Blogs from Gelderland, Netherlands, Europe - page 10

Vandaag met Sabine en Casper een dagje naar de Apenheul geweest in good old Apeldoorn. Dit was nog een cadeautje voor m'n verjaardag uit 2006. Het was een gezellige middag aldaar.... read more

After the best sleep I've had since leaving home in a nice big double bed, Jaap and Els took me to visit a nearby WWII Museum. I don't know much about war history, but more and more on this trip I'm enjoying learning about the history of places I'm visiting. To start out I joined a guide. He was giving the tour in Dutch so that idea didn't last too long! I ended up making my own way round the museum. Luckily all the display information was in English too. I didn't even consider it might only be in Dutch, since everyone in Amsterdam spoke English. It was really interesting reading the war history of Nimegen especially. It gave me an idea of what my grandparents lived through back in the 1940's. ... read more

so we are finally over the hump and on our way down the hill...only 15 days and counting until we have warm meals, clean beds, different clothes to wear, and others besides ourselves to talk to. it will be nice... but in the meantime there are things to see and do. rock adventure number two was amazing in kemonicky senov, czech. the picture will amaze and i am dieing to share but havent got the time or usb port to upload pics. from there i met back up with andrea and melanie, who went to krakow poland while i hiked and saw rocks. we met in berlin and stayed at Soliman's place (a friend of mel). he was great , always tickled by the tiny things which was very refreshing and awesome to be around someone ... read more

we are in arnhem, home of classic bills championship manager dutch team, vitesse arnhem! its absolutely freaking scorching! i quite like arnhem, its small but still kinda bustling. had a hilarious moment in a bar restaurant just now. we'd been walking for ages trying to find somewhere to have a drink, and we finally decided on a place by the river. we go in. the barmaid, as seems to be the way, is very attractive. gaz gets served, and then the barmaid proceeds to ignore me, minor and dizzee smizzle entirely. like, she just stands behind the bar looking at us for a bit, walks around the restaurant and comes back, cleans glasses and just basically wastes time. weird! minor eventually got served, i got engrossed in reading about the weather, and everyone was happy. weird ... read more

Finally the weekend had arrived where my family had travelled to Europe for a holiday and I had the privlidge of buying myself a ticket to Rotterdam to meet them so we could visit some of our distant dutch relatives. It was quite strange after travelling alone for so long to be met at an airport, and even stranger to be met by my family! Was great to see them all again, and for my first night we stayed with Arthur and Karline. The next morning we were up for the Rotterdam International Discgolf Tournament. Despite a small turnout of only 3 players we had perfect weather and a tough tight course that proved challanging, especially for a bunch of guys that were more than a little rusty. There were still a few awesome shots all ... read more

What a long, strange trip its been. For the past three weeks I've basically been travelling non-stop. It all started with my trip to Ireland. We came back for a day and a half only to leave for Haarlem (NL) on Wednesday night. From Haarlem we drove to Amsterdam and then flew to Prague. From Prague I took an overnight train to Italy where I spent two days in Venice, then Florence, and finally Easter in Rome. And I just got back at 12:30 today. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I should probably talk about everything thats happened between my trip to London and Paris and now. There's so much. (London and Paris will have their very own entry which will be up soon.) The weekend after we got back from our first excursion/independent travel break I went with Meaghan ... read more

Untitled Ian Mills My school is a European School with links with schools in Hungary, Italy and Holland...every year they have an exchange programme with one of the schools in these countries - this year it is with Holland and as there are so few male teachers at my school I was asked to travel to Holland and supervise the exchange. We travelled by train from Grossenhain to the school in Holland in a small town called Stevensbeek. I met the teacher that I would be staying with - Steef Arts - and we drove to his House in Nijmegen where after a bit of dinner we went out to his "Student Club". It was an action packed week with something going on everyday including visits to a War Museum on Overloon, a day at ... read more