Hans FaberMar 305 min"The man wants another steak," she snapped at the waitressWhen thru-hiking, special encounters are part of the experience. One such encounter happened when one of the Frisian bastards completed...
Hans FaberMar 97 minWhere are the student corps and associations? Where are the frats and dickheads?Recently, the regional newspaper Leeuwarder Courant published an article about how the town of Stavoren was tampering with the stones of...
Hans FaberFeb 1812 minThe Chronicles of Warnia. When history seems a fantasy storyThe fate of tribes and tribe names during the age of the Wandering of Peoples, between the fourth and the sixth centuries, was uncertain....
Hans FaberFeb 421 minGuerrilla in the Polder. The Battle of Vroonen in 1297What’s the use of celebrating only the battles you have won? Feeling proud and superior as a nation above that of another, and the...
Hans FaberJan 137 minThe bishop from Frisia who proceeded The Hunger GamesKatniss Everdeen, a character portrayed by the American actress Jennifer Lawrence, is survivor and victor of The Hunger Games. She comes...
Hans FaberJan 736 minStavoren. A balancer on a slack rope of religion, trade, land, water, Holland and FrisiaFor many turbulent centuries, the town of Stavoren was a tightrope walker before it finally settled as a small harbour at the Lake...
Hans FaberDec 23, 20236 minSurf on someone else’s Turf. Hiking the Rota VicentinaBoxing Day 2022. The Frisian bastard woke up in the small village of Aljezur in the southwest of Portugal. It was day ten for him hiking...
Hans FaberDec 3, 202312 minThe Deer Hunter of Fallward, and his Throne of the MarshClose to a terp named Fallward near the village of Wremen in Land Wursten, archaeologists discovered a unique site offering a rare...
Hans FaberNov 25, 20239 minA Collection of Frisian Forenames of the First MillenniumDespite the fact that some Frisian forenames still find their way into modern name-giving, like Doutzen, Femke, Finn, Jildou, Jitske,...