Tag: NB – INSPIRE ME
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,…
Descendants of KNIL soldiers write a book about the querrila on Timor in 1942: ‘They did not want to bow’
This first extensive Dutch publication about the guerrilla of the KNIL on Timor in 1942 has been compiled by the young historian Robbert van Leeuwen and the project team Verzet…
‘The curse of Eindhoven’: FC Utrecht has been waiting for a league victory at PSV for 43 years
The question has already been asked to many: how is it possible that FC Utrecht occasionally stunts in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, but never in Eindhoven? “It has always been difficult…
Labradoodle Flynn (1) is a volunteer at the Princess Máxima Center: ‘I don’t find it that exciting because of him’
Meanwhile in the waiting room: a game of hide and seek. “Ooh, see if he can find it,” says Milan, while he hides blue containers with dog treats. “Search!”, he…
Lisa (28) will never buy fruit or vegetables in the supermarket again: ‘We eat from our vegetable garden all year round’
In an extra room in the house there is a shelving unit with dozens of jars in all shapes and sizes. “Zucchini soup, potatoes, pasta sauce, beets, carrots, radishes, beans,…
What makes the residential street an Utrecht summer idyll? No cars, but children playing and neighbors drinking wine
In the Hennepstraat in the Wittevrouwen district, sod has been rolled out over the street and plants, trees, seats and hammocks have been placed. You can play ping pong and…