Bastion Hotel Leiden/Voorschoten

Travel Blogs from Leiden

Return from the East!

A travel blog entry by edandclaire

... This is not a missing person’s notice board as we first imagined, but a place where grandparents post details of their grandchildren in the hope of finding them a suitable husband or wife. I’m sure there’s a reality TV show in there somewhere…

After Chengdu we were due in Beijing to start the one and only organised tour of our whole trip – the 'Vodkatrain’ Trans Mongolian
express from Beijing to St ...

Wet, windy and achored for first time

A travel blog entry by issywiz

... After lunch the sun came out and so Isi made an easier way of quickly mounting and putting up the anchor ball using a spare flag staff that we have.

It rained very heavily and the wind kept changing direction and swinging us around, which gave us a chance to know if we were ok and had clearance on the other boats nearby.

We had a wonderful lazy afternoon watching children of all ages learning to sail. It rained first of all and ...

Holland Tulip farm weekend trip

A travel blog entry by cloris.long

... grill, and I had ribs and lamb steak. If there was more time I could have got a free second plate! Saturday – we go in the morning to the Leiden weekend market, which is a nice market by the river. It was gloomy in the morning while we were at the market, but the sun starting breaking through by the time we were in the tulips. There were rows and rows of them, but had we gone three weeks earlier we may have seen the tulip ...

Keukenhof - Day 5

A travel blog entry by sydandval

Much earlier start to the day and after breakfast and making lunch we take the train to Leiden (this is becoming very familiar by now!). Last night we became worried about the trip tomorrow as we would be packing up a possibly wet tent and carrying our big packs in a rush hour train into Leiden so we thought about spending the night in a hotel near the train station to miss one potentially difficult ...

A lost treasure of sentimental value

A travel blog entry by flyingbat

... But it was just sitting there as if to say "what took you so long?" To me that's unbelievable - to find a small ring in Amsterdam that I'd lost two days ago, in the dark.

I've put it aside for safe keeping until I have the time to get it resized. But I was very happy to get my claddagh ring back - a lost treasure, duly found. Has anything similar to this ever happened to you? If so, I'd like to hear your stories.
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