Campanile Hotel Delft

... hours with my host Nai and the italian guy he's also hosting (which I'm not a fan of). Nai is super nice but the Italian guy is a bit weird. It's all good, just not a fan..

Tomorrow afternoon I should be heading into Amsterdam.. Hopefully it won't be raining quite so much there.

... room, which was perhaps the largest hotel room I had ever
stayed in. The hotel was a former canal house converted to hotel
use, and our room was probably 30x30 feet with an outdoor patio with
many chairs and tables. A very nice relaxing place. We headed back
out for dinner and found a cafe on a side street off the square and
had a very nice meal and then headed back to the room. It did not
get dark in Delft until about 11:00 pm, although we were ...

... down. Jen, Ryan, Mom, Kathryne, Emily, Berend, and I climbed the whole way up. It was a great view, and we took lots of pictures. After the Church, we went to a café where most of us had pannekuken. We had a lot of time to talk with them, which was really nice. After lunch we did a little bit of souvenir shopping then said our goodbyes. They had a time limit on where their car was parked, and we had a train to catch.

... dinner we went to a classic italian pizzeria where the waiter was really very nice to us and helped us with everything. The pizza's were in fact some of the best we've ever had. Its nice that our appetite's have now returned to us and our diets are improving. After dinner we stopped into a cafe for a bit then walked home where we relaxed until we fell asleep. This morning, Hans, the B&B owner, made breakfast for everyone (he does every morning ...

... city, chocolate, plazas, beer, cheese and canals galore... but you can actually peacefully stroll along them. And because of the schooling system in the Netherlands, English is widely spoken. We took a 50 min Snelltrein from Amsterdam on our second day in the Netherlands to tour, eat and take some quirky photos.

... from the Tribunal who'd come to celebrate the guilty verdict delivered against the Arroyo regime and to eat some Filipino food, hear some music and be entertained and informed by the speakers, the guerrilla theatre troupe and other performers invited by Jun, who also played guitar, led the band of youthful musicians centered on his own family, and stage managed the show. My own contribution to the festivities, a short set of poems that ended with ...

October 27 Bearing in mind yesterday we went to bed at 4:30 a.m, today we logically wake up at midday and we go to eat some tasty broodjes (sandwiches) in a café close to my friend's house. Sorry but I can't remember the café's name but it's located right on the main street of the town, very close to the windmill and the lagoon. Those broodjes are excellent! you can choose between lots of ingredients and even ...

Merry Christmas! We are happy to report that the Rebman's arrived safe and sound this morning at 7:00 a.m. It was so nice to celebrate Christmas as a family. This Christmas will officially go down in history as "The LONGEST Christmas Ever!" Nate and I woke up at 5:30 am to meet them at the airport, but we can't complain because my family had been up since 10:00 pm (Holland time) the night before as they were not able to sleep on the plane. We arrived back at our ...

... The
designs are painted in black paint, and the firing process burns off the carbon
dots, and changes the black paint to the familiar Delft blue colour. If you wish to purchase a
hand-painted souvenir, take plenty of money, as it is very expensive.

The Netherlands’
vast legacy of decoration, both on earthenware and wood is a ...

... don't have anything else to do on a Saturday morning...just like us. Anyways, as we took our spot in line, a woman started talking to us. She told me how many bougoise Indonesians from Princess Juliana's generation took the name "Juliana" and the birthday of April 30 (Juliana's b-day). I thought that was kinda interesting. As we waited in line, there were Boy Scouts handing out free hot chocolate. They were pretty cute. Scout leaders would be wearing backpacks ...