Shell La Residence The Hague

Well, the trip has finally started! After getting up way too early (nerves I guess) and repacking my backpack twice, I traveled to Schiphol. I tried to get a seat with enough room for my legs, but unfortunately those seats were already reserved. (So why does it say on the China Airlines website that those seats cannot be reserved?) Here we (a friend of mine who's also going to Bangkok and I) enjoyed a last meal on Dutch soil (a nice tosti) and afterward we boarded the Boeing 747 to Bangkok.

Just a few pics so as not to bore you all!

Crazy bodyworks exhibition in London - people who have donated their body to science and been plastified. Pretty interesting.

Jarrad b'day - went to Brighton

Tate Modern museum - its free and funky!

Arrived in The Hague on Monday, and off to Amsterdam tomorrow.

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... in Den Haag the next morning feeling a little bit fragile. We were greeted by Nicole and Raymond (Dave's dad's cousin and his wife) After freshening up and lunch in the garden as is was an unseasonally warm day, we headed out in to Amsterdam, this time taking Nicole's new mini. We stopped in a neighbourhood where Dave's Grandma lived and where Dave's dad was born before heading right into the ...

... luck, he would murder someone else before murdering me ... The guy is probably a serial killer, and reminded me a lot of this crazy girl I once met in Mallorca. I think her name was Nicky, and she might have actually been worse. I was finishing up my dinner on a terrace, and this American girl sitting nearby asked if I spoke English. I replied yes, and she invited me to join her - having not had a conversation ...

... the top as they are hidden by a canopy and sand that seems to go on for ever!!! The new renovation is in a 140 meter circumference concrete cylinder high enough to ...

Leaving home was very difficult. This has been a whirlwind month for me, prior to my decision to move to another country. Leaving my job of 6 years, quite suddenly and emotionally was hard enough to do. Then this whole opportunity arose and I figured this was all meant to be. So I left Boston at 7:45 pm (local time) on Wednesday, April 23rd and had the Angela squad to see me ...

... get up again at 3.30 to get ready for our taxi to John Lennon airport. We get there to realise that once again i had made a fatal error and realised check in opened an hour earlier than i had thought luckily we had made it through. although i was beginning to feel a bit stupid right about now. we had a cheeky pint in weatherspoons and ambled through security luckily i was looking OK this time and made it on the plane we tried for sleep but there was three meat head ...

Hi all, we arrived back in Amsterdam last night after a day trip to Bruge. It was beautiful. And quite surprisingly, a great shopping town. It had stores that we would have to drive to chicago or further to go to. It was very interesting in the midievel setting. We walked around for a while and enjoyed the canals. It started to rain pretty hard but luckily we had our trusty Costa Rica rain jackets so we were protected. And to escape the rain, we went into a ...

... L architecture moderne est bizare aussi, il y a plein de building "croches". En observant mes amis canadiens je me trouve "chanceux" de voyager seul. En effet, contrairement aux groupes je n ai pas le choix d aller vers les locaux pour demander des renseignements tandis que eux se contentent de s estiner entre eux! haha Bref ca donne de beaux moments comme ce matin quand je suis aller demander a un pecheur quel genre de poisson il pechait. On ...

... but their website has fabulous and accurate representations. Go to www.holiday.bluewavehouseboat.com. They've thought of all the details, including fresh flowers and they stocked the fridge with some local fare so that we could feast tonight and have breakfasts for days to come. So here we sit on their floating patio, enjoying a lovely breeze. The guys have had a recuperative nap but I think we'll all have an early bedtime tonight.