Haarlem Hotelsuites

... bit of litter around (unusual for European tourist areas which are generally well-maintained). We hummed and hawed over our choices for dinner, ultimately deciding on an Italian restaurant. After dinner we wanted to check out the Red Light District... but had to settle for one bored-looking lady of the night in a red-framed window. Oh well. Perhaps Amsterdam will be more exciting.<br><br>

... she turned it off. argh. Good thing I'm on vacation and not having this same exchange with Dave R. I can't complain though because they figured it out. The auto-find Network feature was selecting a network that didn't like my service. She showed me how to scan and find all of the available networks and cycle through them until one send a signal - 5 bars. So the phone works and I ám able to troll for networks the next time this happens. First stop is ...

... saw "The Chronicles of Narnia" at the movies. The weather here was quite bad, so we weren't able to hire bikes and head out of town like we wanted to. We did, however, find a really cheap (by previous standards) internet, so we did everything we needed to do (even some skype calls to organise accomodation in the UK &amp; stuff!) Later that night we went on a tour of the Red Light District. It went for about 2 hours and was actually ...

... cup of tea and Bread and butter pudding for our second breakfast of the day and an hour latyer we landed in Amsterdam with 8 hours to kill. We off loaded some more of our hand luggage and set off to explore the city. We had good authority on where to go by our 14 minute telephone conversation, with the unofficial Amsterdam tourism guide (thanks Deb!) and so we wandered aimlessly amongst the streets and canals, fueled on by numerous hot ...

After my Stillman Theater shows in Arnhem I took the opportunity to spend a couple of days in my favourite European city, Amsterdam. I went with my good friend Manuel who works in Malaga, Spain. Keep an eye out for him if you're ever in downtown Malaga as he has a great aviator character and wonderful show. He doesn't speak much English so it was a much-needed chance for me to practise my Spanish. I also ...

... He made it look easy and hard at the same time. Then we got to taste some of the cheese, my favorite being the smoked ham and onion one (Very tasty). Cara and then decided to jump into the giant clog out the front for a photo opportunity. It was all well and good at the time, then we realised that we couldn't get out without getting nailed because we were sitting on a rickety old piece of wood inside the clog that was like a see-saw. Needless to say we did get out eventually in ...

Eu adorei Haarlem, é uma cidade minúscula, mas é simpatica, e tão pequena que em 30 minutos eu rodei em todo o centro histórico. Foi a minha primeira parada no meu primeiro dia de exploração dos paises-baixos. Comprei um passe da eurail que e valido somente na Holanda, tres dias de viagens de trem ilimitadas por 49 dolares, bem barato. Depois de explorar bem o centro de Haarlem eu fui pra Leiden.

Read more stories and see photos at Adventures of a GoodMan Before heading back to Amsterdam to meet up with Brent and Larry, Ned and I headed up to Haarlem to explore the city. After waiting out a rain storm and wandering around for a bit we began to discuss how we had not seen a single black person on our trip thus far. Well, mere moments after finishing this conversation we enter the town square and see a mob of families ...

... time it deserved. Never had I realized that Van Gogh interjected his paintings with so much philosophy, and many of his paintings were framed on the audioguide by voiceover narratives contained in letters he sent to his brother. One of my favorite paintings was "Glass of Absinthe and a Carafe". I had seen this painting before at an exhibition in Washington D.C., but this time, I could actually see reflections on the carafe that I had never seen before. For a moment, I thought I saw ...

... Dutch is a really complicated language! I haven't been capable of learning anything! just few basic words as kaas (cheese), gehartk (meat), brood (bread), huis (house), kerk (church), grote (big), klein (small), straat (street)... Maybe if you speak german, dutch could be easier, but in my case I don't speak german either (I'd really like to learn it). Well, at least with my rudimentary english I've survived!