Posts in the Category: Travel
By Gertjan Holleman
Posted in - Culture & Personal & Travel on February 8th, 2017
Back on Ibiza our friends asked us:
“How was it to be in the United States, as a married gay couple, during Trumps inauguration?”
Well, it was a big contrast, because on the 20th of January we were …
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By Gertjan Holleman
Posted in - Personal & Travel on January 28th, 2017
At the wedding of Corey and Andreas in Amsterdam we met May, Lea, Megan and Vanessa. They all went to the organised “Buddymoon” on Ibiza and Vanessa, who decided last moment she was joining, even …
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By Gertjan Holleman
Posted in - Personal & Travel on January 24th, 2017
At Chicago airport we had a complimentary breakfast in the United Polaris Lounge, because Corey is a premium frequent flyer. A lovely breakfast of oatmeal, fruit, scrambled eggs with bacon and … of course Bloody …
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By Gertjan Holleman
Posted in - Personal & Travel on January 17th, 2017
Chicago, Chicago that toddling town
Chicago, Chicago I’ll show you around
I love it bet your bottom dollar you’ll lose the blues in Chicago, Chicago
The town that Billy’s Sunday couldn’t shut down
(Frank Sinatra)
Right now we are already …
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By Gertjan Holleman
Posted in - Personal & Practical & Travel on October 20th, 2016
Last week Johans sister-in-law Irene and her son Thijmen visited us. A few weeks before Irene sent me a WhatsApp, if I knew something nice to do for her nine year old kid. But October is …
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By Gertjan Holleman
Posted in - Food & Personal & Travel on April 15th, 2016
Oh oh oh ohoooo my little China girl – David Bowie RIP
It is 2 at night in Hangzhou China and I cannot sleep. So excited! Just made a deal with a Chinese factory to produce my first cushion …
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By Claudia Potgieser
Posted in - Action & Travel on April 6th, 2016
“Please, does anyone got directions or coordinates for the ruins of the Club Festival as I really wanna check it out next week”, was a question I read on an Ibiza forum.
This was the …
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By Claudia Potgieser
Posted in - Personal & Travel on April 4th, 2016
On the first Sunday in April the parishioners of the small village of Sant Francesc de S’Estany celebrate de day of their patron Saint Francisco.
That is around the corner from where we …
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By Claudia Potgieser
Posted in - Personal & Travel on March 14th, 2016
Las Salinas Poem
Near the salt flats on the southern most tip,
where the buildings turn white,
white like the sun,
white like the dust,
white like the cross that rests …
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By Claudia Potgieser
Posted in - Action & Personal & Travel on March 7th, 2016
Our Sunday hike with the boys, brought us to the northeast side of the Island. Pou des Lleo (Lion’s well) is known as tranquil and truly one of Ibiza’s natural, almost completely untouched environments.
For these …
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