Bastion Hotel Bussum Zuid

... time and almost fell into one of the canals on more than one occasion. And I didn't even sample any of the local delicacies (illegal elsewhere)! Although it was summer, the weather was gloomy and cold and actually (no joke) worse than in Seattle, when I left.

... that they got lost on the way from their hostel and were really late.)  So around 11, we called it quits and started to head back.  We got waffles and ice cream to make ourselves feel better.  Delicious!!! We wound up going to a really cool jazz club later that night and we had a lot of fun just chilling out there after our long day. We woke up early on Sunday too in order to go to the Van Gogh Museum.  It was really incredible.  I could ...

... merveille, j'ai fais une visite guidee dans le vieux et dans le red light district assez repute. Jai visite la maison d'Anne Frank et le musee d'histoire.....Mais jai surtout deambule a velo un peu partout dans la ville et jai aussi fais un fameux tour de bateau avec de la pizza et de la biere =) prochaine destination: Nantes dsl pour les photos c'est trop complique -xx-

So I have finally decided to keep everyone up to date with my travels... I have had a really great couple of weeks so far. On the way over we had a 12hr stop over in Brunei which was pretty cool.. did a little tour of the capital and the water village there. Arrived in London and had 5 days of sightseeing, museums, markets, cornish pasties and drinking Fosters. The London marathon happened to be on so we watched a bit of that in the rain. Then we took an overnight bus ...

... what do we walk into? the red light district. porn shops galore. i was all about going in those, but vicki didn't want to. i didn't want to leave her all alone on the street corner, what would people think? back at the airport, we ate at an overpriced cafe (well it is synonomous with airport). we still had a little time to kill, so i decided to try to sleep (by now, we had been up for about 28 hours, not including itty bitty cat naps ...

Saying good bye to the spice of India and heading north and west. It felt like going home because I knew that Mike and Sophi would be there. What a contrast! quiet cold spitting rain green grass grey skies red bricks white geese orange tile roofs black wool coats old legs, young legs fuzzy tights legs, peddling bicycles st nikolaus and black peter in every shop window heels click agains time worn ...

... sort of deep-fried meat paste, much better than I'm making it out to be. I'm also not spelling them properly - apologies. The afternoon turned to shopping - we were looking for antique Dutch tiles to take back with us, with varying degrees of success, when we stumbled across a Tulip Museum (imagine that). Had a lovely conversation with the man running the counter began with where we're from ("Oh, Seattle - we don't like you guys from Washington, because you can grow ...

... to be a benefit of United Business Class travel to receive a pass to the Sheraton Schiphol Hotel for a shower and breakfast. That ended in 2003 I think. I had been sent an email informing me of an arrivals welcome perk for being booked for our hotel stay at the Starwood sister hotel, The Pulitzer in Amsterdam. We were offered the use of the showers and gym at the Sheraton Schiphol. We picked up our bags and tossed them on a ...

... September 29, 2006 One of the weirdest episodes in American history is engagingly chronicled in "The U.S. vs. John Lennon," David Leaf and John Scheinfeld's revelatory documentary about the American government's surveillance of the former Beatle in the 1970s. And readers tempted to write that episode off as yet another paranoid fantasy of The Left should take heed: "The U.S. vs. John Lennon" includes the firsthand testimony of the spies themselves, from apostate FBI agents ...

Dag! Após 9 meses viajando, enfim, cheguei aos países-baixos, mais conhecido (e erronemente) como Holanda. Qual a imagem que vem a cabeca ? Moinhos, diques, canais, bicicleta, queijo, tulipas, historia, arte e pra mim, familia. O pouco tempo que estou aqui fez com que eu tenha uma imagem muito positiva do país, onde tudo funciona, possui a segunda menor taxa de desemprego da Europa e maior crescimento do continente, liberdade pessoal, de expressao entre outras ...