Hemelvaart/Feast of the Ascension.
It's the day of the Feast of the Ascension today, also known as Holy Thursday or Ascension day. The Ascension of Jesus refers to Jesus bodily ascending to heaven in the presence of his apostles, forty days following his resurrection. When I was still young Mom, Dad and I would visit our church on a Holy day like this. But I guess that faded slowly away whit the following years. In my youth we went every weekend to the church, Dad was in a church choir, and Mom always singed along when there was a singing moment. Bless my Mom!
On days like these some Dutch people go to church, but most people go out, to festivals, events, or to shopping malls. It's becoming almost a tradition, on days like these you'll have to go out. There's on tradition with this feast what I like, or I must say liked. It's called 'Dauwtrappen,' people go on there bikes VERY early in the morning, and cycle. It's a nice sight seeing if many people do this, when you cycle you will see loads of other people cycle aswell. They will greet each other and continue there ride. I used to do this too with my friends when I was a teenager, radio with us and food and drinks.
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| Cycling in the early morning! |
I cycled today aswell, but not that far, lol. I needed a ticket to charge up my cellphone, ugh, lots of money, and I needed a bathrobe. Bathrobe? Yep, this comming Saturday I decided after long thinking and doubting the last few days to go to a sauna. It's been a while, and I really wanted to go to a sauna where I never have been. It's going to be a huge sauna/spa in the middle of Holland, I will travel by train and bus. The sauna is called 'Sauna thermen Bussloo,' it's a quit expensive sauna aswell. But it's worth the money, it's huge with lots of sauna cabines and whirlpools.
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| Sauna thermen Bussloo. |
For sure I will take it easy with my money there, the food there is riduculous expensive so I will avoid that. It was akward that I had to make a reservation for this sauna, just to let them know that I'm really comming. Oh well, I'm sure it's gonna be fun. Tomorrow might be a hectic day, I need to do groceries for this comming week, cause Saturday I don't have time. I have to re-book a excursion trip too, cause my other excursion trip to Prague has been chancelled. I will have to re-book a new trip trough my cellphone, that's why the phone charging today. I want to gett his over with as soon as possible.
