Golden Tulip Oosterhout

... Fernando in Peru !! I am SO happy!<br>I will be there from December 12th until 30th and spend New Years Eve in Den Haag. <br><br>So many exciting things are going to happen, hehe... and please come and visit me in Dublin, you are all very welcome!<br><br>Big Hugs,<br><br>Jo x<br>

I've been here so many times &amp; I never take pictures... so I decided to remedy that this time. Dordrecht is one of the most picturesque towns I've ever seen, &amp; I'm lucky to have the opportunity to stop there often on my way to Africa to visit my good friend Colette.<br>

The main reason I had decided to come to Holland in March was to celebrate my Tante Welmoed's 80th birthday with her. My cousin Judith did pretty much all of the planning and it was a fabulous party! <br><br>The guest began arriving at about noon and included friends of Welmoed's as well as lots of family. Of course Welmoed ...

... zijn we dan ruim op tijd voor onze vlucht van 17.20u. We komen vrijdagochtend aan om 10u (lokale tijd) en dan gaat het grote avontuur beginnen!!! Ik heb een hotel geboekt voor de eerste paar nachten maar verder staat alles nog open... Onze route zal er ...

... just only scratched the scratching of the surface where you scratch.... something like that... With this trip I become more and more excited to experience new things everyday. Actually being on the trip is overwhelming, to know that I'm actually here doing what I've wanted to do for little less than a year is... AWESOME! Goodnight for now! Hope all is well! Let me know how everythings going! Miss you guys!

... could to the 'uncool' position. I didn't get it exactly because it's pretty hard to be uncool when your me. What was uncool though was riding into Rotterdam at about 9PM. Finding myself right in the middle of the city by 10. It's gottendam dark and i got no map of the city and no place to stay. I still cant comprehend exactly what i was doing in that predicament, or how i got out of it. I think fear had a little bit to do with ...

... it's tiny compared to Schipol airport!!! Our flight from Gatwick was fairly fast (about 40 minutes). But once we landed, it took a good 15 minutes to taxi to the gate!!!!! This place is ginormous! Passport control was a breeze (unlike Gatwick) so was customs. Fred and Jenny were waiting for us. After an hour's drive, we were in Oosterhout. We're having technical issues with our digital media (ie pictures). Rob forgot ...

... night on the (little) town. We found a nice club and drank there for a while and ended up heading back to Shanna place for more drinks and to have a good chat. We eneded up talking all night it was about 5am when we decided to leave. Gouda was great and I just got to the markets before they closed so I can say I have seen the famous cheese market ;)

... bus (trams stop running around 12 midnight) back to the Leidseplein and Jaimi and I went back to the hotel.....Now things start to get weird......At 1:30 almost 1:45 Jaimi (who for the record does not smoke or drink) starts to snack on some of the junk food in our room, then on to something salty and she decimates my pistachio stash, and she was giggling, and giggling and all I could imagine is she had gotten into my stash....we laughed and laughed as she giggled and ate...we call it the munchies...

oh... windmills! i think I'm stepped back into the 17 / 18 centuries, those well-preserved historic windmills and houses are so beautiful. there's famous with the traditional Dutch Hand Crafts such as the Wooden Shoe Workshop, the Pewter Foundry, the Cheese Farm... yummy yummy for those cheese, :p