Hans FaberMay 78 minTo the end where it all beganLet’s go to the omega, the end of the Frisia Coast Trail. To Ribe in southern Jutland, Denmark. The oldest town of Scandinavia. A town...
Hans FaberApr 235 minDissolute Elisabeth and her DevilIn the Middle Age lived a once promiscuous girl named Elisabeth. She had come to repentance, found honourable employ as a maid, and had...
Hans FaberApr 1013 minWalfrid, You’ll Never Walk Alone.This post is not about Aindreas Ó Céirín (1840-1915), better known as Brother Walfrid from Ireland, and who founded the Scottish football...
Hans FaberMar 2061 minHarbours, Hookers, Heroines and Women in MasqueradeDockyards, terminals, pilots, warehouses, quays, wharves, anchorages, lighthouses and beacons, craftsmen, shipping companies, customs and...
Hans FaberFeb 196 minFilmstar Ben-Hur made peace with Frisian raidersWho does not know the epic movie Ben-Hur released on the screens in 1959? The movie in which masculine Hollywood actor, and civil rights...
Hans FaberDec 12, 20215 minA Horsewoman from Harlingen in the Scottish HighlandsMay 2017. One of the Frisian bastards hiked the Cape Wrath Trail. A hike of about 300 kilometres through the remote Northwest Highlands...
Hans FaberDec 10, 202110 minPagare il fioPagare il fio is Italian for ‘paying the penalty’. More literally, it means paying the fee. It is an expression the Italian language...
Hans FaberNov 14, 202110 minRescuing Rolling SheepHiking needs careful preparation, including personal safety. What do you put in your First Aid Kit? Do you possess basic first aid skills...
Hans FaberOct 31, 20216 minThey want you as a new recruit'In the navy', is a song of village people. Of the small villages along the southern coast of the North Sea. A water people once united...
Hans FaberSep 10, 202111 minLike Father, Unlike SonThe Battle of Tours in 732 turned out to be a turning point in the wars against the Umayyad Caliphate. The Caliphate was one of the...
Hans FaberSep 5, 202126 minThe Thing is ...The heart of western democracies is the joint assembly of parliament, cabinet and high councils of state. Its Germanic origin is the...
Hans FaberAug 9, 202146 minA Frontier known as Watery Mess: the Coast of FlandersAt the end of the eighth century, by decree of Charlemagne and under supervision of the wisemen Wlemar and Saxmund, customary law of the...
Frans RiemersmaAug 1, 20213 min10 words to travel 1,500 years and miles across the Frisian shoresAre these white letters on the wall encrypted gibberish to you? With learning a handful of keywords, you'll have deciphered them in no...
Hans FaberJul 31, 20214 minThe Raider’s Portrait of AppelsIn the year 1934, while dredging upstream the River Scheldt near the village of Appels in the region of Flanders, an extraordinary ship’s...
Frans Riemersma and Hans FaberJul 10, 20217 minWa bin ik, wa bist do en wa bin wy?“If you don’t care about your own history, you may as well leave the classroom.” Words from the geography teacher at high school Simon...
Hans FaberMay 29, 20217 minMore Flying 'Dutchmen'On the first of February 2020, one of the Frisian bastards of the Frisia Coast Trail tramped the trail section from the town of Bad...
Hans FaberApr 24, 202143 minHappy Hunting Grounds in the ArcticIf you want to find out who is responsible for killing the whale, the Frisia Coast Trail area is the prime spot to look. When you stop...
Hans FaberApr 5, 202129 minYet another wayward archipelagoPeoples of islands and archipelagos do not let others dictate how to live their life. One of those archipelagos that meets these criteria...
Hans FaberMar 21, 202111 minWith a Noose through the Norsemen’s DoorAlthough the conversion was a slow and cumbersome process, and only succeeded in-depth in the course of the tenth century, Frisia...
Hans FaberFeb 21, 20217 minFrisia, a Viking graveyardWhen reading about the famous deeds of great Viking warriors, often not much attention is given to the moments of failure. Not much is...