Hampshire Auberge De Kieviet Wassenaar

... asleep at 4:30AM. I think travelling East is much harder than travelling West.

BEER BLOG- see above. Heineken tastes great when stuck in doors at Bubbel Jungle. Also, stayed away from Belgium and had 2 great other beers from The Netherlands. Heineken- Tareebok, tastes like a European Anchor Steam and Le Trappe-Dubbel, 7% alcohol and also a European, North West type beer.

Bye for now,
Will

... come back and beat the Yankees. Probably the only time jet lag will benefit me.

Sunday appears to be a day of rest and worship in Holland. Colleen and I were woken up by 5 minutes of Church bell ringing at 8 AM this morning. Andy tells us all the stores and shops in town will be closed today. But, I am sure we will have fun either way. Sunday dinner plan is Andy's ribs and the Mcginley family sangeria recipe!!

Bye for now,
Will

... and Carly was napping, so we decided to visit instead of sightsee. She had planned on us eating dinner around 6, but we asked her to move it up because Russ needed to get back to work some. I was also getting pretty tired myself, especially since we were in yet another place with breakable stuff we had to protect from Ben and his hyperness. Dinner was great, Ben ate like a lumberjack. Kids watched more cheesy kids ...

... AM and we needed to be on the road by this time. Our flight was scheduled for 10:20 AM, it we had at least a 45 minute commute from our hotel to the Schipol airport. Tracy and I booked it to Amsterdam central station and made it to the airport by 8:30 AM. After waiting in the check-in line for about an hour we were bumped to standby. Even though we may have had to possibly wait for the next flight we decided to run to the opposite end of the airport ...

... Trip to Paris was uneventful. Got to Paris very late. Had to walk from Gare du Nord to Gare du l'Est. Area outside Train station had a magical smell of bum urine. Only had one choice to get south. Took overnight to Zurich (no tickets/no Francs). Train stopped at many small French towns. The seats were ok for a 2 or 3 hours (the trip lasted 7.5). Brandon slept!

... kick. We had runny noses, cough, just felt pretty miserable. Miserable but functional. We checked out at noon, our train wasn't till about 8:00 so we wandered around for several hours. Pretty cool place. Not a place I necessarily need to return to. We had to mentally gear up for the next leg of our journey: 18 hours to ...

My last few days in Europe were spent enjoying spring in Amsterdam. I enjoy wandering about, exploring new neighborhoods, and taking lots of photos. Twilight is an excellent time to take photos anywhere, but especially in Amsterdam, where dusk seems to last for a good three hours. The weather was nice, though a bit chilly. I finally made it to the Van Gogh Museum, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Several paintings I really liked, so I bought postcards. I figure, hey, if ...

... bulbs and other flower seeds. You can also enter in the hundreds of drug shops and see how they sell marijuana, magic mushrooms, "natural" XTC... (yep, dutches are very liberal too) Later we visit the Rembrand's monument and then we take a Canal Bus: a small boat that crosses the canals of Amsterdam for one hour (costs €7). I recommend to do the trip at the evening when it's getting dark ...

... Alicia's parents also attended the wedding. The long weekend was a whirlwind as Alicia and her mom left the following Sunday to fly back to Holland. Alicia was thrilled to have her mom stay and help them get settled. Dylan loved having his Gigi to play with and spoil him rotten. :) We showed mom as much as we knew (very little) about our town of Wassenaar. Then we did some fun shopping in Den Hague and enjoyed some cute cafes for lunch and tea time! Ted ...

... a week which allowed me to go and do some exploring of Holland. I managed to go and visit Amsterdam a number of times as well as Rotterdam and a number of other citys nearby the campstie. The campsite I was working on was very large and as I mentioned earlier had a theme park on it and large swimming park. As I was a memeber of staff I got to use the facilitys for free which I did a fair ammount. The water slides at the park were really impressive and good for adults as well as kids.