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Background: The Kingdom of the Netherlands was formed in 1815. In 1830 Belgium seceded and formed a separate kingdom. The Netherlands remained neutral in World War I, but suffered invasion and occupation by Germany in World War II. A modern, industrialized nation, the Netherlands is also a large exporter of agricultural products. The country was a founding member of NATO and the EEC (now the EU), and participated in the introduction of the euro in 1999.




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Fi here. Gabe has given up. Yes, that's right. He's taken his soccer ball and he's gone home. No more writing from him. So it is up to me, his long-suffering wife to take up the mantle of the blog, wowing you with our wondrous journey and adventures. I apologise for the serious delay in updating the blog. We were busy. Hamburg. Full of graffiti and Germans. Pretty cool frankly. It was the first place where we were able to wander the streets looking much like locals. No one was any the wiser – until we opened our mouths of course. [View Full Entry]

Gabu - Fi and Gabe | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 18th 2009 | 30 Views | [diary=460195]

Boats in Marken
Family Portrait
Fi and Beers

Arriving on a very efficient train from Berlin which I thought was heading to South Amsterdam station, the lovely train conductor told me I could hop across a platform at one of the stations and arrive at Amsterdam Centraal which was where I wanted to be, so already I was a fan of Holland... Now I was going solo with Ben having gone to Hamburg to see family friends, I took myself out for dinner, and later realised that I was actually sitting in the restaurant window...luckily in the right part of town & not the red light district!!! A visit [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 26th 2009 | 43 Views | [diary=459271]

Canals
Symbol of Amsterdam!
Pretty canals

Amsterdam Amsterdam was a super quick trip. We were going to book an extra night when we arrived, but were glad we decided not to after seeing our room. This was probably my least favorite hostel because it was incredibly cramped and dirty. As an added bonus, there were two girls in our room who were very inconsiderate considering they were sharing a tiny room with 6 other people. Anne Frank House This is really the only place we went worth mentioning. The building were Anne Frank hid during the beginning of the Holocaust with her family and some other people [View Full Entry]

ShiraGreenbaum - Shira Greenbaum | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 2nd 2009 | 47 Views | [diary=457745]


It was time to leave London and begin the real testing part of our journey! Couldn't bucking felieve it! We were kind of sad to go and excited to be on the next part of our trip already, and possibly the biggest part so far. The campervan that we received for our $AU4300/3 month hire was a Toyota LiteAce “Noah”. Obviously this is a Japanese import as it has Japanese writing all over it... And who in the Western World would EVER call a car a Noah? If our budget goes according to plan, we'll get out of the Schengen states [View Full Entry]

AleksNemo - Aleks & Nemo | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 11th 2009 | 19 Views | [diary=459752]

The Ark On Its Maiden Voyage
Nemo Hanging Out In The Bar
Gouda By Night

Our time in Amsterdam.... is a blurr.... but so much fun...... get on it!!!! wake up... eat... space cake... laugh ALOT... sleep....... repeat x 5 [View Full Entry]

Mags and Courtz - maggie simmons | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 18th 2009 | 58 Views | [diary=453898]


I am absolute crap at taking videos, so you can imagine my surprise at capturing this scene of the Concert-Gebouw at night. We were on our way home, looking for a tram, when we stumbled upon it. I hope it works on your computer, since it's worth viewing, it really is. An hour before, sitting at dinner, Ron and I were discussing what we felt were the "bests" of our month in Holland. For me, it was easy. I loved riding my bike, even in the rain, down the smaller canals beside Marianne's house. These weren't the glamourous canals of the [View Full Entry]

Liz and Ron - Elizabeth Morantz and Ron Roth | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 5th 2009 | 112 Views | [diary=449901]

Vera makes a new friend

Learning to ride with a loaded bike can be humbling. The first time you set out on a tour it is hard to fathom what the bike will feel like under the load of all your gear. The unsteadiness you feel that first time mixed with the thought of the task at hand makes the whole undertaking seem for a moment unimaginable and you are given the opportunity to either quit, go insane, or focus on what you can do for the moment and forget about the future. That process, forgetting about the future, is an ongoing meditation. When you start [View Full Entry]

Bike Tour Eurasia - Chad & Allison | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 31st 2009 | 115 Views | [diary=449671]

Muiderport Station
Amsterdam
From sea to sea

When you travel with a Ron, you get to hear a lot of music. I could trot out all my favourite adjectives and tell you about Katarina Garcia, lilting her way through a set of Sefardic melodies, making us forget that we were sitting on hard chairs in a Dublin public library. Or Slaid Cleaves, who transformed a monastery kitchen on the Dutch side of the German border into a roadside bar on the dustiest patch of south Texas. Or I could confess to a moment of such intense identification during an Idan Raichel concert, where I sang at full throttle [View Full Entry]

Liz and Ron - Elizabeth Morantz and Ron Roth | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 23rd 2009 | 86 Views | [diary=442096]

Slaid Cleaves in Ottersum
Joan Baez in Amsterdam

I finally made it to Kenya! Wow, it has been a long weekend of traveling...and it's not over yet. Yesterday, Sidney (another student teacher from IU) and I had a 10 hour layover in Amsterdam! I was so excited about all the things we got to see/do. We got off at central station, which is right by the red light district. We walked around quite a bit and found a nice restaurant with outdoor seating. The weather was probably high 50s and nice. We had some lunch along with a beer of course. Then we walked around to see the sights. [View Full Entry]

Jenny in Kenya - Jennifer Yearby | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 19th 2009 | 128 Views | [diary=446333]


On Tuesday night Gran and Gramps arrived in Amsterdam! Dad, Harry, Sam and I left early to meet them at their hotel. There we surprised them and gave them directions to get to our place for dinner. It was really cool because when we rode home we were going about the same speed as the tram so we could wave to them. Once we got back we had a dinner that we bought from the market and we showed them around. Finally for desert we had some of the 117 poffertjes that we made. The next day it was Dad's birthday. [View Full Entry]

TheVeitchTrip - Jen, Al, Tom, Harry and Sam | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 12th 2009 | 51 Views | [diary=444439]

Dad, Harry and I at Heineken
Gran and Gramps at Dad's birthday dinner
Dad's birthday


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