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News! 1-2 Busy with fun new activities. Also purchased an annual card that gives me access to museums! Read the brief news on Twitter always. The 'big' news will be published on this page. Become friends with me 'in person' or just digitally through Facebook. I'll keep you posted! 30-12 Entering the international market in terms of seeking a job. In the northeastern part of the Netherlands there is nothing to earn and the recession could take years. I wanted to move anyway and nowadays there is a lot of work in the southern part of the country and in Germany. Our minister of the job-department, Henk Kamp, says that one needs to be willing to relocate for a job and you know, he is right. 27-12 I'm doing short trips often these days. The weather is so soft! 18-12 The year 2011 brought me unemployment and I created the Holtrop family history book. It rained information and it poured down photo's, the past dripped through the chinks, and the wind flew with bravery through all my papers... I wish you all a sunny 2012! 1-10 I temporarily stopped communicating over the Internet. 28-9 Back from a lovely trip to Bonn, Niederaußem (near Cologne) and Valkenburg. Once, till 1958, there was the castle of the Knights of Holtrop, called Burg Holtrop, right on a hill top near Niederaußem. Once the knights of Holtrop rode through the wooded hills. On this very spot now arises a memorial cross with the words 'Zur Erinnerung an das Holtroper Kreuz'. 29-11 I temporarily stopped communicating through internet. 20-9 Now that I'm without a job and the recession could take another decade, I would like to take my chances abroad. The easiest way for me to start a career abroad is to find myself a job at a farm. I was born and raised as a son of a dairy farmer.
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Who am I? I'm Bernardus (Bernard) Holtrop, born and raised on a dairy farm in a remote region of Rotstergaast, The Netherlands. We enjoyed a joyful childhood at the wonderful Frisian prairies. A few years later I started my time as a student at the Dutch Van Hall Institute. I got invited to live with some friends in a joint household. I accepted and we got a legendary time. In 1995 I graduated in the fields of environment, soil, water and agriculture, with a heavy accent on IT. This succes entitled me to use the title of engineer, 'Ingenieur'. Since then I moved a lot from town to town and had many jobs. At the time being I thought switching a lot was stimulating, but as the years gone by I found myself longing for a steady career. I got some very interesting jobs and grew ambitious. But, last year I lost my steady job due to a bankruptcy. I'm seeking again. I am widely interested and have a whole lot of hobby’s.
sports I love swimming and equitation. I worked for many years with trotters as a stable boy, trainer and attendant at the now legendary racing stable Tjitse Smeding at Oudeschoot. I owned two horses myself, but sold them when I got busy exploring other hobby's.
to draw I like to draw (mostly portraits and animals) on large papers. I prefer to work quick, less detailed. With charcoal or red ochre. View of my works the ape, the sparrow, the old man with beard and the halcyon.
Other As I wrote earlier, I'm widely interested and I have many hobby's. I'm maintaining many websites, I like to walk and to photograph, I like to write promotional stories and I have a very strong affinity with ICT. I'm also interested in nature and environment, politics, sun, culture and history.
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