It was during the time that Princess Margriet engagement with Pieter van Vollenhoven was announced.

In the eighties and nineties of the last century KLM purser Cor Snippenberg for "CAB" the journal of the Association of Dutch cabin about a hundred pieces written about his experiences along the way.
It was during the time that Princess Margriet engagement with Pieter van Vollenhoven was announced. yin and yang Or maybe it was in the time that C & A burned on the Damrak. I remember coming on board in Jakarta, on these events to have read. In any case, it was only after we went flying. In Jakarta yin and yang after the New Guinea affair Some walls in the city were still propagandistic paintings depicted. yin and yang In gruesome scenes of thousands of Indonesian soldiers were busy with right on their side, to learn a couple. yin and yang Belanda soldiers on the beach of New Guinea mores Several of our compatriots were miserably drowned in the water and others yin and yang spurted blood in large jets from the body. Fortunately, the matter is resolved through negotiations and has never run so fast. So in that time if you follow me, a colleague and I run the Hotel Indonesia, and we turn right. The sun shining but would undergo any moment. We refuse to offer us betjaks and we walk to the satay restaurant where I had once been. You were there with other guests at large tables or not outside. That depended on the possible rain off. When you were inside this former villa then it could happen that the fire grates such great clouds of smoke uitbraakten yin and yang that you could not see you about. Neighbor at the table By touch only you could find your glass in this pungent smoke cloud. However, this inconvenience more than compensated by the delicious chicken - and geitensatehs. As mentioned, we walked right out of the hotel. After a few minutes we were approached by a lady in a suit. It seemed a bit warm in the heat transfer. She had a somewhat hoarse voice, and as I looked at her I saw that her skin pores was provided, which she is using make - up was trying to close. Under her arm she clutched a bag. Whether the men had sense to go to her room with her. Well we were more hungry than anything else and we refused decide but polite. She dribbled industrious chatting with us on her high heels, and I complimented her on her good Dutch. "I've been on a Dutch school," yin and yang she said measured. After some time she realized that no business could be done with us and for our astonished eyes, she lifted her pleated skirt which we admittedly not great, but certainly then again no small pecker devalue! Her derisive laughter mingled with the twittering of mocking the betjakjongens that throughout this complication yin and yang had been cycling with us. A little harkerig we walked on. For "though you have been on such an expensive Swiss boarding school, anywhere you can learn how you should behave" (W. briquets). A few weeks ago on a beautiful cool summer day you could find me in the Amsterdam Public Library. I was there once in the books of the kite - closer look at how the hotel life in India came at him in the thirties Viruly. Well there I was kind of disappointed. The three books and a collection of poems that still had him acting only on the fly. That is of course quite a nice pastime, I do it sometimes daily, but stay somewhere is rarely discussed. Flying yin and yang was the target and not stay somewhere. yin and yang Also the fun book "Flying to the East." Writer, Henk Role, publisher, Romen, Haarlem. That I received from a friendly passenger makes no mention of sleepovers. yin and yang However describes with enthusiasm the earlier history of the Indies - flying business, which began in 1924 in an experimental way. When I decided to speak because he meevliegt since 1952 and therefore have a thing tells us. Purser with Pim Rosenkranz In his early years at the KLM you flew with passengers through all kinds of slip station to the final destination. Was often on those terminals emotional farewell to the crew taken. The last part of the Netherlands flew back home and they realized that they really were far from friends and family on the other side of the earth. Between the night stations were there ever made a stopover to refuel or use was made of the occasion, as the facilities were there, along with the passengers to eat to the ground. A normal question at that time was: "Eating passengers on board or on the ground? '. I also remember from my early days around 1960 that sporadically occurred, for example in Rome on the way to Beirut or Cairo. But even such a thing as making coffee on board was almost done. You just ordered something a hotjug 'coffee. For very long tra