Bilderberg Oranje Hotel 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 ...

... 8217;s of us and waving at and every bridge we got to she was there again with her camera.  It was very funny.  After we got off the boat everybody of course had to have an icecream and then we went to Alie and Thewis house.  We sat outside in their garden, the weather had improved to a sunny day and the wind had dropped.  Thewis was home as well and it was great to see him I hadn’t seen him since I left Holland ...

Some of Alice's Diary Notes for Harlingen
" ..................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.

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.

Thanks for the emails and messages

... and went to bed very excited because we knew when we woke up in the morning they would have their new baby.

TUESDAY – LEKKUM – 30.6.09

Isn’t modern technology a wonderful thing.  We woke about 6.30am and we had the message with all the details and photo’s on our computer.  How exciting!!!!  Summer Ruby has arrived in the world and both her and Melissa are fine.  We were so excited that ...

... we finally got to Burdaard, we saw the little canal through the middle of town, waved to the webcam on the Burdaard website, and found a little place to eat dinner. While we were at dinner Mom asked the waitress if there would be a place she could get Auke Kingma's book (he wrote about the history of the houses in Burdaard), and one was just a man at home. Mom called him and he volunteered to bring the book to the ...

... 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!!!

Today we met at the bus station at 2 pm. From there we went to a kayak rental place and we kayaked through the canal system in Leeuwarden. After a nice afternoon of paddling we headed back down town. A few of us went out for some dinner, we went to Pompeii Pizzeria. It was a nice restaurant but a little ...

... went to dinner. After dinner Me and Paul The Canadian headed back to Burmania where we live. We decided to head to the city center for the concert that was going on. So Paul and I and two German girls that we live with went to the concert. This happened to be an orchestra concert that was a Trans-Siberian want to be orchestra. They were actually pretty good and it was fun to see. We then went to a pub for a drink and then went back to Burmania.

... From here it was to Den Haag where we splashed out on a camp site and gave Wattie a much needed clean and chilled out in the sun. Just out of Den Haag there is a miniature version of The Netherlands, 'Madurodam'. The detail was quite amazing and it means we saw every building that was important... only on a smaller scale! After a stroll on the beach... we headed north to see the famous Holland flood controls. And across to the German boarder ...