Here I am, on January 17th, standing at the beach of Lake Michigan-one of North America’s Great Lakes. It feels like an inland sea, as the Great Lakes were often called in earlier days. If you travel diagonally across the…
After the tournament and the photo sessions at the immense waterfalls, it’s Team USA time and USKF time. We train Saturday evening from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM in a small hall in the north of Buffalo. It’s such a…
On Friday, finally, the korfball part of my trip begins. At 1:00 PM, most of us arrive, and the request is made to meet at a good lunch spot. I take the initiative and find one a few miles from…
Thursday morning I wake up very early. At three thirty (nine thirty Central European Time) I can’t sleep anymore. After some reading and dozing off, I get out of bed at five o’clock. I have plenty to prepare, so I…
After waking up early on Wednesday morning and taking the train to Schiphol, I check in at Air Canada for my direct flight to Toronto, Canada. “Canada?” you might be thinking. Yes! Since my previous adventure in November 2023, there…
A lot has happened since the Chattanooga Korfball Weekend back in November. Feeling marvelous about the trip to the United States, I went back to Europe and we continued the conversations online. It is great to see that already in six different…
“Sweet Home Alabama!” About eight years ago, in early November 2015, I arrived in Birmingham for the first time. I drove in from Tennessee via Interstate 22. It was in the afternoon, with a clear blue sky and the sun…