ‘ how to plan travels with kids’. You can trust us , since we are experts in knowing How Not to Prepare! 🙄😂Our kids attended their last school day. 🏫
Thé antigen test for us except our two youngest, was scheduled at 3 pm. 🧪 We received the test results by email at 4.30 pm and decided to leave home at 7 pm.I still needed to pack for my girls and myself.
We needed to have dinner.
Our second son suddenly lost his phone. 😫 My husband was just about to block his phone, when our third son saw it on the table, covered with a dish towel,We left at 10 pm, hours later than planned. ⏰
We did not have an itinerary or accommodation yet. We only knew we were heading to Italy. 🇮🇹This photo was taken in Switzerland 🇨🇭 at 5.30 am, when Rakesh pulled over to take a break. A beautiful sunrise welcomed us to Switzerland.5 days later, July 15th, the Netherlands colored red on the European Corona cases map. The news popped up on our phones when we were driving through an apple orchard on our way to Venice. 🛶⚓️
We had been so lucky !! 🍀

Our Forests. The past year we have been to many fo

Our Forests. The past year we have been to many forests in the Netherlands. It was great to experience freedom outdoors, while the whole world seemed to be locked up, locked in and locked down. 🦠 Being outside somehow always made us forget about the restrictions and rules due to the pandemic. 😷Our kids were born and raised in the Netherlands and , this probably sounds a bit weird, just recently started to explore their homeland. 🌲🌲Before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, we often flew to tropical destinations and spent our weekends at playgrounds 🤾‍♂️⛹️‍♀️ and in restaurants.We created a video compilation of the forests we have visited. Our kids love to create videos and they were so happy to share our forest compilation with @_kidculture_! 📹🌲
Have you ever heard of this social media channel for kids? It’s a unique and safe platform for kids only to share their videos and watch videos created by other kids all around the world! 🤾‍♂️⛹️‍♀️ videos are easy to create and upload , @_kidculture_ takes care of the editing themselves.
No ads, no likes, no followers and simply a great way to connect with other kids and learn about different cultures and countries. 🌎We hope you enjoy the video!If you want to have an idea of the videos @_kidculture_ compiles, head over to their account ! You will find ours through: https://vimeo.com/574545168#AD #forestcaptures #forest_capture #walkinthewoods #whywelovenature #natureshooters #forest_captures #travelholland #visitnetherlands #thisisholland#walksinthewoods #familyoutings #outsidefun #lovetheoutdoors #daytripping
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My Travel Family Blog. Traveling to us means explo

My Travel Family Blog. Traveling to us means exploring our great wider world, learning about new cultures and a deeper understanding of who we are.🌍We have always been passionate about traveling. We travelled a lot before we had kids and we continued with our kids. We took our babies from one month on along on long haul flights ✈️ and on road trips.🚙It can be difficult to organize, pack and travel with lots of small children, but our trips together have always been worth it! 🧳Head over to our Travel Family Community right now (link in bio) if you 📝
- are searching for great travel inspiration of places all around the world. 🗒
- are in need of photography tips to capture all your precious moments in a great way.📸We have many tips, insights and inspiration to share!
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Do you remember your teenage years when you though

Do you remember your teenage years when you thought life was hard and busy, while you didn’t have significant responsibilities? 😥😥
Do you ever think back?I miss the period I believed it was hard to raise babies and toddlers.🍼 It’s the teenagers phase that is the real deal! Our teens are the sweetest, truly, but they can be moody!! 😒What was the most annoying thing you remember of your parents? I remember vividly how they were nagging me to have dinner, while I wanted to stay in my room and how they always worried too much. 😡Me, a morning in autumn: ‘Get dressed, guys! We are leaving in one hour!’ ⏰
They, in despair: ‘Whaaat?? Noo! Why?!’
Me (annoyed they did not appreciate my efforts, while getting my little ones dressed): ‘Why aren’t you just grateful?! I’m trying to do my best here!’ 😓
Meanwhile my little ones ran off and wiggle their bare buttocks in front of the window.
They (aggrieved): ‘You always decide we have to go out in our weekend ! Our opinion doesn’t count. We don’t want to!’ 😫This was a serious accusation posited. 😳😳
Me: ‘You want to stay at home and play games?’
They: ‘Yes , but you never let us!’
Me: ‘We are going. Get dressed. You both complain now, but once we get there you will be happy!’
They: ‘You are so bossy and nagging!’ 👩‍🏫
There it was, I was suddenly promoted to the nagging , bossy mum. The prototype nagging mum. When did it start??I, the free spirit , who promised myself never to settle down and become boring and suburban. I, who loved to have every option and possibility open and was praised for being flexible. I had heard them whispering in their pajama’s in front of the television: ‘There comes mum. She is going to spoil again.’ (meaning I would tell them to get dressed.)This time they remained unhappy in the forest. They also refused to be in photos.
At night, I talked with my two eldest boys. I explained why I want them to go out and get dressed. I tried to understand their feelings as well. They were or at least acted kind. Maybe they did understand. Maybe they just wanted to get rid of me nagging. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

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.

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 🧚🦄❤️.

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