Leeuwarden
Travel Blogs from Leeuwarden, Netherlands
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The Netherlands: Part VI
Leeuwarden is the capital city of the Dutch province of Friesland. It is situated in the north of 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Day 3
... interesting for the first 1/3 of the trip. But the last 2/3's were really long. After taking the tour I decided that the Netherlands is the Iowa of Europe. Which means it was flat, lots of corn, and lots of cows. After the tour ...
Day 4
Slept in nothing to do today. My roommate showed up. I talked to him for a while and then sat down to write in the travel blog. That's about ...
Day 5
Monday I went to Stenden to meet with the other foreign exchange kids and the FReC people. WE talked a little bit about what we were going to be doing for the week. Then after that we headed down town and split up in to groups and went off ...
Day 12
First Day of Class. Well I honestly had no idea what time I was supposed to be at class. So I showed up very early an went to one office and then got sent to another one and another one and so on by the time I was in the fifth office I almost ...
Day 1
Well so I arrived at the Amsterdam Ariport around 8ish in the morning. It was after long flight. (So just to let you know when you get a seat in the emergency exit row take the middle or aisle seat. You get more leg room. The ...
North COuntry
An amazing time with great people. This is where we spent most of our time while in the Netherlands. The shopping was great. Rode bikes everywhere. Went to cafes and smoked the ganj. Walked across the ocean for three ...
Day 11
Didn't do much at all today. Nothing to do in town on Sundays. Took a nap. Hung out with some friends. Going to get ready for first day of class ...
Day 2
So I woke up at 9am after a nice long nap that started at 530 pm the day before. I then headed to Stenden which is usually a 15 - 20 minute walk but I turned It in to a 35 min because I had no idea on how to get there. I had to ask how to ...
Day 6
After a very long walk home from the previous night, I slept in. We met at Stenden and then hoped on a bus and went to a western style bowling alley. The owner tried to make it look like Texas or some thing of that style. ...
Day 7
This was the most boring day of the week. We met at Stenden in the morning and then just went over things for school. Toured the school again and so on. Had some lunch, then back to more stuff in the school. After we were done ...
Stephen R. Covey changes our plans
This is turning out to be a long travel day. Finally we reach our destination, a small city in northern Netherlands called Leeuwarden where Gary's friends live. We enter the city around 8:00 PM and head to one of Gary's familiar sights, then ...
Op naar Afrika
Vanaf +/- 6 juli zal ik niet meer woonachtig zijn in het mooie Leeuwarden (weekenden Julianadorp) maar voor de komende 6 maanden in het verre Zuid Afrika! Waarom? Omdat ik daar mijn minor, van de hogere hotelschool, gespecialiseerd op Wildlife & Lodge ...
Airshow Leeuwarden
First visit to an airshow. Managed to get a picture of the B1 breaking the soundbarier... To great pain to my ears... ...
Het avontuur begint!
We zijn vertrokken! Hieronder volgen de verhalen en wat foto's van onze reis naar en door afrika. Opmerking: De eerste verhalen (tot de testfoto) zijn een in stukken geknipt verhaal, dat ik op de aankomstdag schreef. Door het opknippen, kan het zijn ...
Day 13
Fun canceled do to rain. Thats about it. I had no class today. I woke up at 9 to head to the bookstore at school to get books and it was raining. Woke back up at noon. and raining. Got out of bed and made lunch. Done ...
last week before the great adventure begins
... now the great adventure of six months in South East Asia will start. However, this means I have to make my final goodbyes in Leeuwarden and Hamburg. Tomorrow will be my last day in Leeuwarden. My dad is going to come in the evening to help me moving my ...
Windmills, Canals & Clogs
... it. After about 2 hours of slow progress in a head wind we found what we believe to be the smallest windmill in The Netherlands (approx 20ft). Never the less it was a breezy but sunny day and we enjoyed our sandwiches on th banks of a ...
Day 8
... at the bus station at 2 pm. From there we went to a kayak rental place and we kayaked through the canal system in Leeuwarden. After a nice afternoon of paddling we headed back down town. A few of us went out for some dinner, we went ...
Day 10
Went around town. Didn't do much watched a movie with some friends. Had a good time. Went to the ...
In Leuwarden to teach the Silverlight Tour
Spent the last week here in Leuwarden, The Netherlands and its been lovely. Its a small city with quaint streets and nice people. A big difference from the hustle and bustle of Amsterdam. English was not as easy to get and I feel like I am intruding ...
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