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Friesland Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Friesland, Netherlands
A Saturday afternoon drive
This is a top pick! ... had our second Dutch lesson, got some things done around the house, and took a day trip to Friesland. Friesland is the northeastern part of the Netherlands. We drove up to it hoping to take a ferry to the Wadden Islands -- very remote islands with ...
PART IV (PRIORITY CHANGE?)
This is a top pick! ... was mostly nature reserve and that its name was something like "Trouillez." Luckily, there aren't many islands in the Netherlands, and one is called Terschelling. Unfortunately, Terschelling has about a hundred hotels. My heart fevered as I tried to ...
Save the date
... waarin de verschillende locaties nog een keer handig terug te vinden zijn: http://www.weddingmapper.com/goingarijp/the_netherlands/visit/0dhabf Mochten er naar aanleiding van bovenstaande vragen leven geef het dan vooral aan via ...
Winsum Y Groningen
Hola a todos. Les escribo esto desde la casa de Isis en Winsum. Un pueblo de unos 10.000 habitantes, aunque como todo aca esta re bien economicamente y super modernizado. Hay, como en toda holanda muchos molinos, canales, y bicicletas. Winsum queda a ...
Lisse and Joure
Tuesday July 5th This is very much a business day for us and we are treated to a tour of delphinium growers, flower breeders and perennial plant producers by Luc and the "Green Team". We find that they could sell many tens of thousands of our plants ...
An amazing engineering achievement
... to experience some brilliant Dutch countryside. We found out that Dutch people call their country Holland. Everyone else calls it the Netherlands, or Nederland. Their license plates have NL as country of origin and that's the country's title, but anyway, ...
Northern Netherlands
... , and get to our hotel. We drove over the Afsletdijk on the way there, which is very long, very famous dyke in the Netherlands and is entirely handmade. We finally got to Amsterdam, found where to drop off the car at the airport, and somehow ...
Back where it all began
Yup, indeed... After 21 months, 73.000 Kilometers and 35 countries, I am home again. For a bit, that is.... It's been an exhilarating period, with many adventures embarked upon, lovely people met, and lots of fun to be had. I had to come home to attend a ...
Vacation in Holland
Jack and I spent a relaxing week in a vacation cottage on the island of Vlieland. I met Jack in Utrecht and from there we took the train to Harlingen where we caught the ferry to Vlieland. It was a wild ride over there! Once on the ...
A day trip to Dokkum - Just some photos
... of about 15km from Lekkum took us to Dokkum which is a dutch fortified town in the municipality of Dongeradeel in the province of Friesland. Not very big about 15,000 people. This town (city) is also one of the eleven cities that form the 200km skating ...
Day Trip to Harlingen
... (locating the graves of Alice's infant brothers) so we took off and drove to Harlingen. Harlingen is the harbour of Friesland and a gorgeous little place. Lots of beautiful boats waiting to cross the Wadden which is the sea between Friesland and the ...
A walk and canal trip around Leeuwarden
From Alice's diary, "TUESDAY – LEEUWARDEN – 07.07.09 Christien, Cor, Mac and I were very slow to get started after all the excitement of yesterday. Cor did go and play tennis for an hour but the weather was not to good. Rain and wind a ...
Preparations
Due to some things that happened and didn't happen, it has been decided that I am going back to Australia! But, of course not without a bit of sightseeing on the way. I'll be flying to Jakarta in a few weeks time and then.... I'll do it all over again! ...
Home to Skutje Sailing boats and Friesland Lakes
From Alice's Diary "WEDNESDAY – LEEUWARDEN / GROUW – 08.07.09 The weather has turned sour but never mind we certainly can't complain as we have only had 3 slightly bad days in 5 weeks. Easy morning although I did spend a bit of time ...
With Alice's family and walking the local area
Some comments from Alice's diary whilst with her family "MONDAY – LEKKUM – 29.6.09 We are now relaxing. Pieti and Durk's backyard, beautiful weather, what more do we want. I was up early as per usual but knew where to find the tea and ...
Vertrek
... problemen hebt om in alle vier de entries te komen. Verder zet ik er voor Marry en Bert de foto's van hun nieuwe boot, in Friesland. Hun vissermanaak is 13 meter lang en wordt op dit moment getuigd. Na de vakantie gaat Bert er mee charteren, dus als je ...
Almost time to leave
Time for departure is drawing closer... I've wrapped up my 2 year Belgian adventure in fashion, with enough great beers and delicious food consumed in the last two weeks to last me another 2 years... I've got everything sorted that I can think of and am ...
Leeuwarden
... a much needed clean and chilled out in the sun. Just out of Den Haag there is a miniature version of The Netherlands, 'Madurodam'. The detail was quite amazing and it means we saw every building that was important... only on a smaller ...
Visservaria
Jan had eens zin in wat anders. "Lekker onstpannend rijden zo'n ding, hoor!! Ik ben er maar gelijk op naar Utrecht gereden en de volgende dag naar door naar Goor in Overijssel. Later weer terug naar Cuyk natuurlijk. Geen centje pijn." Jos: "Een dagje ...
Our first day at sea
In spite of warnings of high winds from yesterday we awoke to a sunny, relatively calm morning. Spent a lazy day at sea not doing too much of anything. In the afternoon we overtook another Holland America ship, the Ryndam, which was going in ...
Another Day at Sea
Today was another mostly lazy sea day. I started the day by participating in "On Deck for the Cure" – a 5K walk around the promenade deck in support of raising money for breast cancer research. This is an initiative that started a few years ...
The Sea again!
It was a horrible, wet, breezy morning and the outlook for the next couple of days wasn't brilliant. We were on the verge of deciding to stay when the harbourmaster advised us (partially incorrectly as it happened!) that the rain would cease at around ...
A day on Vlieland
It rained pretty much all night and by the morning, it had abated to a drizzle. Visibility was still very poor, (see photo) and we were pleased with the decision to stay here for a day. We decided we might as well do something useful and do some laundry. ...
A Friesland Cycle ride
Another quiet morning, but the last apparently, as the weather was due to break later in the day. After breakfast then, it was out with the bikes and on to Hindeloopen, about 12km away and accessible via country lanes and cycle paths. It was a fabulous ...
On to Stavoren
We woke to a perfect summer's day. Completely windless and warm, very pleasant. We woke early (not surprising as we tend to be in bed by 10!) which in this case was a good thing, as on this side of the harbour (and an impossibly long walk to the other) ...
A decision to stay
... ). One thing we did find out in the tourist information office was that the black horses we were looking at yesterday were a Friesland breed and very valuable, we were assured that the farmer would have expended every effort to rescue his horse! Later in ...