I was up early on Wednesday to pack and make sure I was ready to leave. Dad and Wanda dropped me off at the Dordrecht train station. After spending every day for two weeks with them I felt very sad to say goodbye. (The next day they were flying to Poland to spend 5 weeks there, visiting Luiza and Bartek and doing some travelling around the country.) I am very thankful to my Dad for taking me around Holland and being able to learn more about my heritage through and with him. And to Wanda for being a lot of fun [View Full Entry]

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Phew! Wow, there’s so much to catch up on. Let’s see if I can remember everything that’s happened in the past 2 weeks. On Monday, Dad, Wanda and I took the train to Leeuwarden, a city in the northern part of The Netherlands. Dad had gotten us cheap all-day tickets from Tante Rite and this was a great way to see more of the country. I’d never been up north before. It was a great idea since we could see a lot from the train on the way but it happened to be pouring rain just about the whole way. Well, [View Full Entry]

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I've been in the Netherlands since last Wednesday. It's now Sunday afternoon and I'm at my Tante Rite's house taking advantage of her internet since we don't have internet at my Oma's house. So much has happened this week already! It's great to be here again. 7 years is way too long to go without seeing my Dutch family but it honestly doesn't feel like 7 years in many ways since it's just like being at a second home. All of my family on my dad's side lives here. I flew to Amsterdam with a short stop in London. My fiirst [View Full Entry]

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Here we are back home after a fantastic trip to the MG Car Club European Event of the Year in Norway. It was at Geiranger wich is a ENESCO heritage site of beauty. And so it is. We went by ferry from Kiel to Oslo, but on the way back we drove the whole way through Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, then back to the Netherlands. Elton John's massive yacht arrived in front of our hotel as well during our stay. Massive waterfalls, fjords, real drivers roads with hundreds of hairpin bends. Great. There were 250 cars from all over Europe at [View Full Entry]

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Dordrecht and Einhoven, Holland - July 9, 10 We left at 11am on a train for Dordrecht, Holland. It was about a 3-hour train ride, and we had to transfer in Antwerp. Tony came with us…and of course we had too much fun on our train ride! It consisted of listening to music, transferring files from one computer to another, and the obligatory dancing on the train! In Antwerp we stopped for waffles covered in chocolate and whipped cream. They were INCREDIBLE!!! They were so rich that we only finished one between the three of us! We arrived in Dordrecht just [View Full Entry]

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Dreumal => Dordrecht, 70.07kms, Total 2414.3, Ride time 3'57" " Today's ride time and distance doesn't reflect how much work we put into these headwinds. Our tip at this moment if coming to Holland. Head EAST. Still, the day was pleasant if you had the right attitude. The mornings ride took us to a little town where we stopped for coffee and cake, had a look around a couple of shops before heading on. Really, though most of today was head down and into the headwinds. We caught [View Full Entry]

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Menipäs monta päivää ilman nettiä! Nyt ollaan Dodrechtin McDonaldsissa ja naputellaan konetta samalla kun Lare syö "iiihan piiiikku-piiikku hampurilaista". Ollaan haeskeltu karttakaupoista karttoja Antwerpeniin asti, mutta ei olla löydetty kuin Bergen-op-Zoomiin. Jatketaan matkaa kun on käyty kirkko katsomassa ensin. Tässä kaupungissa keisari Fredrik III tapasi poikansa ja pojanpoikansa 1486, tuskin kävivät tässä mäkkärissä.... Eikä täälläkään toiminutkaan verkko, pitää mennä muualle. Vaikka kirjastoon. Kirjastossa toimii! 12.4. Alphen /Gouda Henkka on tasan neljä kuukautta vanha. Se [View Full Entry]

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This is what I call a holiday. This is on the top of the Gotthard Pass in the middle of the summer would you believe. [View Full Entry]

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After getting back to Edinburgh Tuesday was spent doing a bunch of blog entries at an internet cafe while Heather and Jesse did another bunch of errands. We were up and at it fairly early on Wednesday 'cause we had a flight to catch to Amsterdam and we had to return the rental car on the way. Things were seeming to be going nicely, thinking of being at the airport about 8:00AM for our 10:00AM flight, when I just happened to check the paperwork for our EasyJet flight and boy, did things hurry up!! The flight was actually scheduled to arrive [View Full Entry]

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