June 18, 2016 The van Leeuwen's are coming !

A start of a special Blog to read and write about

the visit of the Van Leeuwen's  to Winterswijk in Holland

on June 18, 2016

a typical "Achterhoek" barn

 Not wanting to begin with the start, a mill, although the visit will start in a mill, because the van Leeuwen's will probably see that kind of dutch architecture quite enough during their stay in Holland;

I will start with Corle.
No mill in sight.

Corle belongs to the dutch village Winterswijk.

Winterswijk lies in the "Achterhoek", the east part of the dutch province "Gelderland"

We call Corle a "Buurtschap".

No, it is not a neighbourhood.

It's more complicated.

On a later blog I will try to explain.

Any way, you got:

The Netherlands,

also called Holland, Nederland, Les Pays Bas, etc. 

the people there speak Dutch,

a part is called Gelderland,

a part of that is the Achterhoek,

and there is the village Winterswijk,

with the "buurtschap" Corle.

Corle has also different parts:

such as:

Geelinkhoek, Mentinkhof, Korenburgerveen and more.

Pauline's sister, Lia Hofman, with her husband Aad Warmerdam

went to live in Corle after they returned from the US in 1965.

With us, their 5 children, all born in the USA;

Ann, Paulette, Marx, Adrian and Liesbeth

We grew up in Corle.

Well, that's a complicated start !

More will follow.....

And please, do understand,

my English is not great, it's simple, plain and, yes, probably silly

south view from Lia's house