Hotel Hilversum - de Witte Bergen
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Typical Dutch Travel
Drove from Amsterdam to Amersfoort to meet with Joris to start our 23 km bike tour.
We rented bikes at the rail station and biked through Soest and Baarn and finally Eemdijk where we met a ferry that took us back to Amersfoort. See the You Tube video of this tour at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN5O484k eZ4
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Coffee
... until Bill’s eyes were bulging (and that’s not all). They finally plucked up the courage to go into a ‘coffee shop’ - bizzar!! Jager bombs were on special - they downed a couple of those and went to the lounge area of a neighbouring pub to have some more ‘coffee’. Bill chatted to a couple of friendly young fellas beside him. Alo looked around and noticed lots of fellas. In fact all ...
High hopes
... stayed was amazing, right opposite a hemp shop and a coffee shop we had plenty to entertain ourselves. You can just lose yourself wandering about the city, weaving about the canals with a plate of Poffertjes.
Love it. Especially at christmas time.
The Van Gogh Museum was the one place I really wanted to see, we queued for an hour in the rain, but once we got ...
Royal Palace, Carnival, and Occupy Amsterdam
... but now that I've had time to think about it, I think it has its perks. A Dutch student told me that at research universities like the UvA, students are guaranteed to get into their graduate program if they pass their courses with the exceptions of some special programs. This might seem strange to us, but it is understandable since it is easier to fail classes here and since Dutch students take a rigorous test to get into the universities. I think it is really nice ...
The Hiding Place
... option to get into the city. Park at the station and take the tram to the concert hall. After a big fiasco of trying to buy a city card to Amsterdam called “Iamsterdam” (generally city cards are always worth it!) and finding an ATM to pay cash (apparently they don’t like Mastercard…) and finding a map big enough to have both the station we were at and the concert hall on it so we could see which tram to take, we got ...