Any Dutchmen around?

[Tjalling]

Although I have been visiting this site for a while, I want to say hello now to all of you hangers. I' am living in The Netherlands and want to get in touch with hammock campers nearby. I actually cannot recall when I decided to buy a hammock. I visited the Hennessy-site once by accident, looking for camping gear and was immediately lost. At the age of 54, sleeping on the ground became a nuisance. Now I am completely addicted to hammock camping. All my stuff I order trough the internet because there are no retailers in The Netherlands.
I am wondering are there any people (or hopefully groups) using hammocks in the Belgium-Germany-The Netherlands area, because I would really get in touch, tired of camping on my own. I am open for suggestions for locations to camp and gear talk.
BTW, I enjoy this site very much and am impressed by all the pictures of landscapes and camping places. Want to visit the US one time ( probably after retirement).

[2Questions]

Be sure to search out Duncan from here on the forum who is also from the Netherlands.

[slowhike]

And take a look at the HF google map on the HF home page. You may see a few there that are not to far away.
And welcome to HF!!!

[gargoyle]

My ancestory is from the Netherlands. Grandparents were born there, does that count?? And I live near Holland, Michigan. Mrs. Gargoyles mother was born in Groningen.

[Barefoot Child]

My heritage is Dutch/Irish and I used to love when my grandpa would give me a "Dutch Rub" on the head and call me his "Little Dutchman". I like doing the same to all the "wee" folk that I can catch these days.

[GrizzlyAdams]

My ancestory is from the Netherlands. Grandparents were born there, does that count?? And I live near Holland, Michigan. Mrs. Gargoyles mother was born in Groningen.

'nuther one here. My mother's father grew up in a village named Berlikum, near Leeuwarden. OK that's Friesland, a different country nearly from Holland, but still the Netherlands.

I visited once. I don't remember seeing any trees there though

Grizz

[mbiraman]

Tjalling; welcome to the forum. I'm not Dutch but have had a number of Dutch friends who came to live in BC Canada. Their all hikers now, up mountains. No flat land for them anymore. Sadly there still in tents (-;

[Scottymac]

hello,
My name is Scott. My mom was born and raised in delft. Not far from Haarlem.
I love hanging. I even use my clark nx 150 in my basement occasionally.
Nothing quite like living below sea level is there?
Scotty

[Lynx]

Although I have lived in the US for over ten years now, I am originally from Hamburg. Beautiful place....on the few days a year when it doesn't rain

[Duncan]

Hallo Tjalling,

Nou, we hebben elkaar inmiddels ontmoet op de Hiking-site.nl...

Now in Enlish:

Hello Tjalling,

Well, we allready met on the Hiking-site.nl...

For everybody: Tjalling is organizing the first Dutch Hang out thru a Dutch hiking-forum. And there are quite a few allready but not everybody with the gear "we" (espacially some of you! ) have...

But this might be a good way to convert or at least get dome people interested. With all the replies I notice there are a lot of misunderstandings. Well, the never visited HF!

Bye,
Duncan.