Yesterday one of my old high school friends toured a few of us around in his boat at the "Loosdrechtse Plassen" (small cottage country area near the town of Bilthoven where we grew up). All of us attended the same elementary school for six years, and a few were at the same high school with me. It is fun to exchange stories together from our lives of the past fifty years....
After the boating we had a meal at one of the local yacht clubs. Lots of smaller dinghy sailing boats at this club. I did a fair bit of practice runs at this small lakes area in 1975 to get prepared for racing in the 470, an Olympic class, during a period of three years (1975 - 1977). We ended up in the back half of the fields of boats, but nevertheless it was fun and excellent exercise....
Four old housemates from university I briefly met up with during a short visit to the University of Technology in Delft. All four civil engineers. The one to the right - Huub - visited us last summer with his wife (also an engineer) and two sons (also both engineers). The others - Frans, Bertus and Koos - I had not seen for 45 years. Today I ended up on the beach of Scheveningen on the shores of the North Sea (Atlantic Ocean). I will be here for two days before the last two days - in Amsterdam - during this four week trip. So lucky to be able to make these memory lane trips....
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