Du Passage Hotel Enkhuizen

Good Morning. I am having great difficulty with the computer in Holland. It is far from state of the art & I have difficulty in uploading photo. But I will try again. Yesterday was a good day agin the weather was warm and not a cloud in the sky. I went shopping in the old part pf Enhuizen which is more the 650 years old. It gives you a nice feeling walking around these very old ...

... pas. Dat is over één week! Tja, hij weet het ook niet. Misschien al oliepeilend verder rijden naar een volgende bestemming, daar een dealer zoeken die misschien eerder tijd heeft? Wij gaan koffiedrinken. Uiteindelijk besluiten we terug naar Amsterdam te gaan, het is maar iets meer dan twee uur rijden en hopelijk heeft A-point wel eerder tijd. En het is toch takkeweer, de verwachting is ook niet best, dus wat geeft het. Helaas A-point heeft ook pas maandag tijd, maar ze ...

... the g*me turned out to be tied so it w*s exciting *nd fun. Afterw*rds it w*s pretty l*te *nd we were *ll pretty drunk *nd you guys *ll know Genev* she p*yed for Bri*n her *nd I to go to this cr*zy 'Peep Show'...if you know wh*t I me*n....without being to explicit...it w*s wild....def. *nd *msterd*m experience...LOL. went hoem *nd cr*shed *fter w*lking through the red light district which is *n *bsolutel TRIP! D*y 2 Woke up in the hostel to the cr*zy dutch hostess ...

... and I got all these German medications from the lady working there. We arrived at our hostel and checked in, the owner here is crazy and a very funny man. We went into the city and saw the Jewish Museum and then Checkpoint Charlie, we didn't want to see too much because we planned a walking tour for today and knew we'd see all the sights. Came back and hung out with some people at the hostel before going to sleep.

... paths where only an occasional house was found there was nothing to do but keep walking and accepted our pitiful state. when we got to the cliffs it cost money to go up and we knew there would be nothing to see in the whipping wind and rain. So we briefly admired it from afar and ducked into a coffee shop for some hot tea. There we ate some stolen bread and took turns going to the bathroom to stand under the hand blower. A jolly good ...

The girls had a rest day whilst the boys went north to the picturesque town of Enkhuizen. Here we met up with Jan de Vires and his classically renovated wooden Dutch yacht. We learnt that yacht is a Dutch word ("jacht"). Matt and Vince were on their first-ever sailing trip, joined by Adrian. Originally called the Bree Horn, we ...

... into the apartment complex the girls were staying in (brilliant place!) and hit the town with da crew. Decided on a Gaudi tour. Had of course nothing to do with my almost bunny-boiler like obsession with the man and his art... Walk for bleeding ages (in heels- gasp!-). Thank heavens there's escalators to the Parc Guell. Had such a blast in there, everyone was in good form. I think the change of weather from Holland alone was enough to heighten our ...

... like a smaller version of the easter show minus a lot of stuff - think the woolworths food dome crossed with the horticulture pavillion!) But they had the most amazing tulips there - some called "mutants" which really did look mutated! Very bizarre - but i have never seen so many types in my life! What a lot of work....! But you can't go to holland without seeing the tulips i think!!! And we walked through the tulip bulbs - which you can buy to take home ...

Today is Oma's birthday, and tomorrow I am leaving for Sydney... ... My how time flies, I feel like i just left! But what fun i have had... Oma just opened her birthday presents. From our family we have: a blue tablecloth, and a tablecloth with a farm motif on it that i liked very much, a yellow and blue tea cosy and a small blue oriental flowered purse from me. She also got a big bunch of roses (40: peaches and cream!) from mum and dad that I ...

Today Jose took me to see Alkmaar, where her mother and stepfather live. We drove to her mother's place, where we had coffee and Alkmaar biscuits (which taste suspiciously similar to the Enkhuizen biscuits!) - then Jose and I rushed off to her dentist appointment. Jose has been visiting the same dentist in Alkmaar for a long time - initially I was curious as to why she drove so far to see the dentist! But we went back to Agaath and Peter's house ...