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10 words to travel 1,500 years and miles across the Frisian shores
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Hans Faber
- Jul 31, 2021
- 5 min
The raider’s portrait from Appels
In the year 1934, while dredging upstream the river Scheldt near the village of Appels in the region of Flanders, an extraordinary ship’s...
Hans & Frans
- Jul 10, 2021
- 7 min
Wa 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 Faber
- May 29, 2021
- 10 min
More 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 Faber
- Apr 24, 2021
- 54 min
Happy Hunting Grounds in the Arctic
If you want to find out who's responsible for killing the whale, the Frisia Coast Trail area is the prime spot to look. When you stop...
Hans Faber
- Apr 5, 2021
- 35 min
Yet another wayward archipelago
The peoples of islands and archipelagos don’t let others dictate how to live their life. One of those archipelagos that meets these...
Hans Faber
- Mar 21, 2021
- 12 min
With a Noose through the Norsemen’s Door
Although the conversion was a slow and cumbersome process, and only succeeded in-depth in the course of the tenth century, Frisia...
Hans Faber
- Feb 21, 2021
- 8 min
Frisia, a Viking graveyard
When reading about the famous deeds of great Viking warriors, often not much attention is given to the moments of failure. Not much is...
Hans Faber
- Feb 10, 2021
- 30 min
History is written by the victors – a history of the credits
New York City, the Capital of the World. Other names are Gotham, Modern Gomorrah, The Big Apple, Empire City and Baghdad-on-the-Subway....
Hans Faber
- Jan 7, 2021
- 3 min
Presence of mind to ask the right question
‘The path will provide,’ is a familiar saying of hikers on the trail. The flipside of this attitude is you might not have the keenness to...
Hans Faber
- Jan 6, 2021
- 9 min
A Wadden Sea Guide and His Twelve Disciples
For those outdoor freaks who consider hiking the mud flats of the Wadden Sea, it is essential to know this is, in fact, not a worldly...
Hans Faber
- Jan 4, 2021
- 4 min
Expelled from Regal Grounds
July 1987. The two Frisian bastards, both being sixteen years old at the time, went to the village of Wijnaldum, or Winaem in Mid-Frisian...
Hans Faber
- Nov 21, 2020
- 12 min
The Killing Fields, of the Celts
About 2,000 years ago a tragedy unfolded. A sixteen-years-old girl, who suffered during her young life from scoliosis, was killed. Her...
Hans Faber
- Nov 20, 2020
- 3 min
Oldest Vessel of the World
The Pesse Canoe. The oldest water vessel of the world was found near the village of Pesse in province Drenthe, the Netherlands. It is...
Hans Faber
- Nov 15, 2020
- 13 min
Rowing souls of the dead to Britain: the ferryman of Solleveld
In 2004, a unique discovery was made at the early-medieval grave field of Solleveld, just south of the city of The Hague: a boat grave....
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