Report of the first meeting in Den Helder at November 2nd 2006

This first meeting of the project "Our Square Mile took place at "De Strandjutter" school in Den Helder, Netherlands.
Unfortunately the weather was not very clement. In stormy and rainy weather, we collected the partners who came by train.

Before the lunch we had coffee or tea with Dutch biscuits like the "stroopwafel" and "pepernoten", typical for this time of the year.
Present were:

from Finland: Minna Kinnunen

from Lithuania: Liudvika Norvilienė, Lina Petrauskienė, Jolanta Gilvonauskienė, Vaidutė Mažeikienė, Ilona Stonienė and Vanda Valantinienė

from Spain: Antonio Barreto, Mª Carmen Piñel and Eva Medina

from Slovenia: Zlatko Kauran, Zora Kauran, Andreja Košti,

from Bulgaria: Velkov Angel, Tsvetelina KilitaNova, Ana Rabadzhiyska and Tsvetanka Plachkova

from Italy: Giuliana Caperna and Patrizia

from the Netherlands: Gerard Oeljee, Hans Walrecht and René Hamstra

Near the wall: Andreja, Minna, ana, Tsvetanka ,Angel,
Tsvetelina and Giuliana
Tsvetelina, Giuliana, Joke, Patrizia, Hans, Antonio,
Eva, Vanda, Ilona and Vaida
left, in the distance: Zlatko and Zora
Angel, Tsvetelina, Giuliana and Patrizia Joke prepares the lunch

Time to exchange presents.  A wonderful moment:

After that moment we had a lunch in the auditorium:

Minna, Liudvika and Zora Ilona, Lina, Vaida, Jolanta
René, Titia, Lina, Vaida Jolante Lina, Vaida, René, Vanda, Jolante and Liudvika
Antonio, Hans, Eva, Gerard and Zlatko Marjan, Ana, Tsvetelina, René and Melissa
Melissa, Angel and Tsvetanka Giuliana, Patrizia, John, Antonio and Eva
Zora, Minna, Marjan and Melissa Jolante, Hans, Liudvika, Ilona, Vaida, Vanda and Lina
Tsvetanka, Joke, Ana and Titia Gerard and Zlatko

Then it was time for the real stuff:

This was a long but productive meeting. We stopped late in the afternoon, when it was already dark:

In the evening we had a dinner in the Waterworld restaurant at the old navy dockyard. Unfortunately we have no photographs of that event. At the end of the evening everybody travelled to Amsterdam again for a deserved night rest in the hotels.

The next morning Gerard organized a city walk through Amsterdam:

Zlatko near tulips from Amsterdam Rembrandt turns himself in his grave...
A passage with old masters on the walls
The person on the painting keeps looking at you.
The Begijnhof, where it is not allowed... ..to take photographs, as a lady in a window stated loudly.
All streets are worthwile to visit. Everybody on board for the sightseeing trip through
the Amsterdam canals!

Besides sightseeing, we had many conversations about our project and others.
At the end of the day we had to leave, unfortunately and said goodbye to each other. We are looking forward to the spring, when we will have our second meeting in Lithuania.

Left: what the paper wrote about our meeting