Holidays

Because my parents are currently on holiday, I am now in possession of a house. Two houses, actually, as friends of us are also away and I'm watching over their house, dog and plants as well. This is fairly uneventful, so I've been spending my time reading, watching TV or films and of course walking dogs. I took a picture of Arwen and Boris (the two dogs I'm looking after at the moment, the first one my own) and will scan and upload it fairly soon. While they're very different dogs, they fit together quite well as they're both black and white.
Thanks to the heat, none of the walks have been very long or memorable, although there's no problem with Boris, who is usually fairly aggressive towards other dogs, because there's simply not that many dogs being walked at any time. People make shorter walks, so the slightly off-beat paths I'm taking are nearly always deserted.

Last Saturday I went to Friesland for a family reunion, which was very good. Friesland is a nice province, sort of like North Holland but with more lakes and ships and a funny language. We went to Sneek/Snits (the city's Frisian name), a very nice place with an old feel to it. Seeing as basically none of us were real Frisians, there was much touristy behaviour, which included acquiring the top two local products, Oranjekoeken and sugarloaves. They tasted excellent, which, together with the company, made up for spending 8 hours of the day in a train.