Here's to you Utrecht

A year ago we left Utrecht. We had dinner at Chez Willy's on the Oudegracht and dessert at Venecia.

For this toast, we are proud to announce that we have perfect the Bitter Lemon Recipe, this was one of our favorite drinks in Utrecht:

Bitter Lemon
Lemon Syrup
1 part sugar
1 part water
dissolve in sauce pan over medium heat. When sugar is completely dissolved add
1 part lemon juice
chill completely

Mix
1 part lemon syrup
3 parts chilled tonic water

Serve over ice (with Scottish whiskey is also a nice touch and an Utrecht favorite)

So it was one year ago today that we wrote our last post in our old blog, wegodutch.blogspot.com. I cried when I wrote that entry. It's been a hard year. Harder than we thought to come back. We miss a great deal about Utrecht. We miss walking and biking everywhere. We miss our apartment along the canal. We miss our trips all over Europe. We miss the pace of life. Of course, there are good things about being back in the US....we are closer to family. We are in the same time zone for phone calls. We have a real oven again. But something about that year and a half in Utrecht has really seeped into our souls. Do you know that we still listen to the CD of the Dom bells on Sunday mornings?



So...Here's to you Utrecht. The rattle of bikes over the cobblestones, the voices echoing down the narrow alleys, the coffee's in the sun, the beers by oudegracht, the cows along the train lines, the windmills watching silently over everything, the evening walks for roomijs, the morning walks for fresh appelflappen, the little stores that had plenty to buy, the flowers in the park, the bouquets that filled our rooms every day, the wonderful cheese, and the cathedral bells echoing over the canals.
Cheers.