First blog post

It feels strange to write this first blog post. It's strange because it's the first post and the blog looks so empty. It's also strange to write in English. My previous blog (www.marcelsandra.blogspot.com) is in Dutch. On this blog I will write about our Australian experience but foremost I want to share information with others interested in Sydney.

I write this blog post as if I already live in Australia. This is not the case! I'm still in Holland where I try to explain my kids about the two Santa Clauses: the Dutch Santa Claus (or Sinterklaas) and the English one. The Dutch Santa Claus or 'Sinterklaas' celebrates his birthday on December 5. He then goes back to Spain. Does that make sense?

Tomorrow I will dress up my kids as Black Peet (zwarte piet) to see the arrival of Sinterklaas in the Dutch city of Zutphen, a beautifull old town in the East of the Netherlands. If you want to visit Zutphen (about 1 hour by train from Amsterdam), this is the website from the local tourist office. The site is in Dutch and in German. No English. Sorry.

This is a picture of my daughter watching the arrival of Sinterklaas in Woerden last week: