Just wanted this on the map. 3 hour layover in Amsterdam. Not enough time to catch the train into the city. The custom agent asked why I spoke my 10 words of emergency Dutch. I told him that when traveling to another country, you should at least know how to say hello, please and thank you...even in France. he liked that.

Hi all...long time no chat. Dublin was impossible to find a comp. s o here i am down the street from central station. i left london for dublin...and wouldn't ya know it , i MISSED MY PLANE!!! damned Tube. so, so much for a really cheap flight...got expensive real quick. but got to dublin that AM anyway...and then thought "why am i here??" it tur...

After spending a day or two in Amsterdam, we have concluded that it is definitely a unique city. It has some very pretty areas with canals and boutiques, but it also has some pretty dirty areas as well. We were amazed at the number of coffee shops in the city (at least two or three per street), however, people were not drinking much coffee in th...

I am going on a seven months sabbatical leave that I have created by saving leave days for 12 years at my work for the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (see http://www.irc.nl. I am going to Bangladesh as I have lived there for quite a while. I have been back several times, because part of my heart lies there. I'll be based in Dhaka ...