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Leiden Slideshow
Leiden
Travel Blogs from Leiden, Netherlands
Looking for a spanish girl in Holland
... it just takes 20 minutes by train to arrive to Leiden, the student city where our friend is living. She's studying Law at Leiden's University and she's sharing a flat with some italian and spanish students. When we arrive she takes us to have lunch to a ...
Its coming closer and closer!!
Hy Everyone, Whell the days that i have to wait for it i can count finally on 2 hands!! :) I can start by preparing the first things like checking the important papers and the most important stuff i will bring with me. Because i will be allowed to take a ...
Committing to the final leg
Day -5 Man, booking flights around Christmas is pricey. £935 LHR-PER-SIN-LHR... If only there was such a thing as a cheap flight from South America to ...
Jabs
Day: -20 Who would have thought that a trip to South America would result in the need for almost every vaccination you can have, including Rabies! Unfortunately neither Britt nor I could find our 'yellow books', but some photocopies I found saved me ...
Opening Ceremony of Maori Boathouse
... Haan, alderman of culture in Leiden, Steven Engelsman, director of the Volkenkunde Museum, the New Zealand Ambassador to the Netherlands, George Troup, Robert Gabel from Toi Maori and chairman of the Nga Waka Federation, Wena Tait, Toi Maori ...
Day Three
... resource. On leaving the Park we returned to the bus, which took us to Amsterdam Sud, where we caught the first a train to Leiden, and then a second train to Den Haag. On getting off the train, we caught the next train to Den Haag where we ...
Keukenhof - Day 5
... the trip tomorrow as we would be packing up a possibly wet tent and carrying our big packs in a rush hour train into Leiden so we thought about spending the night in a hotel near the train station to miss one potentially difficult section where we had ...
And so it ends here ...
... and only gone to Amsterdam, as with any country I suppose, there is so much more to see here; The Hague, Haarlem, Delft, Leiden and I hear Maastricht and Utrecht are worth visiting, etc. I have learnt a lot about the culture and the diversity of the ...
The excitement builds!
So the tickets are booked and after what seems an eternity another trip to India looms Nearly two years will have passed since my wife and I were last in India, So as we approach another landmark in killing time namely Christmas, the excitement ...
Last dinner and drinks with frends
Last night i got to meetup with a small group of good friends to go for a last dinner and drinks in a bar/restaurant in Leiden. I got to meetup with Thomas and Anna at the front of central station of Leiden. After that whe got to go to the restaurant ...
getting ready
Welcome to my new website! Here I will writhe down my adventures and show you my pictures. I will post something when I think you should all know about it! And try to keep you up to date will I'm in Canada! I will fly to Toronto on the 6th of May, from ...
Barges, bikes and sore bums
Pouring rain today and we are docked in Leiden overnight so a good chance to find an internet cafe and catch up. We have been biking quite a bit up until now (min. 30 km per day)! Sore butts are the norm. Have seen some fantastic scenery - everything ...
Project Overload & Leiden Celebrations!
Leiden was once held under seige by the Spanish many centuries ago; and ever since the city has celebrated its freedom with the most monumental, in fact properly mental, street party that stretches over an entire weekend. If you have been, you will know ...
Hallo Nederland!
... out the trains out here, they're brilliant, double decker and super efficient. I got from touch down in Amsterdam to my hotel, in Leiden, in one hour! Start work in AMREF tomorrow, I'm double nervous but also can't wait to meet the team. I did a ...
Lost
... on the steps of the Ridder Zaal (the seat of the Dutch Parliament) in the Hague. Sue then travelled by train into Leiden. She says she knows better than to ride in the rain. With the complications of the morning (see above) we were running ...
KUEKENHOF DAY
THIS IS OUR DAY AT KUEKENHOF GARDENS History Where Keukenhof is situated now, was a hunting area in the 15th century. Herbs for the kitchen of the castle of Jacoba van Beieren were also collected here; hence the name Keukenhof. The current park ...
One month in! - AMREF Fundraising teams
This week momentum on the project is picking up. On Friday I joined the Comms & Fundraising Conference call which is hosted by the Directors of Communications and Fundraising based in Nairobi and seems to currently be used as a forum ...
My First Ever Published Article- the whole process
... a slightly more interesting angle to it and the editor went for it. I had heard months ago that the Volkenkunde Museum in Leiden were going to be doing an exhibition about the Maoris from New Zealand and that the Maoris would be making two wakas ...
Leiden and its dilemas!
... , tambem explorei mais o centro da cidade,vi um moinho de vento enorme que marca a langegracht! parei numa Mc Donalds pra almoçar e depois andei ate o Dijk e depois fui pra Haia. Não tem muito oque fazer em leiden, so andar tirar umas fotos e ...
Last Night in Leiden
We all arrived at the same time at the Holiday Inn in Leiden, a very pleasant hotel about 20 mins walk from the town centre. After checking in, we wandered back into town and found a lovely wee traditional Dutch pub, De Vergulde Kruik, where we spent a ...
Windmills
... greenery. Also saw a building marked as where Rembrandt was born but I assume it was not the building that stood there today. Leiden is also where the Pilgrims stayed before they made their voyage to the new world (Mike reminded us). We went looking ...
Nomadic Reprod've Health & female genital cutting
Had a wonderful opportunity to meet the people working in Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia on programmes to educate the nomadic youth on reproductive health, a programme on prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV and advice on the dangers of female ...
Smells like cheese
... doner cravings. haha. well the next day/days consisted of Liz and I finding our way around/getting lost and more mini tours of Leiden provided by Dylan. Oh I forgot to tell the details of my room/the building.. well to kick things off the building is an ...
Leiden
Tonight is my last night in Leiden. It has been really fun to spend over a week in a university town in The Netherlands. I met a lot of great people and learned about a new town that's off of the normal tourist path. Tonight: drinks with friends: Mark, ...
Back to Neths
... a couple more hours it turned up, to my absolute joy. However there were maintenance works on the train tracks from Amsterdam to Leiden so I had to change to a bus to get back. Lady luck was smiling eventually though as an extremely kind Dutch couple ...
Verwelkom naar Nederland
... of Leiden looking for second hand shops that were open or hand bikes with front brakes! My friends and I travelled out of Leiden, through Leiderdorp and then found a lake with a windmill and sat and ate our picnic of cheese, baguettes, pineapple and ...
Amsterdam
... to go home due to Pete's work, and we're so lucky we've been able to stay away for as long as we have. We leave The Netherlands on Thursday, and will then spend a couple of days in Belguim before leaving for the UK on Sunday, to spend a couple of days in ...
Night sighting in Leiden
... nice and I could listen to great stories. His house was really great a three floors old building with a nie view just outside Leiden. Later we went to walk Leiden by night and I had a whole hgistory explanation and saw really everything. The city was ...