Welcome all my lovely readers. Amsterdam was the next city on our trans-Europe adventure and I was intrigued as to what I would find. I must admit, after travelling for such a long time my desire to experience novel things is starting to wear a little thin. Louise and I are already on a church and museum diet. My travel style is becoming truly z...

We went for one day only and I listened to him ***** the whole day because he didn't like the city. To make it worse, he had never actually been to Amsterdam before, he just hated it anyway. I wasn't even allowed to buy myself a space cake to make it better...and it was my birthday.

Hi everybody! Chris' sister Jeannine and her 7 year old daughter, Julia, visited us last week. Julia's birthday had been the week before and Jeannine's was on Monday, so it was sort of a birthday trip for them. Julia's favorite thing was the Cat Boat, which is only ˝ block from our house and has a lot of cats - most very friendly - that are wait...

Today I decided, on the spur of the moment, to go to Amsterdam. Jodi will just have to wait. So I boarded the train to Heidelberg, which connected to the train to Köln, which went right back through Mannheim again. It was a nice enough trip to Köln, where I had 30 mins to look at a very big gothic church right outside the station. Then on to Ams...