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Hans Faber
Aug 9, 202151 min read
A Frontier known as Watery Mess: the Coast of Flanders
At the end of the eighth century, by decree of Charlemagne and under the supervision of the wise men Wlemar and Saxmund, the customary...
Frans Riemersma
Aug 1, 20213 min read
10 words to travel 1,500 years and miles across the Frisian shores
Are these white letters on the wall encrypted gibberish to you? With learning a handful of keywords, you'll have deciphered them in no...
Hans Faber
Jul 31, 20216 min read
The raider’s portrait from Appels
figurehead of Appels (Flanders) In the year 1934, while dredging upstream the River Scheldt near the village of Appels in the region of...
Hans & Frans
Jul 10, 20218 min read
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, 202111 min read
More Flying 'Dutchmen'. Learning from an innkeeper
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, 202160 min read
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, 202143 min read
Yet Another Wayward Archipelago
The peoples of islands and archipelagos don't let others dictate how to live their lives. One of those archipelagos that meets these...
Hans Faber
Mar 21, 202113 min read
With a Noose through the Norsemen’s Door
Although the conversion of the Woden-devoted Frisians was a slow and cumbersome process that only succeeded in depth in the tenth...
Hans Faber
Feb 21, 20219 min read
Frisia, a Viking graveyard
When reading about the famous deeds of great Viking warriors, not much attention is given to the moments of failure. Not much is written...
Hans Faber
Feb 10, 202134 min read
History is written by the victors – a story of the credits
New York City, the Capital of the World. Other names are Gotham, Modern Gomorrah, Big Apple, Empire City, and Baghdad-on-the-Subway. With...
Hans Faber
Jan 7, 20214 min read
Presence of mind to ask the right question
‘The path will provide,’ is a familiar saying among hikers while on the trail. The flip side of this attitude is you might not have the...
Hans Faber
Jan 6, 202110 min read
A Wadden Sea Guide and His Twelve Disciples
For those outdoor enthusiasts who consider hiking the mud flats of the Wadden Sea, it is essential to know that this is not just a...
Hans Faber
Jan 4, 20215 min read
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 the...
Hans Faber
Nov 21, 202013 min read
The Killing Fields, of the Celts
About 2,000 years ago, a tragedy unfolded. A sixteen-year-old girl, who had suffered from scoliosis during her young life, was killed....
Hans Faber
Nov 20, 20203 min read
Oldest Vessel of the World - the Pesse Canoe
Pesse Canoe by Jaap Beuker The Pesse Canoe. The oldest water vessel of the world was found near the village of Pesse in the province of...
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