After returning from Scandinavia on the weekend, I hopped in the car Monday morning for another long drive. This time instead of vacationing, it was to drive to Eberbach, Germany to pick up my new single and tour the Empacher factory. My Dutch rowing partner was extremely friendly and volunteered to drive me […]
Paula left to meet her mother in London for a few days, leaving me as a bachelor in the Netherlands. While she was gone I decided to go carousing through the Netherlands drinking and hanging out with my buddies. By the end of the day I had seen a lot of the Netherlands, […]
On December 10, Paula had her first European race, in the Dames dubbel-twee (W2X) event in the ERV Beatrix Head Trials. This is a relatively small local race, but with distances in the Netherlands being so short and rowing relatively widespread, three clubs from other cities participated as well as the club members. Race conditions […]
October 21, 2006
Ted and his partner Erik-Jan rowed together in the Veterans 2x at the Tromp Boat Race in Amstelveen, near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The race was a 5.2 meter race on a cannel through the Dutch countryside with great weather by local standards. The course even had a classic windmill near […]