Zuid Haarlem
Toekanweg 2 Haarlem, Noord-Holland, NL 2035, Netherlands
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Good tasting coffee is nothin' but a faint memory
... saying we came at the right time...every day has been warm and sunny, getting to 23 - 24 degrees some days!. Don't get jealous yet though...its the warm before the ridiculous coldness of the Northern winter we will be going through soon.... eeeeek!
So anyway, in Haarlem we got right into the spirit of the drinking and eating culture! We got dressed up, ready to paint the brown coloured town a very bright shade of red..We went out for Mexican the second night, and I got ...
No Harlem Globetrotters in this Haarlem
... organ in Holland with 5000 pipes, notably played by age 10 Mozart in 1766. Handel also played here.
The organ takes up the whole end of the cathedral.
Something you don’t often see in a church is a ...
Benelux Travels Part IV: Haarlem
... through this town of Haarlem blessing your willingness to travel and seek new experiences, made that afternoon all the more memorable.
* Whoa- major John Updike moment, but it describes exactly how I felt.
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My next posts will return to the "Topography of the Third Reich" series - I have a few thoughts I'd like to share based on my visit to both the Deutsches Historiches Museum in Berlin and the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.
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I Amsterdam
... The museum functions not only as a recollection of the Franks’ experience in the war but is also used as a way to warn against prejudice in the future. Actually going into the house where they were living for years was really interesting. The original decorations that Anne Frank put on the wall of her room are still there and the annexe has been reconstructed to look exactly as it did. We saw original excerpts from her diary and I learnt a lot more about ...
Sex in the City
... made it out so off we went, first on the train and then to our hotel which we were able to check into early.
What an interesting hotel- you walk down the hall and it is like walking in a ship, very stark white with handles for doors (we figured out!). When you walk in the very small room, you see a shower on the right side suspended from the ceiling and a toilet to the other side, at the end of the room is what looks like a bed. Basically you pull doors around you ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Zuid



