Some autumn scenery (and a bit of football)

We started our week long herfst vakantie (autumn vacation) by doing a bit of wandering in a local forest yesterday. I'm surprised at how much I am enjoying being so close to nature reserves and forested areas over here. I was never really into visiting parks or gardens in Melbourne, but it is a nice thing to do on a sunny afternoon and not too overcrowded. At the moment the leaves are changing to various hues of brown, orange, and red, there are varying kinds of weird looking mushrooms springing up, and chestnuts & acorns are falling from the trees - a regular autumnal paradise!

After our bit of bos wandeling we travelled "all the way" ;-) to the local village of Schaijck to watch Piet (Jeroen's dad) referee at an amateur football match between the home side and the village of Oss. See him in action above! The final score was 1-3 and with the home side losing, the "crowd" of approximately 30 spectators was pretty quiet, and I missed having my meat pie and sauce at half time!

Alli xxx