NH Jan Tabak Bussum

... your plans very easily when you meet fun people that you want to travel with. So to Amsterdam we went. I had already explored much of the town during a 10 hour layover Stephanie and I had while flying to Cairo. So Steph and I guided everyone else around the town. It was pouring rain the entire time which made it difficult to walk around the city for long periods of time. We went to the Anne Frank house and explored the attic she ...

... easily spent all day there (we spent at least 4 hours there).  Seeing all the artwork up close is like nothing else.  You can feel his emotions in his paintings and its like you were there with him while he was painting them.   The pictures and prints of them don't do them justice at all.  At 4:00 we left and got some food at a supermarket.  We all sat down in the park right by Museumplein and had a picnic while soaking up the last bits of ...

Amsterdam is Paris, but smaller. Venice, but with less tourists. Sitting at any one of the numerous cafes along the treelined canals with a tiny glass(25cl)of La Chouffe or De Koninck beer is heavenly. How we make it home to our hotel without getting stoned simply from the scent of marijuana that flows from establishments called "coffee houses" is a mystery. Hookers in storefront windows, marijuana in restaurants. What a remakable city. If only ...

... Paris. Paris was amazing.. the museums, the crazy parking, the croissants, baguettes, the bottles of wine for 2euro. From Paris we went to Belgium. 5 days of waffles, fries with mayo, ice cream, chocolate, and the best value meal in Europe: 3euro huge spag bol from Bruges! I am in Holland now, having a great time with Kim and Willeke (a couple of Dutch friends) and am really excited about Queen's Day in Amsterdam on Wednesday. Will try and upload some piccies soon :-)

... chairs all had arm rests, so you couldn't sprawl across them. geez. so i finally figured out a way. the last chair only had one armrest and a table on the other side. next to the table was the radiator or heating thing, whatever. i fit perfectly (well, when curled up in an incredibly tight fetal position). i slept for about a half an hour. i wake up to hear about 7 security personnel talking. i look at vicki. she says, "i think we are not ...

... merry jingle of bicycle bells sharp cheese sweet poffertjes warm welcome wool blankets and family. Tommi There are no Sedan DeVilles. There are, however, lots of elderly women in impecable dress riding bicycles. There are no Town and Country station wagons and no obese people wandering the steets. The chocolates and cheese are so, so scrumptious. Most likely the obese people are so huge ...

... own tulips there") and ranged from his time in New Jersey and Connecticut, the weather, and American politics. He asked if we were Democrats, and when we confirmed that we were, he said, "Ah, I knew it - only Democrats come to Amsterdam," which we found quite funny (and likely true). He also had a nice selection of antique tiles - tulip themed, naturally - that his friend who does restoration work finds periodically. He had dated them all, which was really good to ...

... cart, pulled some money out of the airport baggage area ATM, and headed over to the Sheraton. The Sheraton is about a five minute walk, indoors, out of the terminal towards the parking garages. The receptionist at the Sheraton was unfamiliar with the arrivals privilege of using the Sheraton gym and he had to check with the manager first, but in a couple of minutes Kelley and I were in the shower rooms. There were lockers for our ...

... the unapologetic G. Gordon Liddy. It's all there on the record, for the benefit of those who care enough about history not to repeat it. And at a time when the country is engaged in fresh debates about the fragile relationship between privacy and national security, this particular chapter seems worth revisiting. "The U.S. vs. John Lennon" opens in 1971, when Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, appeared at a fundraising concert for John Sinclair, best known to most music fans ...

... que podem ser encontradas nos famosos « cafe's ». Não espereva ninguem no aeroporto, porem meu tio (Huib) fez uma surpresa e veio me buscar com a minha prima (Bauckien) :) Dirigi-me a Bussum, uma pacata cidade a 25 minutos de trem de Amsterdam. Fui muito bem recebido por minha familia, tia Aty, primo Toon e prima Joanneke que acabei por ver semanas depois. Tenho um quarto na casa deles, um conforto ! Melhor ainda depois de todo o ritmo de albergues ...