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RE: Travel: There's no place like home 🏡
I lived in this area in 1979, and remember well all the shipping, canals, port activity and action. Thank you so much for showing all this interesting background. I remember how flat it was and then you would come upon canals at any given place. And so many windmills!
Hehe that year I wasn't even born yet! Where did you live? Where do you live nowadays? You want more posts of the area you lived in? 😉
If you are very lucky, you will get to be old like me :)
When I was there, I was in Putte, Bergen Op Zoom, Antwerpen and Breda. I would love to see any photos from any of those places. Of all of them, I liked Putte the most. I was right on the border and took a lot of walks looking at thatched roofs :)
I am in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia now. I just got here a few weeks ago. I was in Bangkok and other places in Thailand for a couple of years before that.
Running behind with replying back 😅
Will try to cover some of these places during wintertime. Did you live in Putte? You give me a reason to return there once more, has been a long time for me that I've been in Putte. 👍
Kuala Lumpur is totally different I think when you compare it to Putte? What do you do, that you can see so many places and stay there for a while?
Yes I was living in Putte. I hope you do go; I would love to see it again. I think we were staying of the street that makes up to border with Belgium, but I am not 100% sure. I remember walking on it for sure because I was so excited to be able to do that. The thatched roofs were so cool to me and I hope they are still there.
At that time I was working for my friend's Uncle. He gave her the job for 2 years, but she was lonely and he let her bring a friend back on her first trip home to Canada where she and I went to high school together. I was 19 and stayed for a year.
But I was also in all of those other places I mentioned as well as Waldfeucht Germany and Halluin France. Plus we took vacations to other places constantly and the whole year was kind of a blur. We were taking messages and deliveries of things like cigarettes and imported foods like cheese and truffles.
We rotated through these towns and I have come to believe the whole thing was illegal and hence why were working in borders areas lol. I did not care because they were rich and I was having fun.
Now I am in KL broke as a joke and trying to help obese people lose weight with natural methods like I did eight tears ago. I coach, write books, have affiliate sales, blog and anything else I can think of to keep going. But my fat people want to stay fat and therefore I do not make much money. So I am here for the cheap and easy life :)