Bastion Deluxe Amstel Amsterdam

... Bikes have their own lanes and of course as a visitor, we have to get used to not only looking out for traffic but crossing the bike tracks safely.

We had a disturbed night with lots of noise outside our room at 3 am. This was followed by sirens, then people talking on walkie talkies- a guy in the room next door to us had become ill and there were ambulances outside our door. It must have been about 5 am before we got back to sleep. Katelyn slept through the whole thing.

... Probably 60% were going for the Cats and 40% for the Saints. We were going for the Saints just because we felt they deserved it after being without a premiership for over 40 years.

By 8am we were both feeling a bit tipsy! I think being tired didn’t help. There was only one thing for it – meat pie and chips! It was 10 euro but it was so worth it!! One guy even came up to me and asked me if it was worth the 10 euro, I smiled, wiped the sauce from my mouth and ...

... Schipol around 4pm..we did some washing and then got ready to go out for a free night. No dinner included or planned and no sightseeing planned..and technically no bus included. Luckily Gennaro donated his time and Calvin paid for the kilometres for us to get into town. Dan and I got off and decided to go to Anne Franks house. It was a 20 min walk and we only had a 5-10min queue to get in. The house took around 1 hour to see it all, it was interactive with video, artifacts and a ...

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Tomorrow we are up bright and early (aka 6:00 a.m.) to catch the first flight of two that will land us in Shannon, Ireland. From there, it’s off to the North in our own vehicle that we hope is smarter than a SmartCar. Internet options are, as always, unknown in the days ahead, but we will try to update as we can without cutting into vacation time. Until next time, Tot ziens. (Dutch for “goodbye.”)

... stage, this is not a dream...am I awake, is this a dream....pinching myself, yes, I am here. Wow! On August 4, 1944, the Secret Annex is raided by a SS Sergeant and Dutch Nazi's. Everyone was arrested and sent to Auschwitz on the 3rd of September. Anne and her sister died in March 1945, just weeks before the camp they were in was liberated. Only Otto Frank survived the camps.

... were a lot of people around. I had the impression that the vast majority of people were tourists like myself, more interested in seeing what goes on rather than purchasing anything. There are also lots of places with live sex shows and the advertising material leaves you in little doubt about what you would see. The other popular type of establishment was the classic "sex shop" selling all sorts of aids and printed material. Being on my own I wasn't ...

... dammed the Amstel. Service was slow, and I gave up on ordering dinner and instead walked back to Dam Square. I found a pizzaria where I was shown to a small table near the back. A group of four college age boys were just over my left shoulder and they clearly thought that I could not speak English! OMG the things they discussed, as young men, thinking they had the privacy of their native tongue. I heard sexcapades, drinking stories, who they thought was a jerk among ...

... I will travel from my hometown of Scheveningen,The Hague in The Netherlands to the first destination. I will not do the spectacular travelling, I leave that to my fellow travellers, so the first destination I choose will be Delft. So I invite you now: If you want to take part of this crazy journey, and take this it over in Delft to do the next stage, please react to this blog post! Letīs make Travel 2.0 happen! The first user generated world tour!

... a piece of holy bread that was vomited up by a man dying survived three fires before being thrown into a canal), the white radical people who wanted to give everyone free bikes (which then got stolen and sold by another country), the Jewish history and how they organsied a strike againt the Nazi's in WWII, the law and rules surrounding prostitution (they have unions and wages and such) and cannabis (not actually legal and there are limits on how much you can carry) and how ...

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