Eurohotel 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 ...

... I was eighteen.  We had dinner and then Japie called in, another brother of Christien.  I had seen Japie three years ago and it is at times like these we miss Gurrie.  We sat and talked until 10.30pm and decided it was time to go home.  We are so fortunate and really enjoying our time in Leeuwarden with my family but tomorrow we have the big job of trying to organize the cases and repacking everything for our big trip home."

... Terschelling West etc.  Had some lunch(typically dutch "warm sandwiches" at the seaside of course and then walked around looking at everything.  At 6pm we arrived back home after a long and emotional day and cooked dinner.  We had potatoes with raw witlof just like mum used to make and a piece of steak.  Yum, Yum.  The weather is still fine not cold now we will see what tomorrow brings."

The trip was for Alice to help Pieti buy a new washing machine so we took the opportunity to have a look around<br><br> A trip of about 15km from Lekkum took us to Dokkum which is a dutch fortified town in the municipality of Dongeradeel in the province of Friesland. Not very big about 15,000 people.<br><br>This town (city) is also one of the eleven cities that form the 200km skating race which can only happen if all the course is frozen over. Averages about once every ...

... br><br>FRIDAY &#8211; LEKKUM &#8211; 3.7.09<br><br>It was very hot today.  The temperature got to 32C and the humidity into the 90&#8217;s so it felt more like 40C.  Beautiful day.  Pieti&#8217;s washing machine got delivered and we had a little shopping to do for the bar-b-q and for the rest sat in the back yard under the trees.  We didn&#8217;t have much to do because Richard prepared all the meat and ...

... wife live in the house that was my great-great-great grandpa's home and bakery (Melle Toppen) before he came to the US. It was fun to see the rooms where they slept and the bricks from the ovens. After leaving the Jonkmans' house, we drove around a few small towns where our ancestors came from, such as Bierum and Losdorp. Our car was leading, and as I was in the front seat, I got the job of navigator- not an easy job! We ...

Eindelijk gaat het gebeuren, het Pieterpad. Al jaren hebben wij het erover gehad en nu er mooi weer is gaan we op weg. We starten in Pieterburen. Door velen ons aangeraden om de Noord-Zuid route te doen. Vrijdag gaan wij van start, natuurlijk met Bambi en zaterdag lopen wij de eerste route van Pieterburen naar Winsum. 10 kilometer om lekker in te komen. Op zondag lopen wij van Winsum naar Groningen. Voorbereidingen zijn heel goed gegaan, route ...

... expensive. After dinner we wandered around town for a while. At 1030pm we met up down town for the Pub Crawl. We just went from pub to pub having a few drinks at each, then on to the next. One of the pubs was even having a Christmas Party. So I got to celebrate Christmas in August. Presents= Free Drinks.

Well so I arrived at the Amsterdam Ariport around 8ish in the morning. It was after long flight. (So just to let you know when you get a seat in the emergency exit row take the middle or aisle seat. You get more leg room. The seat by the door gets shafted when you sit there. That is because the door sticks in a good distance and cut the ...

... story: I'm not sure who brought Wattie up, but she is a bit confused about what exactly she is... you all know about the tram incident... well this time she thought she was a bike!! The Netherlands is full of bikes, we felt quite unnumbered in a car... we pulled into a petrol station and all the pumps were being used so Rod decided to turn round and use the other side, not realizing when we thumped down the curb that it was a cycle lane! Only ...