Hey allemaal! Dit is de eerste blog, en deze is dan ff gelijk een test om te kijken of iedereen ook echt een mailtje krijgt met een link naar mn travel journal. Jaja, nog twee weekjes en dan ben ik on my way to Recife. Al het papierwerk is al geregeld, nu nog een aantal pijnlijke vaccinaties en een check up bij de dokter, en dan....inpakken maar. Iemand nog suggesties voor dingen om mee te nemen? Heb namelijk nog geen idee wat ik mee ga nemen. Ik weet alleen dat k pindakaas meeneem. Je weet zeker dat ze dat daar niet [View Full Entry]

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A warning to the grandparents that may be reading this... there may be things that might shock you. 2nd January - our last day of holidays and back at work in a couple days... Arriving cheerfully early (midday) for Amsterdam we settled in at Bob's Youth Hostel. Pretty well located close to the train station with a 'Grasshopper' bar accross the road and a magical mushroom shop on the corner...selling mushrooms and marijuana and providing advice to those that may need it (i didn't need it.. but i was eavesdropping anyhow! ha!). Now, I had come through Amsterdam on a Contiki [View Full Entry]

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dont have much time and I´m sure you´d all rather be at the beach so I´ll keep this short, but basically love holland to bits! the food is fantastic and real, peole are cool, trains are cheap, you can ride everywhere on a bike, dadadada I could go on forever. At the end of the day if you havent been there, put it on your list of things to do and you wont be dissapointed. thank you so much Reit and Wim for having me and Paul stay for so long, and feeding us so well, we had a great time [View Full Entry]

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I'm so sad. Everyone is leaving. Most people have already left. some are already home. and we leave on wednesday morning. our apartment is pretty much packed up and it looks so bare. But even though i'm going to miss it here, i'm really excited about seeing everyone at home. i'm a little bit worried about how shelle's going to react. i just hope no one gets hurt. So. Last tuesday, keri sarah and i headed out to Fiumicino airport to fly to amsterdam. i hate flying. keri ended up with the worst flight experience though. she didnt get to sit [View Full Entry]

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So, we got back from amsterdam on Friday. I had a blast. It is such a cute city. Out of all the cities I've been to, this is the one I could really see myself living in. I feel like I get all the advantages of a city, but you still get a small town feel. The city is like Venice with lots of canals running through it. It was so nice to walk around. The weather wasn't bad either. It was supposed to rain the whole time but we didnt really get any, atleast not while we were out. Oh, [View Full Entry]

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Erin again, as usual... No well, look in all honesty I'm actually writing this from Dublin, but couldn't be bothered cramming in the Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin entries all into one. We got to Amsterdam again as it was getting dark, and armed with our trusty directions and enormous backpacks trundled off to our 4 star hotel. On the way we were solicited 3 times for various backpacker hostels and not once for drugs or hookers. On the net the description of the hotel had casually mentioned that it was "a short walk to the red light district". Of course this [View Full Entry]

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We had a 5:30 start this morning, but even so, our travellers were all ready to go 15 minutes ahead of schedule. Today we began our 16 day “Best of Europe” Cosmos Tour. We travelled by coach to Dover, where we hopped on the ferry to cross the channel into France. We spent most of the time on deck as we were blessed with another glorious day weather wise. Many were amazed by the ferry which had multiple cafes, shops, lounges and even a pinball parlour. From Calais, we spent some hours on the bus travelling to Amsterdam. There are 31 [View Full Entry]

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Hoi allemaal, Zoals beloofd zal ik jullie op de hoogte houden van mijn avontuur. Gister ben ik samen met Robert naar het amerikaanse consulaat geweest in Amsterdam. Ze hadden ons heel bang gemaakt en we hadden dan ook aardig de zenuwen toen we voor het 'vestingshek' van het stukje amerikaans grondgebied stonden. Het duurde erg lang om binnen te komen en door de detectiepoortjes / tassencontrole te komen. Maar eenmaal binnen was het zo gepiept. Ik moest wat formulieren inleveren en laten zien hoe ik deze 'trip' denk te gaan bekostigen en klein glimlachje naar de amerikaanse loketmedewerker e [View Full Entry]

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Hoi allemaal, Volgend bericht hebben de meeste van jullie al via mijn andere website gelezen, maar deze site kan veel meer foto's kwijt dan de andere. Daarom zal ik deze site gaan gebruiken en zullen jullie iedere keer dat ik een berichtje plaats via deze site een emailtje krijgen. De laatste voorbereidingen zijn in volle gang. Het consulaat wil alles van me weten: waar en met wie ik woon, of ik wel of geen terrorist ben, of ik mijn banden met Nederland kan aantonen om er zeker van te zijn dat ik niet in the States blijf hangen, echt ongelooflijk! Verder [View Full Entry]

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Amsterdam isn't a destination you immediately think of when considering a Christmas market tour - in fact, I doubt you'd think of it at all. The only reason we included it to our plans was because we came across some bargain Thalys fares, which meant we could travel from Brussels to Amsterdam and back for just £24. Neither Jasmin nor I had ever been to Amsterdam before; we thought this was an opportunity not to be missed. Thalys is a high-speed train run jointly by the Belgian, French, Dutch and German railways. Its network links Brussels with Paris, Amsterdam and Cologne. [View Full Entry]

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