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Pretty Flowers Like Pretty Rain
... it's just the way my body works!
Before arriving to Keukenhof, you could already see tulips grown on the side of the roads making some spectacular colour combinations, but unfortunately I could also see rain clouds forming above me. And it came, rain, horrible horrible rain. There are moments when I love rain, well let's just say this WAS NOT it.
We strolled to the side of some cafe inside Keukenhof, where ...
Keukenhof, and the lost photos...
... dedicated to certain celebrities (especially the funny-looking flower they honoured as the Einstein), and others I don't remember because I'm pretty upset. Bloody effing hell.
Urgh!! Anyways, it was a bit of a challenge to get to the Netherlands cheaply on short notice. In the end we caught a 10.30am flight with EasyJet from Luton airport, which meant we had to ...
So Many Flowers!
... and were directed to a bus that was full of tourists from an older demographic. Our driver gave us an explanation about where we were as we drove to the city. He was very impressive because he said the same thing in English, German, Spanish and he also spoke Dutch. He said that I had pronounced Keukenhoff very well, which was nice because Dtuch is a hard language to speak if you are not from the Netherlands. Keukenhoff actually means kitchen garden, because it was ...
Day 10 - Amsterdam again
... be gone...this is Europe...things get stolen, they don't get turned in." well, thankfully, she was wrong...John came back with the camera bag...they had found it when they cleaned the table and put it in a safe place. We consider ourselves very, very lucky. The card games and wine drinking went off without a hitch...another day in the record book!! So we bid Amsterdam farewell in the morning. Wanda...sorry to disappoint, but we did not fall in love with this city. Other than ...
Enjoy the View and Don't Breathe In
... lines of tourists start to form later on. It was a good thing we did. We got there at about 8:25 and had only about 15 people in front of us. By the time we left, a long line went down the street and wrapped around to the next block. The Frank family was a Jewish family from Germany that left their home country in 1933 when Hitler installed an anti-Jewish regime there. They fled to the Netherlands. When it became apparent that they needed to go ...
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