On Sunday we got off to a slow start, but it's Sunday so it's allowed. While eating lunch, Niels spied Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet through the front window. Sinterklaas is the Belgium/Dutch equivalent of Santa arriving on Christmas morning but it happens on 6th December (I'll share more details about it on the 6th). Because the 6th falls on a weekday this year, the are lots of Sinterklaas events happening this weekend. As it turns out, Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet were bringing presents to a party across the street from us.
Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet
In the afternoon, we drove to the Netherlands, pretty much for the hell
of it. Niels humoured me by taking me to some small towns where the
boarder between Belgium and The Netherlands runs right through the
middle of the village. We also wandered around a town called Hulst on
The Netherlands side.
Entering The Netherlands
On the Belgian side
The trunk of the car is in The Netherlands, the front is in Belgium :)
In The Netherlands
Hulst at sunset
After our adventures in and out of The Netherlands, we went to dinner at
Niels' family's house. It was lovely to spend time with his family and
his mum made us a yummy dinner and we then hung out in their majorly
cozy lounge room with ice-cream, a wood fire, family photo album's and
their 6 dogs :)
Niels with Falco
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