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Enkhuizen
Travel Blogs from Enkhuizen, Netherlands
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Exploring Hoorn
Today Jose took myself and Olaf on a tour of Hoorn! We caught the train in, and first went to the Westfries Museum - in the most amazing building I have everseen! ( http://www.wfm.nl/english/info_e.htm ) They had the most random collection of items ...
The Gillot Family
... at Hoorn station (40 minutes or so later) and it was so nice - I was so happy to see them again! We drove back to Enkhuizen (after Jose laughed at me cos i tried to sit in the driver's seat! - stupid right-hand-side-drivers...! Lol) But Oma and Opa ...
The first installment in Oma's birthday presents..
We did not do that much today, but at coffee time (11.30am) Ron, Jose and Olaf came over for coffee. And with it they brought Oma's birthday present - brought to her early as they felt she would like to use it while I was here. They bought her a camera! ...
My last (holi)day....
Tonight, I fly out of the Netherlands for home... ... I slept terribly last night, not sure if it was from the jitters of trying to stuff as much as possible in my backpack, or from eating too much, or from eating too much greasy food, or sugar, or not ...
Belly dancing!
We did some shopping in the morning - we went to Albert Heijn, then to the local shopping centre - picked up some drop (dutch licorice), salty fried haddock, and salted (raw) herring! We had the salty haddock for lunch - it was nice, very fresh (and i ...
Alkmaar
... live. We drove to her mother's place, where we had coffee and Alkmaar biscuits (which taste suspiciously similar to the Enkhuizen biscuits!) - then Jose and I rushed off to her dentist appointment. Jose has been visiting the same dentist in Alkmaar for ...
Land of Water Museum, Enkhuizen, North Holland
Today I met with one of Gyongyi's colleagues, Hans, and his wife Irene, and they took me to Enkhuizen. We visited the Land of Water Museum which is a lovely, old village that is a great representation of a typical early 1900s fishing/farming ...
Meet the cousins...
... make them for you when i get home, dad!) and that was fun! So we sat around and talked, then ate dinner and "toetje" (dessert). Eveline was staying in Enkhuizen for the weekend, so she did not have to leave too early. Ahh... I love my ...
Sand Dunes at Schoorl!!!
Popped over to Ron and Jose's place in the morning, hoping to try and Skype with my parents (and the webcam!) - but they had gone AWOL it seems! So we decided to do womething productive and involving movement - Jose and Olaf had some friends who had ...
Almost an entirely wasted day! (thanks dan brown!)
I finally read (and finished! The da vinci code). So not quite an entirely wasted day! We did some shopping as well for cooking tomorrow for the family - it took me a while to find all the ingredients (everything, of course, being in dutch!). But ...
Cooking on Valentine's Day....
... ! Mental note : never use leaf gelatine! I told Jose that us australians just seem doomed not have desserts fo right in the netherlands! (Lol Jose told me about the fructose, m&d!) But it was fun anyway... Though the mess in the kitchen was not - ...
A day at home...
I just spent a day at home today with Oma and Opa. We looked through some photos, did some shopping at the local supermarket. Just a quiet day. In the evening we had dinner at Ron and Joses's, they made some pasta and it was nice to have the family ...
Happy 80th birthday Oma!
Today is Oma's birthday, and tomorrow I am leaving for Sydney... ... My how time flies, I feel like i just left! But what fun i have had... Oma just opened her birthday presents. From our family we have: a blue tablecloth, and a tablecloth with ...
Shopping, baking and roulette!
Today is the day I make Oma's cake! Went food shopping with Jose and Olaf, and we picked up what we needed from Aldi and Deen - could not find the poppy seeds though! Oh well... it will be an orange poppy-seed cake, minus the poppyseeds! Got back ...
A big game: Liverpool vs Man U
I just want to take this opportunity to say congratulations to Tony (if you read this, can you tell him for me Catherine?). We stayed home today to watch the football on BBC1 - and yes, Liverpool won! This is the first time in 85 years that Liverpool ...
Zuiderzeemuseum / Haarlem
The Zuiderzeemusem is an outdoor museum displaying 7 centuries of life in the fishing port. Then on to Haarlem with a town central from 1560 still in tack. After the 40 mile route thru the bulb fields the floats were parked here for the day ...
Enkhuizen
Good Morning. I am having great difficulty with the computer in Holland. It is far from state of the art & I have difficulty in uploading photo. But I will try again. Yesterday was a good day agin the weather was warm and not a cloud in the ...
I Return to Enkhuizen
... . I connected there for the train to take me to the north of Holland to a town Johns Balcombe/Westmore will remember well. Enkhuizen. I met Tine and as she works on a Ferry that takes people to the Zuiderzeemuseum.This is a large outdoor museum showing ...
A drive around North Holland
... that image of dikes on bikes. It's bikes on dijks in this country. ] We drove out and into Enkhuizen. Now that was a more interesting place although we never actually went into the 'centrum'. We parked on the harbour front surrounded by ...
Bad News
I called de Gier Maritien and was delighted that they could see us that morning, once we'd had our breakfast of bacon, eggs and beans. What is it about such food that is so enjoyable on a boat? It really is. Anyway, breakfast done, we set off back ...
Back to Enkhuizen (again!)
We were up at 06:15, to a very wet boat on the outside, again there had been a heavy dew. A quick shower in the marina (a point here – the toilets and showers were spotless; they are open 24 hours a day with complete access to the public, no ...
Back to Enkhuizen
The last day of May, only a few short weeks to the summer solstice and yet it was cold, grey and windy – oh and did I forget to mention it was raining too? Still, being hardy sailing types we cast ourselves off at around midday and set sail ...
On the hunt for a fridge
... some of the Dutch words, I know what he means! Once through the lock, it was only a short hop to the largest marina in Enkhuizen, the Compagnieshaven, with room for 600 boats. All 600 must have been there, as sadly there was no room for us, which in some ...
Back to Enkhuizen - again!
... to my readers – I suffer for my art!!! The forecast for the coming few days is for a frontal system to pass across the Netherlands, bringing lots of wind and rain. I hope that we get a window (we’re supposed to) to enable us to make Den ...
Walk around Enkhizen - & cold beer!
By 08:30, Ronald the electrician was on the boat doing electrical stuff and we were on our bikes, cycling to McDonalds to sample their coffee and use their free WIFI. 'Trouble is, they didn't open ‘till 09:00, so as it was only 5 minutes away, we ...
Sailing on the Ijsesselmeer
The girls had a rest day whilst the boys went north to the picturesque town of Enkhuizen. Here we met up with Jan de Vires and his classically renovated wooden Dutch yacht. We learnt that yacht is a Dutch word ("jacht"). Matt and Vince were on ...
Jet Lag Recovery & New Bikes
Jet lag is always so... much fun!!!! Everyone was awake at 3 am this morning. Ryan took Carter to the park across the street at 4 am (the neighbors must have thought we were nuts). Ian and I went back to bed and slept until 10 - we are now officially ...
First Leg
... Amsterdam station at 5:45 AM PST, switched trains in Amsterdam Central. Barely made it onto the train from Amsterdam Central to Enkhuizen. Doors started to close on Carter as we were lifting the stroller onto the train. Luckily someone was nice enough to ...
Sprookjeswonderland
Today we rode our bikes to Sprookjeswonderland in Enkhuizen. Sprookjeswonderland is an old fashioned fairy tale themed park about 10 minutes from my aunt's house. It was a ton of fun! Carter loved looking at all of the houses set up for each fairy tale ...
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