Hotels van Oranje Noordwijk

... control and through baggage claim it was nearly 7:30, and I was way passed the time I was supposed to meet up with the person I was planning to share a taxi with. I looked for about 15 minutes for her, but finally decided she must have gone on without me (I hope!) so I grabed a taxi for the 20 min trip to Leiden. <br><br>One very expensive taxi ride later, I checked in to my 2nd floor room (btw, no elevators), and I am now ...

... RIK SMITS! Anyway, as I was saying, we hit up this guys' bar for a while and then our way to Paradisa Club. When we got there, the crowd was a little sparse, but that didn't stop us from fistpumping our faces off. We enjoyed ourselves for a solid while, rocking out, some of us in skinny ties, some of us not. I felt extremely "euro" and tried to use my 'snor' as somewhat of a pickup line on obviously taller-than-me Dutch girls. I'd just about all of ...

... card lest I should one day need an engineer.okiiii) we're told a "visual" inspection will take 30 minutes and determine whether we fly or not. visual eh? the joys of high tech. BUT we do take off. and we land at a Schiphol in minus zero temps and I get home to the neediest of kitty cats (boy do I love this munchkin) and lightening speed packing. at this stage it's take it or leave it and cross my fingers I have what I ...

... Amsterdam is true - everyone seems to have one and they ride them everywhere, no matter what the weather. Other cities I have been to where there is a very high level of bicycle use are Copenhagen, Stockholm, and the cities on the plain of the Po river in northern Italy, like Ferrara. I really don't know why bicycles are popular in some places and not others, but it's great to see the places where they are used as the car traffic is substantially less. After Amsterdam I ...

... all of that time, we decided to give our feet-ies a break and take a canal cruise to see the city in a different way. It was only 12 Euro and we supposedly got "100 highlights of the city," so I feel like I got my money's worth--I highly recommend it. And of course, I saw the Anne Frank house. It was a lot smaller than I imagined it to be, but I think it still had a big impact on me. After visiting ...

... is, please pick yourself out of the hole you have been living in and come experience the world with me. First, go here: www.couchsurfing.com. Now, listen to me. Couch surfing is a website where people from around the world create a profile and basically tell others that they are welcome to stay at their house. You message a potential host, tell them a little about yourself and what days you will be in town, and wait to see if they can take you in. It ...

Amsterdam is much more than drugs and sex. It is a mega city filled with tradition, art, architecture and a colorful past that lives on in the hundreds of historical musuems that tell the stories of time that this magical city has endured. Every year on April 30th, Netherlanders turn out in droves to celebrate their national holiday. It is a spectacle like no other I have ever ...

Hey Guys, We've made it to Amsterdam. We got here today at like 3 or so. We've been trying to find Buck and Newman but we haven't had much luck. It's kind of hard to coordinate without cell phones. We were in Brussels last night but it wasn't very fun. There is nothing to do there at night time. It's hard to find anything to even eat at night. Amsterdam is really cool. It's nothing like anything you've ever seen. There are still a lot of ...

... in it, he really captured the moment as if a snapshot in time (and not "posed" as previous works always appeared). Next, I stopped by next door at the Van Gogh Museum. It was kind of different going to a museum where all of the works were by only one artist. At least you never had to guess who they were done by. They have over 200 paintings by Van Gogh, which is about 2/9 of his total 900 paintings (all done within a 10 year period when he ...

... an underground place where they had the party in a 3 story house which had been turned into a club. The club was soundraded by houses. It was about 5 miniutes from the centre of the city. It was really kewl and the beer was cheep so i was in luck. The type of dance we saw was called doop step (i think that's how you spell it). It was like 90's jungle music ...