Fletcher Hotel Restaurant - Heidehof Heerenveen

From Alice's Diary<br>"WEDNESDAY &#8211; LEEUWARDEN / GROUW &#8211; 08.07.09<br> 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 just to organize our cases ready for the big trip home. Christien and I went to the supermarket to get a few things and at 12.30pm Fenna arrived. After eating a ...

From Alice's diary,<br>"TUESDAY &#8211; LEEUWARDEN &#8211; 07.07.09<br> 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 typical Dutch day.  Christien and I went through all the old family photo's we had bought with us on my computer and she chose quite a few.  After we accomplished that we ...

Some of Alice's Diary Notes for Harlingen<br>" ..................We didn't realise how much time we had spend at the cemetery (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 islands of ...

The trip was for Alice to help Pieti buy a new washing machine so we took the opportunity to have a look around<br><br> A trip 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.<br><br>This town (city) is also one of the eleven cities that form the 200km skating race which can only happen if all the course is frozen over. Averages about once every ...

... catching up to do.  Got all our washing organized and you wouldn&#8217;t believe it the washing machine broke down.  There wasn&#8217;t much we could do about that so we just left it.  A friend of Pieti&#8217;s called in and took my washing home and returned it in the afternoon.  We were laughing because we had to hang it on the line and after sitting in the backyard all day it was quite a big job. ..............  Spoke to Luke and ...

This is Zwolle, my new home. I wanted to share a few pictures of the town with you guys and show you how pretty it is. The city is beautiful- plenty of good architecture and flowers everywhere. I love the brickwork on some of these buildings.

... wash hanging on the line, animals in the field, a working old mill, fish being smoked, nets being made, carpenter work being done, lunch being cooked, etc. It was an absolutley fascinating and delightful day. At one of the homes one of the ladies even served us coffee and a biscuit (she told Hans we were a little too early for lunch or, I suppose, that would have been an option). I even ate smoked eel (tasty) and pictures ...

... of things that I knew other people would like so I bought them as presents - and as I was looking around I found this beautiful painting which I fell in love with. Next thing I know we're being invited into this ladies house for a cup of coffee! We go in and meet her husband and her 20 year old cat and she starts serving us all these fantastic little Dutch treats and really good cups of coffee. We were chatting away with the lady and her husband - Olga and Walter for ages - us ...

... a Fan Museum (not the ceiling kind) while I went for a wander and wrote some postcards. We stayed the night at Iona's and had the chance to catch up with Moira who's staying there at the moment. I flew into Amsterdam yesterday morning and then jumped onto a train to Heerenveen straight away. The train took two hours so I got to see a fair bit of the country side - which looks like normal country side - no tulips and no Heidi ...

(Originally published at http://www.troysgonewalkabout.com)<br>< br>I was due to fly out of Amsterdam in the evening so our hope was to head west to the island of Texel, then south to Den Helder and onto Amsterdam, thus completing a whole anti-clockwise circuit of the country. After listening to our plan and doing his best to comply by looking at many different train and bus combinations, the man at the train station ...