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Clinton: "I did not have financial relations with that village"
On May 28, 2011 Bill Clinton held a speech in Achlum. The village has some 600 inhabitants. Looks like a small audience to me. What was...
Frans Riemersma
Aug 24, 20173 min read


Celtic-Frisian heritage – there's no dealing with Wheels of Fortune
Exactly a year ago Hans van der Togt, a former Dutch television presenter of the game show Wheel of Fortune, told in the talk show Pauw abou
Hans Faber
Aug 22, 20178 min read


Frisian women: free and unbound?
Below Saskia Holleman: The reincarnation of Mata Hari, her fellow citizen. Saskia was born in 1945 in the town of Leeuwarden in the...
Hans Faber
Aug 7, 201724 min read


"My God, the Germans bought all the bread!" cried Moira
The essence of the Frisia Coast Trail is hiking through the heartland of (former) Frisia and to taste the landscape, its history, its...
Hans Faber
May 17, 201711 min read


What’s hip and happening on the grasslands?
How do we Frisians spend our time off? Frisians in the Netherlands must have loads of it because perspectives for a job are about the...
Hans Faber
Apr 30, 20179 min read


manual - Making a Terp in only 12 Steps
This is your DIY manual for enlarging or creating your own terp – your artificial settlement mound or house platform to be protected...
Hans Faber
Apr 23, 20178 min read


How to recognize the Frisians by name?
This is one of the simplest things there is, once you've got the hang of it. 'A child can do the laundry' they literrally say in Dutch....
Hans Faber
Apr 21, 20178 min read


How to bury your mother-in-law
Your mother-in-law probably chased your tail during life. When she dies, do not think you are free at last. If you're looking for advice...
Hans Faber
Apr 17, 20179 min read


Freezing Frisians, who are these people?
For those never having met a native Frisian, here is a crash course. There are some remarkable things to mention and rules to live by....
Frans Riemersma
Apr 11, 20176 min read
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