Mercure Amsterdam

We are on the flight to Amsterdam. We should have left already but the weather in Amsterdam is so bad that they have only 1 runway open. So now we have to wait on the plane for 1hour 40 minutes. We don't know if we will be able to make the conecting ...

During my first day in Amsterdam before starting work I spent about five hours walking around the city without a plan and trying to explore as much as I could.  I did this on all but one of my days there and really enjoyed it.  The city is truly ...

We made it.  The flight was okay, very squishy seats for such a long flight. While waiting for the plan we met a guy who used to live in Brantford and went to St. Leo's school.  Another guy we had a drink with was from Paris.  ...

After breakfast we travel to friendly Amsterdam where an orientation tour includes a canal cruise in a glass topped boat.This was so enjoyable and it stopped raining for us. In the afternoon we... I will enjoy a visit to a diamond polishing ...

... nasty food and an acute lack of sleep behind us we arrived safely at Heathrow then took the short trip to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. Our bag showed up and our passports were stamped and we were in Europe. Then as we searched for our hotel we ...

Due to the lateness of the start we missed our afternoon trip into Amsterdam. Not letting anything stop us we caught a cab with friends to see what Amsterdam was all about. Lots of ladies and ladyboys in the windows plus copious amounts of weed growing in ...

... said our goodbyes again and Pat & I headed off down the highway towards Essen which was about a 2-1/2 hour drive from Amsterdam. The drive was pretty much uneventful until we started getting close to the Ruhr industrial area and traffic started to get ...

We are going to be travelling in a BMW 520 SED from Bristol all the way to Warsaw. The reason of this travel is well to see new places we've never been to and to basically enjoy the travelling around our old Europe. I'm also a big fan of history, ...

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OK, I managed to arrive in Schipol at 09:50 - just the time my flight to Sao Paulo was due to take off. Have you ever been in Schipol? It's Mahoosive!! Pretty much ran through the airport to get to the transfer desk only to be told by a very nice ...

A nice buffet breakfast before we headed down the highway to Germany and our first stop at Cologne. Here we spent time exploring a stunning, gothic style church.  It's size and craftsmanship was amazing.  A quick pretzel for lunch, and then we ...

... Gare de Lyon at 7pm. Drank Rose, ate and read till 9.30pm when the train boarded. Couchette not as good as the one from Amsterdam. Also, the 4th berth was filled by a French soldier who snored all the way to Nice. No breakfast or wake up call ...

... . By 9:00 am we were on the road and of course as soon as I got behind the wheel on a major street in Amsterdam, there were motorcycles zooming in and out of traffic, pedestrians crossing at any time and any place and many delivery trucks stopping the ...

... hotel. Eventually, after weaving around for about 30 minutes, we stumbled upon the train station, which meant we were close to the hotel (Mercure Hotel for EUR 122/night). It was now around 2:00 so we dropped off our bags and headed into town. I had ...