[2007-02-13] Marcel was born here and grew up in South Africa as his folks emigrated in 1971. Fortunately over the years, Marcel learned how to speak Dutch from his parents. Another real blessing for us, he lived in Holland for five years (from 1990) and returned to South Africa, where we met and got married. At the end of 2001, we moved to The Netherlands.
I'm a born and bred South African of English descent. My father and his family hail from the UK, as do my maternal grandparents. We were raised in a fairly colonial way, and practised a certain disdain for Afrikaans and the boers [farmers]. A silly remnant from the Anglo-Boer war?