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| Saturday, 13-Mar-2004 00:00 |
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Medipark Uden
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The first floor is for the medical section
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Demolishing the last part of the old school building
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The architect and contractor are proud of their work
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Our new medical centre is taking shape.
11 G.P's, a Pharmacy and a diagnostic departement from the regional hospital will be opened here in the beginning of 2005
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| Sunday, 7-Mar-2004 00:00 |
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an early sunday morning bicycle tour
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mist and the sun behind the clouds
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clearing up
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a new housing estate in Uden
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On sunday morning, between rain showers, I did a bicycle tour to the west of our village.
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| Sunday, 29-Feb-2004 00:00 |
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Bunthorst and Grote Slink
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the main drive through the "Bunthorst"
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a lake in the "Grote Slink"
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Ducks are paddeling in the icy lake
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Two estates which were created during the exploitation of the large moorland " De Peel" . On de Grote Slink is now an antropsophic centre for mentally handicaped people " Bronlaak". Most of the remaing part of the estates is now designated as forestery reserve.
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| Saturday, 28-Feb-2004 00:00 |
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From steam mills to lofts
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The bridge between Wormer and Wormerveer with an old rice mill
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old warehouses; pre-cooked rice is still made here
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modern cocoa processing plant between old warehouses
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The Zaan Area is an industrial district from 1600. Windmills became steam mills. The last steam mills in the village Wormer are now lofts, offices or restaurants, or still producing food.
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| Sunday, 22-Feb-2004 00:00 |
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The first sing of spring in Herperduin
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last of autumn
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after the winterstorms
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A sign of Spring:a Highland bull with a very young calf
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Today we had a 11 kilometer walk in a nature reserve 15 kilometers from our village. It is wedged between the motorway Eindhoven-Nijmegen and the railway 's-Hertogenbosch-Nijmegen. The forest division tries to restore it to a more natural forest bij cutting a number of pines so that sunlight can reach the undergrow. Theye have put Highland cattle and Exmoor ponies in it. They hope that grazing will also give a more diverse nature.
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| Friday, 20-Feb-2004 00:00 |
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Carnival in the moors
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long straight road parallel to the main canal
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junction of main canal and branch canal
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The house of the van der Griendt family
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Today in the Netherlands more the a million people took their annual Carnival Holliday. So there were long traffic jams. We decided to walk in an estate 30 kilometers south from our village.
Griendsveen has been named after the family van der Griendt. In the 19th century they started large scale peat digging in the moorlands on the border of the provinces Noord-Brabant and Limburg.They dug a complex system of canals for drainage and peat transport. Peat digging has stopped many decades ago. Betwee the villages Griendsveen ( Moor of van der Griendt) and Helenaveen ( Moor of Helena = wife of mr van der Griendt) is now a large nature reserve. The national forest department tries to reconstruct the conditions for new moor formation. We made a walk of 10 kilometers and the only living creatures we saw were geese, herons, ducks and deer. And we heared a woodpacker but could not find him. The traffic jams were only 5 kilometers away!
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| Sunday, 15-Feb-2004 00:00 |
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Looking for signes of spring
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The local brook De leijgraaf; no kingfishers
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A Restored 18th century monastery of the Franciscan order
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Today we rode three hours on our bikes to lok for the sings of spring. The winter is mild. We saw lots of crocussis. No daffodils or tulips.
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| Sunday, 1-Feb-2004 00:00 |
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Between to North Atlantic low pressure fronts
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Yesterday evening and this night and morning a violent storm went over our area. Roads and railways were blocked by fallen trees.
After the storm we made a two hours walk outside our village.
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| Thursday, 29-Jan-2004 00:00 |
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Snow in the village
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Snow in Uden
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Snow in our street
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Snow in de Heikant
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Some snow was falling during my daily trip through our village. The weather is so mild that it disappeared soon.
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| Wednesday, 28-Jan-2004 00:00 |
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On bicycle to Zevenhuizen
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Zevenhuizen with its restored old farmhouses
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Many hamlets, like Zevenhuizen, have their own crossraod chapel
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This was not snow but hail and cold rain
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To improve my health I try to walk or bicycle for a hour everyday. Or listen to a CD on my home trainer. Today it was a cycle trip to a hamlet nearby ; Zevenhuizen. The translation would be " seven houses". Before WWII this area was a poor farming area. The EEC common agriculture policy made it rich trough large scale agriculture. (bio-industry) The old farmhouses are now much sought after for houses by city slickers. Zevenhuizen has many beuatiful restored farmhouses.
In recent years we had hog cholera ( or pigpest) foot and mouth disease and bird flu. Sanitation measurements made it necessary that agriculture has to be done on an even much bigger scale. Older farms are somes converted to campingsites or horse riding schools.
When I left our house the light was beautiful after a snow shower. But ithe weather changed quickly.
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