The highlight of today was the visit to the Keukenhof Gardens in Lisse. These gardens are open just eight weeks of the year. 7 million bulbs have been planted for the spring and, needless to say, the gardens were out of this world! We drove past some of the tulip fields on our way to the gardens; also past the farms of the tulip fields. There ar...

I was finally in Holland during the spring. One of my goals was to head out and see the tulip fields. All roads (brochures and tours) seemed to lead to the Keukenhof. I'd never heard of it before, but was advertised to be the best place to see the spring flowers in and around Amsterdam, so I decided to give it a shot. My hostel had a shuttle lea...

The day that Pantea's Dad Bahman, arrived we took a trip to Keukenhof Gardens which is the world's largest botanical garden, located in Lisse, Netherlands. We thought this would be a good activity to help fight jet lag and we were happy that the plan worked! Surprisingly, the park is only open 10 weeks out of the whole year. We were lucky to hav...

Today we visited some beautiful tulip fields with our good friends Ted, Alicia, and Dylan. It is peak tulip season now, so just about everywhere you drive you see tulips along the side of the road. We were able to get some great pictures, and then we had dinner on the beach! Holland is beautiful in the spring!

Here we go, the point of the whole visit! Flower-Disneyworld :) a.k.a. Keukenhof. We took a direct train to Leiden (about 30 minutes); at the station we bought a combination ticket for bus/park entrance. There was a long wait, but when we got to the park there was a long line for tickets which we got to bypass, so it came out pretty evenly. The ...

Woke up late since we were supposed to meet in the lobby for breakfast at the insane hour of 6 AM and be packed and ready to go by 7. As I raced around the room trying to make myself look somewhat presentable within the allotted twenty minutes, I flipped on CNN to catch the latest on the war. It was crazy, I mean, the whole world was in a frenzy...