Utrecht beckons and a blog is born.

Not two weeks later I was cycling in slush and snow around Utrecht, the Netherlands, with my two student sons, exploring the shops around the Oude Gracht (the Old Canal) region of the mediæval town centre.   Being a Highlands lass with a love of the historical, accompanied by two similar offspring, we soon found ourselves warming up by pouring over ancient books in Hinderickx & Winderickx Antiquariaat sinds 1982. It was then that their "winkelsdagboek" caught my eye, and then my imagination.  For some years now the shop's historians have been fielding questions and enquiries from an eclectic range of browsers, and began some years ago to record their encounters and experiences.  Though it is mostly in Dutch I recommend a visit to their web site http://www.hinderickxenwinderickx.nl/ .  I owe the publicity to them for giving me the idea.  Perhaps there is a mention in  the winkelsdagboek in Dec 2010 of a South African Highlands Lass and her two student sons' visit....