Mail troubles

Merry -X-mas and a happy New Year to everybody reading this.

It is halfway between the two party's and we still have snow here in Enschede. The original plan included some skiing in nearby Sauerland, but

Summer

It seems that summer has arrived in the Netherlands. The last weeks have been exceptionally nice. Beautiful weather no rain lots of sun. Tina, Sophie and Emily have only one or two more school days and then their summer break starts. We will go to Austria for about 3 weeks. However, it is still not clear where we are going :-( Kommt Zeit, kommt Rat :-)

Greece

I really try to understand whats going on in Greece. I am not troubled by what happened in Athens yesterday. To me such things are not really surprising. What I am currently wondering is how private profit oriented companies can judge the financial power of a country.