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On Tuesday we visit Wissekerke, the village near Goes, and then continue to Middelburg. At the gate of the petting zoo, which is closed for one and a half hour in the middle of the day, I get a headache. It slowly goes away when I drink a Paulaner Weissbier outside a cafe near the Lange Jan (the name of the tower, which means Tall Jan in English) and eat bread with baked mussels. Laura continues the drive through Borssele and its nuclear reactor to Veere. Veere is touristic, but quiet and small and pretty. We eat outside a cafe, right under a nest with as many as five blackbirds in a pot with fake flowers. I have a coffee with a bolus and butter, a typical delicacy from Zeeland. In Veere I buy a bracelet of labradorite for Laura. In the shop a cat is sleeping on a chair. Around five thirty we get back home, after a short stop in Vrouwenpolder to buy beer. I eat a herring at a stall.
View of the Lange Jan ("Tall Jan") in Middelburg.
Meadow with sheep on a dike.
Two foals of draught horses, playing.
View of Veere.
The large church of Veere.
Inside the church.
City hall of Veere.
A nest of blackbirds in between plastic plants.
The blackbirds are in a pot right above my head.
Sky. At the horizon is Veere.
When we're home, after a wheat beer, Laura asks me if I've already read my work-email. Yes, I have. But no, not this last one. My boss Heleen mails me that my permanent appointment for three days a week has been approved by the director of the faculty of Science. Yeah! I'm very glad. I call her to thank her for her efforts. We eat steak with potatoes and broccoli, and we watch The Bourne Identity. A permanent job... for three days a week! Wow!
On Wednesday we drive to Veere to buy a present for Heleen, pyrite in a piece of marl, in the same shop where yesterday we bought Laura's bracelet. We also search for Laura's other pink glove she lost yesterday. To no avail. We sit outside a cafe in the sun with a waffle with warm cherries and cream. Afterwards we drive to Middelburg and visit the petting zoo. The donkeys want to be petted and the pigs want to be talked to. We buy some extra beer in the supermarket, and in the evening we eat vegetable soup with broccoli and we watch The Bourne Supremacy and Ocean's Twelve (The Bourne Ultimatum doesn't work on this DVD-player).
Hare.
Even more sky.
New windmills and an older one.
A pink and a yellow bike.
Sunlight on a forest.
On Thursday first we sit on our terrace for a while and later we sit in the grass a few metres further. The weather is very nice. We walk to the village for coffee but we don't find an opened cafe with sun. Via the supermarket we walk back and we make coffee. We read and have lunch in the grass. Afterwards Laura goes to sleep and I walk through the polder, to the sea and back again. In the evening we drive to Colijnsplaat, which proves to be a beautiful village, but the restaurant is closed on Thursdays. We drive on (actually we drive back) to Kamperland and we eat there in the brewery of Emelisse beer. I eat sole and Laura has a red mullet. Laura drives back, so I get to taste the beer. It is good.
Flowers in the verge of a field.
Flower in the verge of a field.
A small farm with a handful of cows.
Poppies along the side of the dike.
Two horses with foals.
Pattern in a field.
At the beach near Wissenkerke.
Sun through the clouds.
Two pheasants.
Geese with their young.
Cow, pheasant and calf.
Geese with their young.
Flying goose.
Beneath the dike, at the shore near Wissenkerke.
Lonesome beachcomber.
