Sheraton Amsterdam

... 7 when my parents took me out of school from December to mid-January (~7 weeks). Except this time...I backpacked. No five star Sheraton Hotels. But it did come to a total of 12 flights and numerous boat/bus rides. I've been asked by various friends ...

... and Bob liked the boat cruise the best...oh wait, that because the slept the whole time.  Hunter is excited and says Amsterdam pizza is "awesome" and Doug of course found a little cactus store and tried to geek out with the locals.  Heading to ...

... ladies, dutch buildings that are..leaning. It's all the water that plays havoc with the foundations. We sail by the "Amsterdam", a work project for unemployed workers to learn the skills of wooden shipmaking. This tall sailed ship looks like it came ...

... , I have a really good antipasto and pasta. Chris went with the lamb burger. Leading to the song of the day, "Lamb Burger in Amsterdam". My appologisies to Jimmy Buffet. Back to hotel for a really good nights sleep. On our way, we swing by Anne Frank's ...

so here i am in hotel pulitzer in amsterdam central... was supposed to come tomorrow, but ended up here a day early (long story- buy me a drink and ill fill u in :)  i got here from the train station in heerlen, netherlands at around 9pm, went to the ...

Jen says: I am feeling a bit rough here on Monday, in an Amsterdam Internet cafe, and I think I am ready to come home.  Dublin was the perfect end to a perfect honeymoon.  We are both very lucky, not only for the amazing adventure, but for being ...

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... all night. Fortunately we eventually stumbled upon a place for 150 euros, which by this point seemed almost reasonable for amsterdam. Our outrage at getting ripped off in such a manner was tempered that evening by the spring sunshine setting the ...

... the perfect opportunity for us to spend a couple days in our favorite city and see our friends.      Brad got into Amsterdam on Monday and Chris meet him there on Thursday.  Kim and I drove the car there and meet up with them on ...

... This was my second time going, but it is still a lot of fun. And, as I stated in my post on the last visit to Amsterdam, we had to go by the Red Light District for a short walk.  Everyone who goes needs to experience that briefly. We also wandered ...

... and Swatch. These toy-like hybrid two-seaters are expensive, but so adorable. On arrival, we checked into the Novotel Amsterdam for 4 days of touring pleasure.  We boarded our private glass topped boat and cruised through a labyrinth of canals. ...

... to the airport. We had free food and got a good sleep. 6:15 am we woke up and meet the connecting flight to Amsterdam.....Funny Story: Glenn misplaced his boarding pass 2 mins after recieving it from Catherine. He found it behind his chair. Glenn also ...

... Our last entry ended in Dubrovnik, which seems like a long time ago! Since then we have been to Zagreb, the Prague airport, Amsterdam for a "stopover" night, and Cape Town. I have lots of writing ahead of me (and you have lots of reading ahead of ...

... at 9am which saw us arrive at the airport at 9:30am for our 12:10pm flight to Gatwick. I was suprised at how quiet the Amsterdam airport was - there were barely any people there at all so check in was relatively easy. We had a bit of a scare though as ...

... last night out in Barcelona. My luggage was completely packed to the max having significantly contributed to the economies of Istanbul, Amsterdam, and Barcelona. My big roller board suitcase was now 29 kilos and my large backpack was nearly 20 kilos. My ...

... then off to bed - it is the equivalent of 3.15am in NZ. We leave Singapore tomorrow midday and fly to Frankfurt and then Amsterdam - so about 15 hours of flying ahead of us tomorrow. Are planning on doing our first bit of shopping at the airport before ...

... . Europe: 23 Nov-13 December. I booked a return ticket to/from London. From there, I could be anywhere. I'm considering Ireland, Amsterdam, Spain, perhaps even Turkey. My options are all wide open. For the holidays, I will likely be in San Francisco and ...

... of work handover and home makeover.  It was worse for Claude, he arrived home on Friday night back from a 10 hr flight from Amsterdam and had only one day to pack and get ready to leave on Sunday morning.  In between we also managed to ...

... 9 am the next day to get a full day's worth of site seeing in. We may have been exhausted from site seeing back in Amsterdam, but we have rested plenty and were excited to see what wonders Brussels had to offer. The first, and probably most famous, site ...

... After the music and light show, I went back to the hotel and was surprised to hear it start up again an hour later. It didn't run as long this time, but it was long enough to remind me of the bells in Amsterdam. Thank god it didn't run for an hour long! ...