Cold Quay,
Stowaway from East.
Fed, only determined.
Life is here now.
in Holland.

Recently I was at the Lloydkade in Rotterdam. In the early fifties my father (probably) arrived here in the Netherlands. From the tropical Indies to the cold Netherlands. He has never been back, worked hard and died in 2018 in The Hague. An eventful life, and on that cold quay I had to think about it for a moment.

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