Category Archives: travel

Last time I visited Suriname I wasn’t able to visit ‘Fort Zeelandia’. A small but effective fort build on the shore of the Suriname river. Today I wan’t to make for this, and so I went there packed with my camera. I love taking pictures and I was building my imaginary ‘Fort Zeelandia’ until some [...]

On the eight day I went to Jodensavanne and Blakawatra. Or not. Suriname is still a real South American country where things don’t go as smooth as they do in the west. Being frustrated with their personal situation often use methods to express this frustration that would be considered inappropriate in other places. Our guide’s [...]

Wherever there is fun there is also misery. Theme of the day was Naomi’s first day at her new school. You can imagine that a twelve year old not so much interested in the ‘group dynamics’ of this day. Fortunately, many of her old friends were assigned to her class. After dropping of Naomi on [...]

This Sunday we went to Overbridge Resorts. Overbridge is a manmade beach in the middle of the Amazon, around 2 hours from Paramaribo. It is a little bit more uptown then White Beach, where you would be blown away by boombox battles all the time. Truus arranged for us to pick a decent meal at [...]

On this beautiful day we hit the road to cruise through the province of Saramacca. A friend of Naomi joined in and we took of to get a decent filled bara, you can’t drive and relax on a empty stomach! Angy decided that I would take the spicy one and after some time I got [...]