Reader123,
I admire your tenacity.
("But they can't build the Boys of the Bulldog Breed/That made Old England's Name").
None of our people (
AFAIK) learned Dutch. Many Dutch spoke fluent German (particularly in the border country). But they didn't like it (could the events of the recent past have had anything to do with that ?)
But the poor
Englander had only their own language (and some a smattering of French), never mind another, and a
third was quite out of the question.
So we got along just fine over there with English and pidgin German !.....D.
Chugalug,
I've edited my #4494 and #4496 above (Senior Moments !). I only have a general recollection of being somewhere down the "bottom" of Akerstraat, and on the eastern side, but on the satellite map
nothing is familiar. Fifty years have passed: I can't remember the house number, (that's
it I'm afraid). But thanks for your help.
So the
Parallelweg might have been some short-cut on the way to & from GK.... ..D.
Regards, Danny.