Hampshire Hotel 108 The Hague

... a party trick no doubt!

The whole town turned out for big celebrations that day in the big city square, which I'll never forget. It was for Santa Claus! There was a big procession with marching bands of young children leading the way, different floats and then Santa, sitting astride a big white horse, came along. He was done up like a Pope or an Archbishop, with cream robes and high hat, with gold trimmings and a large gold cross on the headpiece ...

... Saw the Palace & parliament buildings - quite a few pic's of all that I saw.

The funniest thing about The Hague was going to buy my train ticket to Schipol - the woman behind the desk said "Oh, you made it to Scheveningen then?" as I approached - it was the woman who I had asked directions to the tram earlier - the burned shoulders gave the game away I think!

... ikea, our apartment is starting to feel like a home. Saturday the 15th (my birthday) was the night of our house-warming - which we named our 'huis verwarmen', a completely wrong translation but fittling funny given my difficult grasp of the dutch language. We crammed about 30 people in the place and enjoyed a lot of wine, beer and dutch whiskey called Vieux - a great way to kick off my 23rd year!!

... of it (controlled slide down a rope; climbers do this). Though we didn't do it, it was fun to watch some people go down. The view from the top of Euromast was great, and we were even able to take a rotating elevator to the very top & get a great view of the city. Part of the package that we bought at the Euromast included a trip to the Maritime Museum. Here we learned more about Europoort and saw many ship models. We ran out of time there, however, because they closed at 17:00 and so ...

... for today, we decided to go directly to Den Haag- a good choice considering the lack of a good map to find the hotel "Petite". It is a nice hotel and is undergoing ...

... Londres, accompagné d'autres symptômes du mal du transport. Joie! Une fois à Londres, j'ai pris un autre autobus pour aller à l'aéroport. J'ai passé les douanes, j'ai déjeuné, puis je suis allée prendre l'avion. C'était drôle parce que les moteurs ne voulaient pas s'allumer au début, il a fallu amener un truc pour les faire partir. J'ai beaucoup plaisanté avec ça. En tk, je suis finalement arrivé à Schiphol, où j'ai pris un train jusqu'à la gare centrale, puis un tramway, puis j'ai ...

... had told us about all the leaning buildings in Amsterdam. That feature and the multiple variation in roof lines intrigued us. So too, the canals, house boats and bikes. So too did the people who rode those bikes - there was the old guy with the painted face and the walking stick, and the woman whose picture we snapped as she parked her bike outside the beauty parlour ...

... Ce que j'aime... L'ambiance assez relaxe (peut-etre est-ce le cannabis dans l'air?? ou la musique raggae un peu partout?? ou le sourire imbecile des poteux??? haha) Le velo L'architecture Les canaux Les bateaux Les bagel aux tomates Le tip que l'on ne donne PAS dans les bars et restos Le soleil vs la temperature qui me font penser a nos automnes Le soleil qui se couche tard!! (ou etait-ce mon horloge biologique qui est ...

... pointed out as we watched a houseboat neighbor struggle with a deck he was launching and he¡¦d turned down Rod¡¦s offer of help. He certainly provided us with entertainment. 2. You know that tell-tale smell of KFC that you can identify whenever you walk by one in Canada? Well, here it¡¦s the coffeehouses wafting pot smoke. Rod and Jake tried to get into a couple coffeehouses but they are asking for passports everywhere (the minimum age is 18). So Rod went out ...

This home is well known as an example of new thinking in dementia care. The philosophy is 'Daily Life' and this applies to the design, policy, care, etc The design of the building is of 6 self-contained homes around a central courtyard, with a glazed corridor access between the front door to each home and the external courtyard. Each home has 6 residents with bedroom, lounge, kitchen bathroom. The residents are on the ground floor, first floor are family flats ...