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 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...
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 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 FaberJan 6, 20219 minA Wadden Sea Guide and His Twelve DisciplesFor 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 FaberJan 4, 20214 minExpelled from Regal GroundsJuly 1987. The two bastards, both being sixteen years old at the time, went to the village of Wijnaldum, or Winaem in Mid-Frisian...
Hans FaberNov 21, 202010 minThe Killing Fields, of the CeltsAbout 2,000 years ago a tragedy unfolded. A sixteen-years-old girl, who suffered during her young life from scoliosis, was killed. Her...
Hans FaberNov 20, 20203 minOldest Vessel of the WorldThe Pesse Canoe. The oldest water vessel of the world was found near the village of Pesse in province Drenthe, the Netherlands. It is...
Hans FaberNov 15, 202013 minRowing souls of the dead to Britain: the ferryman of SolleveldIn 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....
Hans FaberOct 29, 20205 minGrassland conversationsBeing at the grasslands might lead to encounters with farmers or other wanderers and, of course, with ‘birdwatchers’ (see also note at...
Hans FaberApr 26, 202034 minIt all began with piracyThe arrival of the Romans in northwest Europe at the beginning of the era, with the River Rhine as frontier, was the starting signal for...
Hans FaberDec 1, 20194 minThe shipwrecked people of the salt marshesTidal marshlands and Frisians, a dual entity. The Chauci and the Frisians (Frisii) had learned to adapt to this unprotective, hospitable...
Hans FaberOct 25, 201918 minGroove is in the HearthThe hearth was in pre- and early-medieval times the holy of holies, the heart of the family. Where you would lay back and groove. Groove...
Hans FaberJul 27, 201913 minOrnament of the Gods found in a mound of clayIn the year 516, king Hygelac of the Geats, a tribe in the southeast of Sweden, raided Frisia. Back then, this part of the Netherlands...
Hans FaberJul 21, 20198 minAnother brick in the wallWho has not dined at least once in an ’80s Chinese restaurant that carried the name ‘The Great Wall’? At least you have been at one for a...