We are now home again in Yemen for a couple of days before we take off for Holland tomorrow night. We have had a great trip to India where we met up with old friends from our time in India 10 years ago. We managed to see both Delhi, Jodhpur, the Rajasthani desert, Jaipur, Pune and Mumbai and had a great time with Dipali, Åsa and Jagat, Katrine and Frank and Giulia and Ronnie. It is amazing to see the development that India (especially the big cities) has gone through since we lived there in 1996 to 1998. You now hardly see an Ambassador taxi on the streets of Delhi anymore and whereas we had to do our shopping in small corner shops when we lived there, they have now gotten Malls and Supermarkets. Jodhpur was fantastic and very relaxing and we even managed to go the desert to spend a night in tents (not of the villa type but the colonial type with a real bed and individual toilets and bucket showers) and to see Jagat getting beaten in polo. It is of course difficult to write all about the things we have seen but you will get a flavour of it if you go to our Flickr page where I will try to upload as many photos as possible. So go ahead and click on the Flickr logo on the right of the page.
We are now home again in Yemen for a couple of days before we take off for Holland tomorrow night. We have had a great trip to India where we met up with old friends from our time in India 10 years ago. We managed to see both Delhi, Jodhpur, the Rajasthani desert, Jaipur, Pune and Mumbai and had a great time with Dipali, Åsa and Jagat, Katrine and Frank and Giulia and Ronnie. It is amazing to see the development that India (especially the big cities) has gone through since we lived there in 1996 to 1998. You now hardly see an Ambassador taxi on the streets of Delhi anymore and whereas we had to do our shopping in small corner shops when we lived there, they have now gotten Malls and Supermarkets. Jodhpur was fantastic and very relaxing and we even managed to go the desert to spend a night in tents (not of the villa type but the colonial type with a real bed and individual toilets and bucket showers) and to see Jagat getting beaten in polo. It is of course difficult to write all about the things we have seen but you will get a flavour of it if you go to our Flickr page where I will try to upload as many photos as possible. So go ahead and click on the Flickr logo on the right of the page.
Just a short udate to say that we are doing fine in India where we have been for the last week or so. We are now in Jodhpur where we arrived ysterday morning with the night train from Delhi. It is lovely here and we are enjoying ourselves very much. I have already taken at least 200 pictures and we will try to upload all of them before to take off to Holland on the 1st of Jan. I will write when we are back in Sana'a again.
I have been playing around with the design of our blog somewhat, and though it is not perfect it will hopefully be improved over time. One new addition to the blog that know Oma and Opa will enjoy is the access to our Flickr page. Though we have not uploaded many pictures yet (I have only opened an account today so I have still not had time) you will be able to access many more of our pictures on Flickr than we will be able to post on the blog. So though I will still post pictures selectively (no pictures of Lieke with morning hair) you will be able to access many more of our pictures. To go to our Flickr account all you need to do is click the flickr box on the right hand side.
We will be off the India the day after tomorrow so there will now be a two week period without updates. However, hopefully we will return with many colorful pictures, so see you in a couple of weeks time.
Joop's is turning four today and yesterday she had some friends over for a birthday party. After having celebrated quite a few birthday parties by now, Lieke gotten it down, though she is introducing new elements every time. At the request of Joopie we had a puppet show this time and also "pinning the tail" on the donkey. Besides that it was with the Piñata and a cake - all in all the party was a big success, thanks to much work from Lieke and Rachel.
As today is Sinterklaas, Swarte Piet came past our house and left some presents - Sinterklaas himself could not make it as he had to be in the Netherlands to take care of all the kids there (this is according to Liva) but luckily Swarte Piet made it and he left many presents, one of them being a game of twister that had to be tried out right away.