Hotel Wyswert Leeuwarden

... bit of lunch we all hopped into the car and drove to Grouw . This is a little place 15 kilometers out of Leeuwarden and where the family including Tiny used to go with their boats. Tiny used to sleep in the hotel and her room was permanently booked looking out to where the rest of the family were on the boat. In the morning she would open her window and groan good morning and when they all shouted back good ...

From Alice's diary,<br>"TUESDAY &#8211; LEEUWARDEN &#8211; 07.07.09<br> Christien, Cor, Mac and I were very slow to get started after all the excitement of yesterday.  Cor did go and play tennis for an hour but the weather was not to good. Rain and wind a typical Dutch day.  Christien and I went through all the old family photo's we had bought with us on my computer and she chose quite a few.  After we accomplished that we ...

Some of Alice's Diary Notes for Harlingen<br>" ..................We didn't realise how much time we had spend at the cemetery (locating the graves of Alice's infant brothers) so we took off and drove to Harlingen.  Harlingen is the harbour of Friesland and a gorgeous little place.  Lots of beautiful boats waiting to cross the Wadden which is the sea between Friesland and the islands of ...

... years or so. They are very proud of this as there are many much larger places close by that maybe called cities but have missed out on being included.<br><br>One of the things that is rather difficult to get used to is the vision of a sailing boat seemingly sitting in the middle of a paddock hidden somewhat by the farmers crops but moving along at a steady pace. More so in Friesland than other parts of Holland do you see this.<br><br>Thanks for the emails and messages

... and went to bed very excited because we knew when we woke up in the morning they would have their new baby.<br><br>TUESDAY &#8211; LEKKUM &#8211; 30.6.09<br><br>Isn&#8217;t modern technology a wonderful thing.  We woke about 6.30am and we had the message with all the details and photo&#8217;s on our computer.  How exciting!!!!  Summer Ruby has arrived in the world and both her and Melissa are fine.  We were so excited that ...

... so finally she has a copy (she's wanted one for awhile). After dinner, we shared a piece of yummy strawberry cake, then walked around the town a little to see some of the houses our ancestors where our ancestors used to live. It was starting to get late before we had even left Burdaard, and we still had to drive to Amsterdam, drop off the car, and get to our hotel. We drove over the Afsletdijk on the way there, which is very ...

... campings erbij, waar eet je en hoe reis je. Het is heel luxe, wij gaan met 2 auto's, ook dit is aangeraden. 2 weken geleden een nieuwe tent gekocht, dus het kan zijn dat hij de eerste tijd op de foto er nog niet helemaal netjes erbij staat. In de meivakantie lopen wij tot Hardenberg en hebben regelmatig een rustdagje (al dan niet verplicht), dit ook omdat Bambi toch een dagje ouder wordt en wij natuurlijk ook. Al met al, wij hebben er zin in!!!

Just when I thought that it wásn't possible for me to love this place anymore.... Mum and I went and spent the day with Aunty Yanni in her little village yesterday. We had cups of tea and chats with her in the late morning (while she plied us with chocolate and all things Dutch and yummy) then she took us out to her favourite little antique shop after lunch. Two things you need to know - the only shops in her village are a wee supermarket, the restaurant that we had dinner in the other ...

After a very long walk home from the previous night, I slept in. We met at Stenden and then hoped on a bus and went to a western style bowling alley. The owner tried to make it look like Texas or some thing of that style. Personally he did a **** poor job of it. But we ...

This is turning out to be a long travel day. Finally we reach our destination, a small city in northern Netherlands called Leeuwarden where Gary's friends live. We enter the city around 8:00 PM and head to one of Gary's familiar sights, then we begin to look for accommodation. We think that it won't be difficult to find someone, after all, this isn't a tourist mecca. Hotel after hotel, motel after motel is full ...