Blogs from Gelderland, Netherlands, Europe - page 12

Geo: 51.9425, 6.02767Well despite all the controversy with organising flights ive finally arrived back in the Netherlands. This time to explore more of the country and get to know my Dutch background and relatives. I touched town at Schiapol airport near Amsterdam around about two o'clock, and soon thereafter was greeted by my relatives; Jan, Joke, and Jonathan. They introduced me first hand to the terrible traffic this country has to offer, and ive just recently unpacked at their house, just near Arnhem. Ill be staying in Jojanekke's room until Sunday afternoon, when i have a flight booked for Paris. Its almost dinner time, and ill soon be meeting the third (and eldest) child of this family, Bram. Everyone seems really nice here, n im looking forward to the next few days. Ill chuck up pictures ... read more

After a lovely and nice wedding of my brother. The preparation for my second trip to New Zealand will begin. But to be honest it is all already done. Because I know where to go. And my stuff is alreadyy there. So nothing diffucult and really new. Only the bloody long flight and a short visit to Hong Kong. Which I am looking forword to(the visit of Hong-Kong ofcourse and not the flight). The wedding,the reason of my short break of my trip was. As told before a great succes. Perfect location and a good atmosphere. Great food with nice drinks. And we where so lucky with the weather. I don't have pictures. Because I did forget my camera and a few other small things. Thank god as comment. :"I did not forget to where clothes(what ... read more

In two days time I am finally going to start on my overland trip through Europe and Asia with Australia as ultimate destination. This week I spend most of my time preparing for the trip, buying the last essential things and researching part of my journey. Because until now I only knew that my first stop would be Cologne after that I only had a rough idea in my head of the route I would take through Europe. I have filled in the blanks for the rest of Europe and made a small calculation on the costs until Turkey, where things will become cheaper. But to keep things exciting I won't tell you my plans just yet, you will just have to keep looking at my website to find out where I am and what I ... read more

Amanda We spent the morning pottering around Haarlem for a bit, sampled some Dutch chocolates and I managed to buy myself another pair of shoes :) Then we had a 2 hour train ride to Nijmegen. We have finally arrived at the location for the wedding and caught up with Kelly and Douwe, the happy couple. It is 2 days before their wedding. We had a delicious dinner with their families and some friends. Travis was happy as he got to play with a 3 year called Tyra which involved much cutting of paper. I also helped out a little with some of the arty wedding preparations that were left to do. Travis mmmm Dutch chocolate... Nijmegen (pronounced 'nigh-may-gen') is one of two dutch towns which claim to be "Holland's oldest town", with Nijmegen supposedly being ... read more