1946: still a Royal Marine but now back from Holland and Germany.
Extracts from another of the letters I wrote to Herta in Hengelo, with some reminiscing and requests unfulfilled.
Pleasures were fairly simple. Singing by candlelight may seem corny or romantic now but, then, we did it because simplicity was where happiness was found - and there was no other form of lighting!
"Apple Blossom Time" made famous by The Andrews Sisters
'Bill' is Wim.
Some of us thought we were God's gift to women. That makes two unfulfilled wishes in one paragraph!
Bicycle tyres may sound an odd request, but for the Dutch the only way to travel was on a 'bike', a custom they have never relinquished.
The pictures below are commonplace today in Holland, with parking like this normal in every city and town.
Why would we need a car?
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