Park Plaza Utrecht

... and still had the canals, the fun people, and was less expensive.<br><br>There is a large university there, so there were lots of fun people our age. Stop by Utrecht next time you're in Amsterdam. It's only about a half hour away.<br>

(30 miles) We woke up a 6 AM this morning in order to catch a train to the Amsterdam airport where we said hi to Chrissy's sister Sage's family. She and her husband Troy brought their 6 children to Europe for two weeks and toured everything. Pretty amazing. We just wanted to see the expressions on their faces before they left. After the exciting reunion we the hopped on our bikes in Driemond and biked down some ...

... and a horrible salary, man and children not to be left alone and a worsened health and starting alzheimer. No, I am still young and reasonably fresh, so why not make the most of it and enter the dream that I've had for years, try my luck abroad? I've been strolling around in all types of exchanges, EVS programs, Erasmus stuff etc. and though two times I got close into actually leaving, it ended before it could start (as usually). So I had visited a family in a ...

... a lovely way to see the city. It really seems to be like what I would imagine Venice would be, Northern European style. The houseboats, the fascinating lopsided houses, lots of quaint bridges, and all forms of water craft. We did another tour of the city by bus, and walked to the floating flower markets. Just beautiful, lots of colur, and all types of bulbs for sale. Also growing kits and seed packs for Marijuana, quite legal ...

... he about Holland. Little reunion at the Waterhole, thai cooking lessons with A and Mira at her houseboat, portugese lessons, scary bicicle rides..only a few keywords for our time spend together! While he was off on his own, me and A, who came to visit me as well, discovered a bit of Amsterdam ourselves! Not too much walking though as she already has a belly the size of a basketball! Are you sure there is only one kid in there? To top it all I have ...

Everyone I know who had been to Amsterdam, have nothing but good things to say about it. The Red Light Districts and Coffeeshops, juxtaposed with the beautiful water ways made up of the canals and the cultural heritage this city has to offer ... my first thoughts were that, 'Gosh! I can so live here!' :-) Taking away the days that I am on course, I have about only 2 days to really get to see the city. But somehow, I ...

... concentration camp. Opened in 1933 by the Nazis for detaining political prisoners and other "undesirables", by 1944 it was used as a concentration camp for Jews, Czechs, Poles, homosexuals, Roma, criminals.....everyone the Nazis didn't want around. Over 30 thousand prisoners here at it's peak and it was built for 6000. This was a little depressing to spend the day here but at the same time it was interesting ...

... alsof het niets was;.. 'tuurlijk gaat hij door..'<br><br>Nou je weet niet hoe mijn hart in mijn keel bonkte en kreeg de vraag ook bijna niet uit mijn mond; "zijn er nog plaatsen vrij, kan ik nog boeken voor de datum van 18 dec?"<br>Nou dat was toch wel lastig, het meisje wist me te (helaas) vertellen dat uiteraard net de laatste kaarten (lees vliegtickets) toen vandaag terug aan de vliegmaatschappij waren gegeven.. Maar ze zou het nog even aan een collega na vragen ...

... Ahhh these are my kind of people, if you ask me. I plan on sticking around until Saturday then making my way quickly down to Spain to attend La Tomatina (the tomato fight I've been looking forward to attending for over a decade). I still have much to tell you about my amazing adventures in Copenhagen and more details to fill in about all my experiences here. Hopefully, I will be able to find the time in the next ...

... only an artist for about 10 years, and rapidly progressed from dark and dreary things to a french modernistic brushstroke oriented way of painting still lives and bright and cheery things. Outside of the museum was a great park area full of people sitting with a picnic lunch and playing ball. Next to that, in front of another museum was a really neat pool that everyone went wading in, or sat on the edge and dangled their legs into the water. It was a great (and ...