About Us

Both born, raised and educated in The Netherlands, Frank and Francien left their home country in 1982 in search for some adventure. Back then they intended to return within a few years, but indeed they never did! They immigrated to South Africa where their first daughter was born in Kempton Park. In 1986 Frank joined an American Multinational Petrochemical company and started a 28 year international career. They were posted in Italy, The Netherlands, Germany, South Africa, USA, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The youngest daughter was born in The Netherlands to move to Germany when she was only 2 months old. Frank and Francien have provided their two daughters Marcella and Winnie with a truly international upbringing supported by an excellent global network of International Schools and communities. Both now live and work respectively in Kuala Lumpur and Berlin.

1982 Eastern Transvaal, South Africa

1983 Kruger National Park, South Africa

1983 Sun City, South Africa

1984 Berlin Wall

1984 Oudshoorn, South Africa

1985 Marcella was born in Kempton Park

1988 Dow Ahlen in Germany

1989 - Another Intercontinental flight

1991 Washington DC

1992 Florida

1992 Lake Tahoe

1992 On Top of World Trade Center, New York

1993 Hawaii

1993 Niagra Falls

1993 Moving from Texas to Black Forest, Germany

1993 Black Forest, Germany

1994 European School, Karlsruhe, Germany

1995 Buhl, International Quilt Group

1998 Leipzig Half Marathon

1999 Leipzig good-bye party

1999 Senalala Game Park, South Africa

2000 Ex president De Klerk

2000 Riversands school, Johannesburg

2001 Namibia

2002 FIS Fun-run

2002 Frank at work in Antwerp

2003 Graduation at Frankfurt International School

2004 Sharm Al Sheikh, Egypt

2005 Kuwait City

2006 Bath, England

2006 Liederbach, Germany

2006 Scuba Diving in Maldives

2006 Petra, Jordan

2007 Kuwait

2008 United Arab Emirates

2009 Vermont, USA

2010 Sailing in the British Virgin Islands

2011 Parachute jumping in Boston

2012 Falcon Hospital, Abu Dhabi

2012 Graduation Kings College, London

2012 Jaipur, India

2013 Bali

2013 Scuba Diving in Red Sea

2014 Chang Rai, Thailand

2014 Paragliding, Nepal

2014 Dow Terneuzen, The Netherlands

2015 Sunrise compound, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia

In his first book 'International Roaming' Frank has captured this peripatetic family life.

Frank and Francien decided to change their lifestyle and withdrew from a fulltime professional working life. They left their last professional expatriate assignment in Saudi Arabia in March 2015 and have now established their ‘base’ in Malaysia.

Too driven to settle down in one place, something they really do not know how to do, they are determined to further explore the world, meet different cultures and places and taking on assignments that will challenge them.

They do not plan to be bored and therefore their bucket list is long and they have started to tick it off!