A selfie in Brussels with Gluhwein

Benedikt on Grand Place Brussels with the ongoing music and light show

It was very colourful and fun to see the lights dance to music

Benedikt in the Nu Skin office in Brussels

The Cube houses are representing trees and when standing together they are a forrest. Atli and Dora did enjoy staying in them.

Santa climbing into one of the houses

The stairs were VERY steep

Carrying suitcases or even groceries was sometimes a challenge as you really need to hold on to the railing

Atli and Benedikt waiting for the subway on one of our nights out

We walked to Hotel New York

We walked over the Erasmus bridge which is one of the newer bridges in Rotterdam

Interesting lights outside the restaurant

Benedikt and Atli at dinner

Dora and Gudrun also at dinner

It is a family tradition to play cards or games at Christmas

Healthy snack while playing - could not be better!

Atli and Dora showing off their kitchen skills

The living room was one corner sofa with a TV - very cosy in the evening to cuddle up all in one sofa

Dora slept on the top floor with view over a lot of the city

So amazing how anyone can even think of building something like this

There are very few straight walls in the house

The kitchen windows look down

Our old street in Capelle aan den Ijssel

Here we lived when Atli was 1 to 3

In front of our old house - when Benedikt finally agreed that this was it :-)

The playground looks a bit fancier now

The debate took a little time

This is the pond where Atli fell in when he was 2. He does not remember it but his aunt Lilja remembers it very well as she was babysitting him.

Out in town checking out the NAI museum

Dora making her own wall paper sketch at the museum

Atli experiencing a very strange room - part of the NAI museum

Book stores are one of our favourite places to stroll

Benedikt in front of his former school, Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)

In Gouda on a cold winter day

Gouda has a very nice square that was naturally decorated for Christmas

And we saw the original Gouda cheese

Charming

Atli really liked the idea of having a bridge to your front door

Such fascinating small streets

On our way back from Gouda - typical Dutch landscape

Hot chocolate on the beach at Scheveningen

We only stopped a short while in Scheveningen as it was pretty windy and pretty cold