Remember "Riverbend Cottage"? It was your second stop on your Australian trip in January 2001 and you enjoyed your stay with us so much, you even wanted to cancel the rest of your itinerary. We succeeded in talking you out of it but you did write in our guestbook:
Well, Peter and Merel, your daughter Maryclaire must be well into her twenties now and Padma would still like to see her, so when are you coming back? When you're here, Padma can once more cluck over Maryclaire while the two Peters have a few beers and sing the old Steigerlied.
After all, it's not every day that one meets a Dutch mining engineer. A Dutch cheese-maker, yes! A Dutch clog-maker, yes! A Dutch tulip-grower, yes! But a Dutch mining engineer? A rare breed indeed!
We hope to see you again soon!
