Blogs from Netherlands, Europe - page 386

What can I say, now that I've had a taste of combining blog entries into one big lazy smogasbord of adventure, I'm hooked. Besides, stop being so selfish...wouldn't you rather me have a good time than spend a bunch of man-hours chronicling it for just for you? The answer to that one was yes, by the way. Anyways, another good weekend hanging out, but with no travels on the agenda. Friday was chill, just some beers at the English pub called The Fiddler and then on to a dance club called Havana. The usual suspects included Eugene, Geoff, Shruti, and her friend Goulistan (did I spell it right?). We found that imitating other really bad dancers was way more fun and less embarassing than creating our own really bad dance moves. I also found out that ... read more

HAy there soryy theres no photos as yet but I forgot the USb cable . We have only been on the road 4 days but it feels a life time since we left London. The weather has been kind to us and weve managed to stock up on plenty of wine and beer in France for the long northern journey through sweden and Denmark. It takes a bit of getting used to but I think ive gotten the hand of driving on the wrong side of the road and only had one near miss so far. Jos doing a great job on the navagation side and weve managed to have only 25 arguments about which way too go , so in all not bad !! Actually the roads so far have been easy . Our first ... read more

Given the vast amounts of hate mail/get to the point man messages I've gotten; instead of doing a day by day account of each beer sipped and each cigarette Sung smoked, here are the remaining highlights from our time in Amsterdam. Heineken Brewery Tour After prefunking at another bier cafe (I loved that we prefunked on our way to a brewery tour) we headed with John and Jill to the Heineken factory for a self guided tour and the grand pay off: According to Sung, we'd have 1 hour to drink all the Heineken we could consume. Oh joy of joys! The tour itself was rather underwhelming. Basically if you've seen the intro to Laverne and Shirley you've seen most of the tour... add a few stale beer making exhibits plus some skunky smelling furniture and ... read more

We arrived in Amsterdam late yesterday afternoon. Dylan joined us in Paris safely at Gare du Nord. (Mama duck, Jeanette, took a sigh of relief that we were all in the same place at relatively the same time) As we exited the station, Jeanette, like a true backpacker, tripped and was taken down on the cobblestone with her 35 pound backpack. I haven't had a skinned knee or elbow since I was like 5. Oh well, it had to happen sometime. I just wish it wasn't in rush hour traffic and at a street crossing. The boys definitely love it here, for reasons more obvious than I am wanting to explain. I for one, was excited for the Van Gogh museum and the Anne Frank museum. The canals became a bit confusing last night, as we ... read more

In the last week of April I was driving listening to the radio in Ireland. A garden expert was talking about some strange garden in Amsterdam, Netherlands called Guekenhof (Keukenhof). He extolled it dearly. It was May bank holliday weekend, I had not other plans. So I packed up my bags and went to visit Keukenhof. Flew by Rayan airways to Eindovan airport. Unfortunately 31st of april is Queens day and the whole of Netherland goes crazy, celebrating their queen. That means 3 hours extra wait in the bus stand for the Amsterdam connection ! while in the airport met this wonderful Korean girl Mira. Such a pleasant and lovely girl who really captured my goodness. She was a backpacer and just like any other backpacker - she was travelling on shoe string budget. During the ... read more