Blogs from South Holland, Netherlands, Europe - page 39

Visited Toni at work today after a lovely night´s sleep in their loft. Woke up to rain on the window above my bed. Loving Den Haag. Couldn´t bring my camera in to take a picture of Toni in her robe and bib (this is the UN after all, they have rules), but it was awesome to see her at work. At one point they were cross examining some guy about where some bodies were buried and I was watching Toni working at her computer. I turned to my mom and said ¨Isn´t she cute?¨What can I say? She was. I´m so proud of her and can only expect more great stuff. We stayed for about twenty minutes and met her for a break, then headed off to find a place for lunch. Ended up in ... read more

I took the 45 minute EasyJet flight to Amsterdam yesterday, it was a rather frighteningly noisy plane, but we made it fine... It was beautifully sunny when I arrived and my friend Karen picked me up and drove me to her place in Rotterdam which is my favorite apartment in the world. Unfortunately we woke up to rain and its quite miserable in good northern european style... Lots of new about flooding in Bangladesh.... uh oh.... (sorry for the short and rather pointless post, just wanted to make sure my little brother got the link....) ... read more

For a place that really is really only open for about 8 weeks a year and especially if you love spring flowers, and more especially tulips, there's no place better than De Keukenhof not far from the village of Lisse, The Netherlands, southwest of Amsterdam. This remarkable park is transformed every spring into a dazzling, ever-changing display of tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, lilies, amaryllis, and many other flowers. There are also flowering shrubs, ancient trees and countless natural surprises, as well as themed gardens to explore and pavilions filled with displays, and of course, a windmill. A number of sculptures and other objects d'art can be viewed on a sculpture trail among the flowers throughout the park. The park has somewhere near 10 miles of trails and walkways among its 70 acres for you to ... read more

Our third and last day with Syliva, it was fun to take her to a place she had never been in all her years of Amsterdam - the Keukenhof Flower gardens which we were told were the largest flower gardens in the world. Sylvia had never been simply because its such a touristy thing to do, plus its only open very few weeks of the year so we were lucky to catch it on our trip. It turned out to be such a beautiful way to spend the day and not too touristy - much less crowded and great to wind down after Queens Day. The afternoon saw Craig go and play golf at Noordwijkse golf course while Sylvia and Kellie sat in a cafe on the beach and sipped Ice Teas and relaxed. Once ... read more

Nou… dat was me het dan wel weer. Dat was denk ik zo’n kleine 2 maanden geleden sinds de laatste update, veel te lang weer natuurlijk! Maar goed, daar hadden we dan ook een hele goede reden voor… hebben net een maand in Europa doorgebracht! We wisten het pas vlak voordat we zouden vertrekken, maar wilden het niet aan de grote klok hangen omdat we een aantal mensen wilden verrassen! Maar goed, een week of 3 voor vertrek kreeg ik dus te horen dat er een mogelijkheid was om voor 3 weken naar NL te gaan ter ondersteuning van het Nlse kantoor. Men had een nieuwe consultant aangenomen die moest worden ingewerkt, en daarnaast hadden ze een nieuwe klant waarvoor het systeem geconfigureerd moest worden. Men had niemand beschikbaar in Europa, en na verzoek aan overige ... read more