A Travel Blog
Recently my husband took a short term job with Vermeer in Goes, Netherlands. This is a big adventure for us mid-western Americans! I have amended an old blog page I used a few years ago to keep friends and family updated about our life here. I will update periodically. Take care everyone! We miss you!
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Food Highlight
9/27/26
Kniepertjes
These extremely thin cookies are a long time Dutch tradition. They come from the northern part of the country originally, and are often eaten around New Year’s Eve. They often have a design on their very brittle surface, something that has been stamped into the dough. One of the local restaurants always serves them with coffee. Lekker! (Tasty!)
An Unusual Sunset for Goes, Zeeland
A Dutch Discovery
9/27/26
Above is a picture of the common Dutch olive tree. 🙂 These are everywhere in the Netherlands, but no, the country doesn’t produce much for olives.
Both commercial buildings and private homes love to use these small olive trees for outdoor decor and landscaping. They plant them in the ground and in pots. You can usually find them by front entry doors for visual pleasure, or maybe in a flower bed behind a house.
Can a person eat the olives off these beautiful trees? They will not hurt a person, but they would taste terrible. So no, they are not edible right off the tree. Edible olives take a lot of preparing before they are palatable. The olives you buy in the store go through a long process of curing and brining before the taste is tolerable.
So the Dutch owners of these trees just use them for beauty, not for olive eating.
This is my prized flower pot for the season. It still looks this beautiful! In the spring, I randomly put different colored flowers in a pot and hope they turn out to be a great combination! This one did not disappoint! The plants blend well in both colors and spatial sharing.
Recent Weather
9/27/26
The weather in Goes has been gorgeous lately. We received some needed rain a week or two ago, and now the sun is out almost every day. The temps have been around 70 degrees Fahrenheit for a high. It is nice and cool in the mornings and evenings, around 60, which makes for wonderful sleeping. The locals say that it is unusually warm for this time of year, but no one is complaining. 🙂