Eurohotel Leeuwarden

... put her hands over her ears and say, not so loud, not so loud. Great memories. The pub where they used to drink and the bar stools were only for them even when they crossed the road to buy some salted herring. We sat on the terrace at the Harbour having a drink and watched this poor buggar trying to moor his boat and cheers and laughter went up when he fell into the water trying to get the rope around the pole.

... 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

 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.

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 ...

... whole house was awake and everybody was drinking coffee at 7am.  After the early start we did settle down and Pieti’s daughter Afke called in for coffee after she dropped the kids off at school.  Little Joey 5 months old is gorgeous.  We all went for a walk through Lekkum and Snakkeburen where my grandparents lived and my mother grew up.  Mac enjoyed it very much and the weather was overcast so it was a lovely day to go for a ...

... so finally she has a copy (she's wanted one for awhile). After dinner, we shared a piece of yummy strawberry cake, then walked around the town a little to see some of the houses our ancestors where our ancestors used to live. It was starting to get late before we had even left Burdaard, and we still had to drive to Amsterdam, drop off the car, and get to our hotel. We drove over the Afsletdijk on the way there, which is very ...

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 ...