Tag: NB – INSPIRE ME
Kampong player Eijkemans makes a comeback after a horror injury: “This group is so special, I want to belong to it”
Eijkemans says what other people have already said: Kampong is a special club. He himself played for GVVV and VVA’71, clubs where players get or received decent pay. At Kampong,…
Retired chef Sybe cooks for his neighborhood: ‘Delight people with good food’
He does the shopping on Tuesdays. “Sometimes it really takes me a while,” he explains. “I go through the bonus offers of all supermarkets and then drive around town looking…
Utrecht in Ink: how two swastikas are therapeutic for Madhawi (40)
It’s summer and that means more short sleeves, pants and skirts. That also means more skin and more tattoos that you see around you. But what are the stories behind…
Mushrooms are shooting up from the ground, but is that too early or not?
Mushrooms are more or less nature’s garbage collectors, they clean up dead wood and leaves, among other things. The mushroom itself, that which you see above the ground, is only…
Nieuwegein a cultural hotspot? This lifelike street art should make the city hipper
Hip? Yes, residents themselves actually understand that. “We could use some jeu,” says a lady. Another sighs: “Sometimes it’s a dormitory town here.” Yet a big question arises, because how…
KNIL daughter Nona Salakory at the Indies commemoration in Baarn: ‘You can forgive and make up for injustice’
“I lived like this for twenty years,” says Nona, who lived with her family successively in Amersfoort, Vught, Eijsden, Aardenburg and Wierden. “In single-walled wooden barracks, where sometimes the ice…
These Utrecht women will soon make their debut at FC Utrecht: ‘The cheer from the Galgenwaard may soon be for me’
In addition to the fact that the three women all come from the province of Utrecht, they all started playing football with the boys. A blessing according to Tami Groenendijk.…
Cycle path at Lake Garda makes the place where Koen van Keulen crashed safer
This summer it is five years ago that Koen passed away. Greet, Gertjan and Koen’s brother Max still think of him every day. “You get up with it and you…
Baarns ‘nicest grandmother in the Netherlands’ passed away, Nel Tielen enjoyed her life
“Nothing broke, but it did give her a blow,” says Ida. “She was tired, very tired. I have been with her for the last week and everything she wanted to…
Descendants of KNIL soldiers write a book about the guerrilla on Timor in 1942: ‘They did not want to bend’
This first extensive Dutch publication about the KNIL guerrilla warfare on Timor in 1942 was compiled by the young historian Robbert van Leeuwen and the Verzet Timor 1942 project team,…