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Hans Faber
Mar 9, 202412 min read
Where are the corps and student associations? When do the Corpsbrüder and frats stand up?
Recently, regional newspaper Leeuwarder Courant published an article about how the town of Stavoren  was tampering with the stones of the...


Hans Faber
Dec 14, 20228 min read
The many faces of Friesland, that of a bastard included
May 8, 2021. Visual artist, photographer Arie Bruinsma approached one of the Frisian bastards . Arie explained to him that his wife...


Hans Faber
Oct 9, 202214 min read
Three books (and a comic) reviewed on Frisia. Is history evidence based?
You'd say: “Sure, the study of history is evidence-based and involves no politics. For this, it's called a science, is it not? It's more...


Hans Faber
Apr 23, 20228 min read
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...


Hans Faber
Feb 19, 20227 min read
Filmstar Ben-Hur made peace with Frisian raiders
Who doesn't know the epic movie Ben-Hur released on the white screen in 1959? A movie in which masculine Hollywood actor, and civil...


Hans Faber
Oct 29, 20207 min read
Grassland Conversation
Being at the grasslands might lead to encounters with farmers or other wanderers and, of course, with ‘birdwatchers’ (see also the note...


Hans Faber
Jul 6, 202017 min read
Rats with Wings, or Masters of the Sky
Over the last few years, we've written about the tall and weird-looking people living in the twilight zone  of sea and land: the coastal...


Hans Faber
Feb 11, 202020 min read
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...


Hans Faber
May 24, 20198 min read
Giants of Twilight Land
At the intersection of land and sea, where it's difficult to tell what is land and what is not, life is rough. The corrosive salt of the...


Hans Faber
Mar 10, 201912 min read
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, 20197 min read
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, 20189 min read
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, 20189 min read
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, 20181 min read
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, 20174 min read
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, 20176 min read
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, 20177 min read
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, 201712 min read
PRESS STATEMENT: Consensus on Tribunal for Frisia
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, 20173 min read
Escher's homeland 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, 20175 min read
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...
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