So only 11 days left before we are heading to the great Russia for the start of our Big Trip. We are doing the last prepartions now! Here we will post our travelexperiences, so you can follow us on our journey! We also have a dutch site, so most of the info is there. But we will keep you posted if you want to travel with us! Jorin and Sylvia [View Full Entry]

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Hello all, Today we had another boring day of travelling on autobahns. However I can now say that I have been in three different countries in one day - Belgium, Germany and Holland. We are back at Aunty Margareth's house, where we have been feed and watered. We emptied the car and now have the mission of trying to fit it all back into our suitcases. After our massive meal (I think Auntie Margareth was cooking for 18!) we went into town to the flea market. I couldn't convince Auntie Margareth to go on the carnival rides - so instead we [View Full Entry]

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Hi all from Schoonebeek. Here we sit at Uncle Albert’s & Auntie Margareth’s house. This morning was lovely weather so we went with Oom Arjen on his boat around the waters of Friesland. There were lots of sailing boats on the water as there was a large sailing race on. Jaz, you would love it here - so much water and heaps of sailing boats (Daniel’s got heaps of pictures for you). We were out on the water for a couple of hours and had a great time. We saw quite a few house boats (like an actual house on a [View Full Entry]

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GO CHINA IN DRENTE EN GRONINGEN Dear friends, Go China in Groningen en Drente - expositions and activities until 31-08-2008. The pictures we show you this time are an impression of the special exhibitions in the Groninger Museum and the Drents Museum in Assen. For the first time in The Netherlands: The Terracotta Army (Assen) and a special exhibition from the artmuseum of Shanghai. Enjoy the pictures. See you next time. Monkey and Bear. [View Full Entry]

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Galerie Wildevuur and Travelblogs are fixed Dear Friends, After 36 hours of stress and hard working and thanks to Ali Waters (founder of THE TRAVELBLOG), Google and Yahoo cache our travelblog is fixed again. As you can understand we are very happy with this. Last Saterday we visit the GALERIE WILDEVUUR in Hooghalen - Drenthe - The Netherlands. Website: Galerie Wildevuur When you are in Holland this is a great place to visit. Beautiful nature and garden. You also find here the idyllic teahouse 'Carpe Diem'. The expositions are chan [View Full Entry]

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LOST BLOGS Dear Friends At the end of July there was a mega crash and hackers attack on the server of THE TRAVELBLOG. Ten thousands of entries were lost. At the moment we are trying to recover the lost blogs with the help of Google and Yahoo cache pages. Every recovered blog will published again on the travelblog. After publishing a travelblog again you receive a e-mail that inform you about a new travelblog. Apologise for that. But we hope we can recover the lost blogs again. Love Monkey and Bear. Lieve vrienden en vriendinnen, Eind juli en begin augustus is [View Full Entry]

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On October 15th, I went with the International Student Organization ('Wings') to Camp Westerbork, a Nazi camp in the northern Netherlands. It was a day trip by tour bus that was actually only 5 hours total, but it was really interesting, and I'm glad I went. There is actually basically nothing left from the camp at the location; in the 1970s, the Dutch government asked the jewish community what they wanted done with the site, and the jewish people didn't want to be reminded of what had happened, so they requested it be demolished. There are currently raised mounds where [View Full Entry]

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