Ibis Rotterdam Vlaardingen

I've officially now joined the IWC (international womens club) of Breda, as of yesterday morning. It feels great to be a part of something in this strange land we've all come together to call home. They held the monthly coffee morning yesterday at Latte's and Literature in town centre, and the turn out was amazing. There were at least 30 women i...

Teachers working in International schools are required to host various after school activities, and one of the joys and/or challenges are the opportunities to take students on these trips. Some trips are awesome and others let's just say are hard to forget...

For the past three years I have been training students in the diplomatic proce...

April: Amsterdam had been everything I had expected and better even because I met my girlfriend there. The city is still plenty vibrant and colourful -as its people- since last I was there. Unfortunately, I couldn't visit any of the museums I hadn't been to yet this time around -or revisit the ones I had liked before. We stayed on our own cloud ...

Bula everybody! "Bula" is the word Fijians use for virtually everything, to greet, to say goodbye, how are you etc. It's a nice, easy, welcoming word, just like the wonderful people that live there. They also often use the phrase "it's Fiji time", meaning that everything goes at its own relaxed pace...you never know when the boat will come to pi...

(Amsterdam, Friday the 13th of April, 2007)-It's been a truly wonderful spring in Amsterdam this year, with sunshine every day and not enough rainfall to write home about. I've had an extremely leisurely time, catching up on my rest after a grueling time in the States, working on organizing my GUITAR ARMY tour April 22-May 15, planning a tour of...

Woke up in janette's house and had to find my way home,turned out it was only around the corner from rosses, although she asked me to stay in holland and live in her house, i had to decline cos of things at home, got home and the lads were going down to a park to kick a ball around,so i joined them, messed around for a while ,then came back to t...

Woke up and went and booked my flights home,last week they were 45 euro home,but today they cost, 185,had to re-arrange some money,but managed to get the flight home done,for sunday. went back to rosses,got some lunch and went down the beach, found the nudist beach and joined in the fun, swam a good bit and lazed around some more, some lovely wo...

On Wednesday we decided to take the train to Delft, because I had heard it was a very quaint cute town with lots of good shopping. The train from Amsterdam Central station took about an hour (we got to pass even more beautiful flower fields on the way!). I have to say I was a bit disappointed. The bulk of the shops in the center were touristy **...

Many people have been asking us what the differences are between the Netherlands and the US, so here is a short list and a few stories to go along..... 1. BIKES and canals are EVERYWHERE. The funny thing about the bikes is that they are all so ugly. No one here has a nice bike because it will get stolen. 2. Houses, cars, and stores are all much ...

Bericht van Frank Ik vertrek vandaag naar Nederland om deel te nemen aan het Nederlandse Lentekamp van Hospitality Club (HC). Het is een uitstekende manier om oude vrienden te onmoeten, om er nieuwe te leren kennen, en vooral om enkele personen te zien waar Ingrid en ik zullen overnachten op onze reis naar de Kruisheuvel. Sommige van hun HC geb...