China Hotel Holland 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.

... who would not give out Roger’s personal information. He would email him to contact me.

We eventually found a bar and a wi-fi spot and checked our emails. I had mailed a postcard to Roger’s father asking him to email us. I was hoping there was an email from him. No luck.

Len had found a tourist office next to the bar. They offered 15 minutes free internet ...

... me - then ahead of me, I saw a policewoman stopping people walking the way I had just come - I asked her what was going on, and apparently someone had been stabbed about an hour ago! I was really shocked - I thought Holland was supposed to be really safe!??! Anyway, they obviously don't tolerate this kind of thing at all, as apparently this was them already doing a reconstruction! How fast?! Plus, so many of the sideroads were sealed ...

Hi guys, On Sunday, Petra and I drove to Delft to meet up with my long lost mate Shane Yates, his son Samuel and his brother Daniel. We had a fantastic day of sampling Belgian beers in the local pubs, checking out a Jazz/Funk band in a pub that was 500yrs old and playing pool over a couple of quiet Jack Daniels. Delft is a beautiful ...

Salut, Le depart etait un peu lent ce matin. De la pluie et tout mon stock mouillee a ralenti mon départ de Delft. Quels sont les moments forts de cette belle journee? Hmmmmm....allons voir...Premierement, les magnifiques dunes tout le long de l'ocean. C'est magnifique! (voir les photos). Aussi, encore un vent de dos encore assez fort....ca roule en simonac mes amis! La piste de course à Zandvoort ...

... on one, the drinkers (Matt, Vince, Walter and the male Rotarians), on the other, the lolly eaters (Marnie, Adrian and the female Rotarians). Our first stop was the Eenhoorn Molen (the Unicorn Windmill), a 400 year old windmill used as a saw mill to chop wood. At its peak, there were 200 of these mills around Holland. Now there are just 5 ...

... had shown to us. We also said we could not go to sleep until we had unpacked a suitcase. Right at 9 PM, we both could barely keep our eyes open because of the jetlag and finally decided it was okay to go to sleep!!! We head off to Vrije University tomorrow to get Jonathan into his office and to meet the people he will be working with! Exciting!!! (Mom and Yvette, I've posted some pics of our apartment for you!)

... So I got a bit frustrated and bored, wading through the crummy stuff to find the good stuff. But the weather was beautiful, the town WAS quaint (kinda like a dwarf Amsterdam: the town was smaller, the canals smaller, the buildings smaller....) and we had a nice day. Headed back to Amsterdam on the train around 6 p.m. and ate dinner at the Pancake Bakery, where we had unremarkable dinner pancakes and out of this world cinnamon poffertjes (little mini pancakes) with poached pears.

Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to be followed? To know that there are people watching your every move? Yeah, well, we know what feels like now... Today we decided to visit The Hague. This is home to all of the important government buildings in the country and also The International Criminal Court. Our first stop was The American Embassy. We only knew where it was located because Nate received a letter from the ...

... it for now. Julie's parents are coming on Sunday. We'll be in town for a few nights and then will head to Paris on Wednesday for 6 days. It should be a real nice trip. Hope all is well with everyone and in case we don't hear from you, have a great Passover and Easter. -Stephen ============================== As always, feel free to pass this on to anyone you think might enjoy reading my ramblings. Also, you can either subscribe or unsubscribe at any time at the top of the page.