Bastion Leeuwarden

... bit of lunch we all hopped into the car and drove to Grouw . This is a little place 15 kilometers out of Leeuwarden and where the family including Tiny used to go with their boats. Tiny used to sleep in the hotel and her room was permanently booked looking out to where the rest of the family were on the boat. In the morning she would open her window and groan good morning and when they all shouted back good ...

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 ...

... years or so. They are very proud of this as there are many much larger places close by that maybe called cities but have missed out on being included.<br><br>One of the things that is rather difficult to get used to is the vision of a sailing boat seemingly sitting in the middle of a paddock hidden somewhat by the farmers crops but moving along at a steady pace. More so in Friesland than other parts of Holland do you see this.<br><br>Thanks for the emails and messages

... 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 ...

Hey...this is the last entry by me (Emily) for awhile- Alecia and Kathryne will be adding the next few days! Tuesday morning we woke up way too early and got on a 6:24 train to Zwolle, Netherlands. Most of us slept during part of the train ride (we rode in segments and had to transfer a couple of times) because the train ride was so early in the morning. We had rented a car to pick up in Zwolle, but we had a hard time trying ...

... campings erbij, waar eet je en hoe reis je. Het is heel luxe, wij gaan met 2 auto's, ook dit is aangeraden. 2 weken geleden een nieuwe tent gekocht, dus het kan zijn dat hij de eerste tijd op de foto er nog niet helemaal netjes erbij staat. In de meivakantie lopen wij tot Hardenberg en hebben regelmatig een rustdagje (al dan niet verplicht), dit ook omdat Bambi toch een dagje ouder wordt en wij natuurlijk ook. Al met al, wij hebben er zin in!!!

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 knew where I was supposed to be for classes. By the time I was in office #6 which was the deans office, I finally found out where I was supposed to ...

... the students were split in to group with a buddy to show us around. So my group consisted of the buddy Mathis (German), Paul (the Canadian), and yours truly. So we started our little tour of the area and since we couldn't sign up for a bank account or our residence permit we just decided to go around town. We went to a coffee shop to get a glass of coffee. But unfortunately they stopped serving coffee at 1030 am and it was 11am. So we just ...

... us! It was raining and quite dull, we got stuck in a huge traffic jam and weren't in the best mood so decided to pull over and call it a day. From here it did get better as we got to the mainland and headed for Rotterdam, we checked out a thing called the Euromast. Its 185metres tall with 2 viewing platforms and a rotating glass elevator at the top, we got quite a view! In Den Bosch we visited St Janskathedral, which took 214 years to complete ...