An old friend from my days at the Delft University of Technology in Holland visited yesterday. We lived together in a student house with 14 others; fun times and great memories. I had not seen Huub for some 45 years. He is making a four week visit through Canada with his wife and their twin sons. We met in a local pub to watch the Dutch soccer team play the team of Rumania at the Euro 2024 tournament.
Pizza and chicken wings and afterwards they went on their way to make stops in Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Calgary, Banff, Jasper, Vancouver and Vancouver Island. I watched all the Euro 2024 games so far and a few of those games together with Opa Vandenboom ...
During the past few weeks I made a new friend who built 40 years ago a private tennis court next to his house. Bill is now 92 and stopped playing two years ago, but he invites others to use his court. Six days a week he has four people play in the morning for about an hour and half and then he treats them on a ice tea plus a chat. It keeps him young, he says....
Bill and his wife - a few years younger but keeping their gardens every day in beautiful shape - show us all a great way to grow older if you are lucky enough to stay reasonably healthy and live in such a nice house in a lovely quiet place...
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