Falling in Love with Rhenen

I’m liking our little town more and more. We have a windmill, a beautiful old church and steeple, and the Rhine. There are plenty of little shops and restaurants to make the downtown cute and fairly active. There is even a little fountain downtown, which after World Cup wins would overflow with bubbles! There a several buses and even a train station in town, so carless transport is relatively easy. And one of the best zoos in the country is just up the hill. “Up the hill” – that’s a topic for another blog entry.

I suppose it helps that The Basement couldn’t be in a more accessible spot – those shops are a mere 5 minute walk away. The steeple and the Rhine can be seen from the front of the house. Take a short walk, and we can be mooing with the cows, baaing with the sheep, and neighing with the horses in their fields, or giggling with the teenagers at the beach. Riding the bike a short ways, and we are following a path along the Rhine. The Rhine!

Dan asks me from time to time, “Do you know you're living in Europe?” Yes, I do, and Rhenen is good place to live in Europe.