Broekhuijsen

Global Nomads...

  • Niels, Onno and Noelle in Amman
  • young local girl in Petra
  • typical Bahrain door in Muharraq
  • Onno
  • palm tree in our backyard

Quote

"Traveling is looking at yourself in a different back ground..."

 

BMW

Thijs made his dream come through, and imported a brand new motorbike into Bahrain.

Cycling in the Netherlands

During the summer home leave, Thijs and Mary did 277 km cycling trip from Leiden to Enschede

Jordan

Photo Gallery of our trip to Jordan in April 2010.

 

 

Where we come from

Our Home country is the Netherlands. We plan to 'return' to the Netherlands when this assignment ends.

Our life in Bahrain

We live in Bahrain since 2007. Bahrain is a small kingdom in the Middle East.

 

Swimming

Mary's favorite sport is swimming. She trains with her swimming mate and recently started with a new coach.

 

Noëlle's first album

Posted by Mary on 9/8/10

Noëlle is a grade 5 Piano student and continued her lessons at Sar Music Center. Her teacher Rob enjoyes her creativity and Noëlle has composed 7 songs. She performed one of them during a concert in May and now, with 7 songs ready, they recorded her first record.

Thanks to Rob for your support and encouraging our daughter!

Click here to listen to a duet: "Have you ever" (wma)

 

Counting the weeks

Posted by Mary on 3/8/10

One (long) week to go and we will be returning to the Netherlands for our home leave. Niels has traveled ahead of us and already started his job. He works in The Hague, Rotterdam and Leiden.

Onno will be traveling to Spain for a language/sports camp and Noëlle will be sailing for a week. Thijs and Mary hope to spend some time cycling around in the Netherlands.

Meanwhile, Noelle turned 13 and from now on, we are now officially parents of three teenagers.

 

New Article Published in Destinations

Posted by Mary on 7/7/10

Mary wrote an article about her impressions of both her visits to Saudi Arabia. The article was published in the Destinations (Shell expatriate Magazine) in issue 55.

The article starts here... (page 37) and finishes here... (page 38 + 39).