This is not a post about the current agriculture and nitrogen debates between the government in Brussels and farmers in Flanders, Germany and the Netherlands. Not about farmers driving to The Hague capital with their tractors. No, this is the two-millennia-old story of two Frisian kings who travelled all the way to Rome, the capitalContinue reading “Barbarians riding to the Capital to claim rights on farmland”
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The Killing Fields, of the Celts
About 2,000 years ago, a tragedy unfolded. A sixteen-year-old girl, who suffered from scoliosis during her young life, was killed. Her red hair was shaved off on one side, she was stabbed at the base of her neck on the right shoulder, and strangled with a woollen rope. The rope was still around her neck.Continue reading “The Killing Fields, of the Celts”
Celtic-Frisian heritage: There’s no dealing with the Wheel of Fortune
August 2016, in the Dutch late-night talk show Pauw, former television presenter of the game show Wheel of Fortune, Hans van der Togt, told about his hard and miserable life in province Friesland. In this post we’ll explain plain and simple it was Hans’ pagan doom or destiny to end up in Frisia, despite theContinue reading “Celtic-Frisian heritage: There’s no dealing with the Wheel of Fortune”
Frisia Coast Trail 