Hans Faber
Dissolute Elisabeth and her Devil
In the Middle Age lived a once promiscuous girl named Elisabeth. She had come to repentance, found honorable employ as a maid, and had...
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Hans Faber
- Feb 19
- 6 min
Filmstar Ben-Hur made peace with Frisian raiders
Who 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 Faber
- Oct 29, 2020
- 6 min
Grassland Conversation
Being at the grasslands might lead to encounters with farmers or other wanderers and, of course, with ‘birdwatchers’ (see also note at...
Hans Faber
- Jul 6, 2020
- 15 min
Rats with wings or Masters of the Sky
Over the last years we have written about the people living in the twilight zone of sea and land at the southern shores of the North Sea....
Hans Faber
- Feb 11, 2020
- 18 min
Donkey King of the Paulme Game
Rex illiteratus est quasi asinus coronatus, ‘an illiterate king is like a crowned donkey’. Or, if you prefer the alternative translation,...
Hans Faber
- May 24, 2019
- 6 min
Giants of Twilight Land
On the edge of land and sea, where it is difficult to tell what is land and what is not, life is rough. The corrosive salt of the sea is...
Hans Faber
- Mar 10, 2019
- 11 min
How the Hero of Haarlem is actually a dragon in disguise
It was a Yankee by the name Mary Mapes Dodge who wrote ‘Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates. A story of life in Holland’. The book was...
Hans Faber
- Jan 20, 2019
- 7 min
Know where to find your sweet potato
We retrace our steps back to the sixteenth century. A time the potato was exotic. Nowadays children eat pastas, pizzas, burgers,...
Hans Faber
- May 23, 2018
- 9 min
Racing the Wadden Sea with a Silt Sled
The mud flats of the Wadden Sea are endless. But what to do with it? How do you give meaning to mud? Yes, one cubic-meter mud flat...
Hans Faber
- May 13, 2018
- 9 min
Bil. A wasteland of non-integrated migrants?
This is the story of the reclamation of the former Middelzee in the Netherlands. The Middle Sea was a shallow inland sea that used to cut...
Frans Riemersma
- Jan 10, 2018
- 1 min
Did you dance with the blue light, yet?
Want some magic while walking the Frisia Coast Trail? If you happen to walk the beach at night, expect the unexpected. Sure, you might...
Hans Faber
- Dec 24, 2017
- 4 min
The terp that should have been a wierde
The Hague, June 29, 2013. The day Zwaantje Vink-Brouwer, widow of Piet Vink, together with a party of local government people, re-opened...
Hans Faber
- Oct 29, 2017
- 6 min
A terp for Choquequirao
Why in heaven’s name should a terp be constructed in the Andes? To be more precise, the location for this terp is at the remote,...
Hans Faber
- Oct 7, 2017
- 7 min
Leeuwarden, European Capital of Exiled Governments
In Germany and in the Netherlands, Frisians are worried about the wave of referenda and separation going through Europe and the world...
Hans Faber
- Sep 30, 2017
- 11 min
PRESS RELEASE: Consensus for a Frisia Tribunal
It is a well known fact the Frisians fought in foreign armies. Whether as foreign fighter in the Mediterranean and the Levant, or as...
Hans Faber
- Sep 17, 2017
- 3 min
Escher: Land of Confusion
"Dude, take a deep sigh and look at the landscape of the picture below. Don’t panic. You're not alone and the world isn't empty. Slowly...
Hans Faber
- Jun 1, 2017
- 4 min
Boots made for walkin’
Besides Nancy Sinatra’s 1966 recommendation in her song; what kind of boots would we recommend to hike the Frisia Coast Trail? The...
Hans Faber
- May 4, 2017
- 7 min
Lodging etiquette in Ostfriesland
Before the owner of the house agrees to give you lodging for the night, it might be you have to show him your silver. Like a computer...
Hans Faber
- Apr 30, 2017
- 7 min
What’s hip and happening on the grasslands?
How do we Frisians spent our time off? Frisians in the Netherlands must have loads of it because perspectives for a job are about the...
Hans Faber
- Apr 21, 2017
- 5 min
How to recognize the Frisians by name?
This is one of the simplest things there is once you got the hang of it. ‘A child can do the laundry,’ as they say in Dutch. But...