Best Western Grand Hotel Frans Hals Haarlem

... Caught the train - no problems and crashed for a couple of hours at the hotel before I went exploring. The town is so very, very dutch. There are high -tech windmills side-by-side with the old style ones. Fields full of crops that are just being harvested and sheep. Lots of sheep.<br><br>Long, horrible flight. Lots of turbulance on the 777 (see, I checked<br>for you ...

... anecdotes, but a cool day nontheless. After blogging in the morning I brought Heidi her coffee and announced that I would be spending part of the day trying to track down some phone place to try to help me get my BB working. ... ah - for those of you now thinking "what about your 'perfect''vacation and all that 'good fortune(?!)' - read on eagerly... Heidi informed me, rather gently I must say, that my BB repair plan was nixed and I'd be doing whatever ...

... course scaringthe living **** outta me.. IT WAS ADAM!!!!!!!!!!! adam fro mteh pub crawl in madrid!!! aaah! what a shock, i hugged him and wouldnt let go, i was mostly tryingto get over my heart attack but , adam! so i ditched my new friends and went with adam and his friends from his hostel and showed them around cause they were new, lol. we went to a bar called the grasshopper and had a drink. then whe nthe place closed adam walked me all the way back to my hostel, what a gentleman!

... Now I know there is no "us" in any way. Recently we were on the phone for a long time as usual, but his true feelings were not for me to hear anymore. At the same time being bluntly open about things that make my heart cry quietly. Things changed these last 2 months from loving/close/true feelings to general/friendly/distant. Was it just me having false expectations, hanging on to things that were not really there in the first place? Maybe answers will come one day ...

... Marihuana Hemp Museum in the Red Light District (basically lots of marijuana growing in their basement), hung out at several bars/cafes, went to one of the larger squares in Amsterdam (Dam Square). This is one of those grand public areas, lots of large buildings and monuments that come to mind when thinking of the grand places in Europe. There were lots of people milling about, street performers and more public/open-air urinals. Neil finally ...

... park which reminded me of Kakadu but we had to pay 100kunas($25) to get in and you couldnt even swim at any of the waterfalls or lakes, felt very ripped off! Kakadu is alot better in my opinion. That night we went into Karlovac( which is where national beer Karlovachco is made) to the beerfest. I didnt think that I would enjoy it but I had a ball and got very drunk. We started of drinking beer as you do but then switched to Yagermiester ...

... people, children, mothers, fathers, sons and daughters are living in the here and now with me right now in the world and suffering just as much by mans hands. When will my eyes be opened with compassion to them? What do l want my souviner of my life to be to the world? Just a couple of creative photos taken of the world? Or a life that made a difference to those and the world around her? Thank you for opening my eyes Amsterdam- thank you for touching my soul with ...

... coached her along as to how it should be served. In turn, she kept filling up Alli's glass of coffee absinthe for free whenever she filled her own. After about an hour, we were all feeling pretty good. The girls discussed weddings, and a fellow New Yorker who was studying international law in Holland sat down next to us and offered to share his joint. Maybe because we're always coached on how to answer that question with public service announcements and after-school specials, I always ...

October 29 Some friends told us that Haarlem was a very beautiful town so today we take the train and in about 25 minutes we're in lovely Haarlem. The good thing of the Netherlands is that it's so small that you can arrive to all destinations in a few minutes by train, in addition public transport is excellent; clean, punctual, agreeable and reasonable priced (especially if you've got your student card). We ...

... organ each was an impressive monument to a faith in which I have none. Why do I visit them? Because they are there! ] We continued our walk around the streets and along the canal finding by chance the red light district. Unlike Amsterdam, to go window shopping here you had to pay a fee and go through a turnstile. In other words you had to be a serious shopper(!) to enter this enclosed street of *****s. The oddest thing about this hookerhuis was that next door was ...