My loyal readers will know by now that I live with my wife Monique and our two kittens, Rose and Joey, and our puppy Pip in the beautiful, wooded area of princely Baarn. This is a place in the Netherlands where part of the Dutch royal family also resides. It is a picturesque, wooded area nestled between the more famous Dutch cities of Utrecht and Amsterdam. In the past, the old nobility who lived in these big cities liked to retreat here to escape the stresses of urban life. These wealthy individuals preferred to travel by horse and cart, turning a journey of thirty kilometers as the crow flies into a trip that could sometimes take days.
Do you ever take a trip to green nature?
Baarn boasts many colossal houses and castles from this affluent past, where these noblemen used to reside. Practically speaking, we are almost neighbors with Princess Beatrix, the former Queen of the Netherlands. Just one garden away lies the world-famous Soestdijk Palace. In earlier years, King William II lived here with the beautiful Russian Grand Princess Anna-Paulowna (1795-1865), whom he was allowed to marry by the Russian Tsar Nicholas because he had outwitted the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo. Did you know that her father, Paul Romanov, died when this beautiful princess was six years old? His brother Alexander was part of the assassination plot.
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