Hello, my name is Arie Dekker and I am living in Kladde a small neighborhood in a rural area of (the Dutch part Brabant, in the South West of The Netherlands near the city of Bergen op Zoom.

Born in 1952 in Velsen, approx 25 km West of the capital of Holland, Amsterdam. Working for a world leading international Engineering and Construction Company as Project Director. For my work I often travel around the world and visit many interesting places, meeting people of different cultures and religions.

This gave me the inspiration to develop this small Kladde web-site, to share with people outside this region, not familiar within Brabant, how beautiful life in a small village in a rural area can be. Since Dutch is not spoken well around the world, I developed this website in the English language.

I am using this website project as well to get familiar with the development of Internet sites, and I do realize that this site is certainly not as flashy as many of the commercial sites being found on the World Wide Web, however if gives me a good opportunity to get familiar with the available tools and systems.

Since I have the opportunity to travel around the world for my work and have collected pictures of  the countries I have been visiting lately, I do like to share some of these pictures with you:

Kuwait Photos

Lebanon Photos

Philippines Photos

Dubai Photos

Seoul, Korea Photos

Libya, Tripoli Photos

This site is developed using Microsoft FrontPage 2003 and is running on a Dell D9150 Server under Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Operating System.

For comments or observations, please direct your mail to Arie Dekker at   mail@deklad56.com