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Are these white letters on the wall encrypted gibberish to you? With learning a handful of keywords, you'll have deciphered them in no...

In the year 1934, while dredging upstream the River Scheldt near the village of Appels in the region of Flanders, an extraordinary ship’s...

If you want to find out who is responsible for killing the whale, the Frisia Coast Trail area is the prime spot to look. When you stop...

The peoples of islands and archipelagos do not let others dictate how to live their lives. One of those archipelagos that meets these...

Although the conversion of the Woden-devoted Frisians  was a slow and cumbersome process that only succeeded in depth in the tenth...

New York City, the Capital of the World. Other names are Gotham, Modern Gomorrah, Big Apple, Empire City, and Baghdad-on-the-Subway. With...

July 1987. The two Frisian bastards , both being sixteen years old at the time, went to the village of Wijnaldum – Winaem  in the...

Being on the grasslands might lead to encounters with farmers or other wanderers, and of course, with ‘birdwatchers’ – see also the note...

Halfway through the ninth century, Vikings had established a more or less permanent presence in Frisia, in the pagus  'territory' called...

Rex illiteratus est quasi asinus coronatus , ‘a king who cannot read is like a crowned donkey’. Or, if you prefer the literal...

Tidal marshlands and Frisians. A dual entity. The Chauci and the Frisians ( Frisii  or Fresones ) had learned to adapt to this...

Last year (2019), one of the bastards hiked the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in southwestern Wales ( Cymru ). A 290 kilometres long trail....

In this blog post, we will explain that the Frisian lands might as well be named the United Frisian Emirates. Of course, there are some...

With the upcoming seasonal festivities at the end of the year, it's appropriate to serve you a flavourful cocktail. It's a cocktail from...

How to settle the scores in medieval Frisia when you killed someone: the function of a weregeld.

September 2018, one of the bastards hiked the Grande Randonnée 20 in Corsica. Or, as the French say, la GR-vingt . The GR20 is...

It was not the city of Parisius  ('Paris'). Nor that of Londinium  ('London'). Believe it or not, the early-medieval center for expensive...

This is the story of the reclamation of the former Middelzee in the Netherlands. The Middelzee was a shallow inland sea that used to cut...

In Germany and in the Netherlands, Frisians are worried about the wave of referenda and separations going through Europe and the world in...

"Dude, take a deep sigh and look at the landscape of the picture below. Don’t panic. You're not alone and the world isn't empty. Slowly...