Langedijk, Holland, Europe I had an absolutely brilliant day today! I got a great night’s sleep, woke up late, and had a few hours of relaxation time at Jacqueline’s house. She and Tim were off to work, so it was just me and their chickens in the back garden. I did some laundry, caught up on sports scores, and had time to just relax. It was really nice. Jacquelien took a half day and got back to the house around…
Langedijk, Holland, Europe I had an awesome day in the Netherlands. I was all over the place, but it was excellent! I had an awesome sleep at Jacquelien’s house, and then she was nice enough to give me a ride to the train station at Heerhugowaard to head into Amsterdam. I got into the city by about 10am and had a few hours to walk around the city. I’d been here before a few years ago, so today I just…
Langedijk, Holland, Europe I had a horrible night’s sleep in Hamburg. Between the other guys coming in the dorm at random times during the night, and me constantly waking up to make sure someone wasn’t stealing my stuff, I probably got about an hour of sleep. Finally at 6:30am I decided to just get up and get out of the room. As I was getting ready, another guy came into the room at like 7am. It must have been a…
Amsterdam, Holland, Europe Today we slept until about 11am. For both of us, the main effect of the Space Cake was to make us wicked tired. We felt like we had to get up an not waste our last full day in Amsterdam. Our first stop was the Van Gogh museum. It was interesting to see a lot of his work that he’s not as well known for. It is amazing to find out he only painted for 10 years…
Amsterdam, Holland, Europe Today we woke up to a rainy day for the first time on this holiday. Not bad considering we’d already spent 5 days in Scotland and The Netherlands. We walked around for 30 minutes before finding a place selling crappy umbrellas, so by that point we were soaked and the umbrellas seemed totally pointless. Regardless, we got the umbrellas and waited in line for Anne Frank’s house. We had to wait for a while, but it was…
Amsterdam, Holland, Europe Today had a well deserved easy start to it. We got to sleep late and then had nowhere to be until early afternoon. That was a very good thing for me since I hadn’t started packing yet, and Ryan’s suitcase seemed to have exploded in my flat. So we spent the morning getting ready to take off for mainland Europe stop #1: Amsterdam. We stopped in at the world famous Preacher’s Patisserie for lunch before heading to…