January 11, 2010 – 11:23 am
One night we were sitting at Beer’s house with Katherine and decided… lets go Belgium tomorrow. We chose Antwerp. Within an hour we had booked trains and accommodation. Early the next morning we were on the train to Belgium. One and a half hours later we were there.
We arrived at the beautiful Antwerp station and walked [...]
January 2, 2010 – 6:35 pm
Yikes! I am so behind in my blogging (how unusual, I know).
Anyway… where were we?
While we were still in Den Haag, Beer went to Kenya for a week. Katherine, our friend from high school, who had just moved to London came to visit us for a while. She stayed with us at Beer’s house.
Her first [...]
December 27, 2009 – 2:53 pm
I interrupt the usual blogging for the traditionally late, Decates family Christmas card.
We all embarked on new adventures this year. Jacob started university in Canberra where he met his lovely girlfriend Geraldine. Julia and her brand new husband Lindsay spent most of the year travelling around Europe. (Read all about their adventures on this [...]
December 12, 2009 – 7:36 pm
Lindsay and I spent some days at Scheveningen.
We spent a few evenings walking on the beach
It was really cold.
So cold in fact that we found some ice bergs.
We spotted a jelly fish. Thats how cold it was even the jelly fish turned blue.
It was very beautiful despite the cold.
And during the day the sunshine [...]
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December 10, 2009 – 4:21 am
While Lindsay was in Ghent, I stayed in Oss with Elke.
My first night back in Holland Oma and Opa took us out to a lovely posh restaurant in Oss.
Again Oma was the only one to behave like a lady.
Opa and Elke ordered Dam Blanche for dessert.
Dame Blanche is vanilla ice cream with whipped cream [...]
December 10, 2009 – 3:45 am
We left Barcelona at the crack of dawn, and arrived in Montpellier (France) after sitting for 5 hours on the train. Hopping off the train we expected to head up to the ticket desk and reserve seats for the next leg of the trip, Montpellier to Paris. In Barcelona the lady at the ticket desk [...]
November 21, 2009 – 12:47 am
While we were in Barcelona, an old classmate of ours emailed, inviting us to visit her in Madrid. So we thought, why not? The chance to see someone from home and speak Australian English at a normal pace, e.g. super fast (we both speak really slow now so that people can understand us).
We caught our [...]
November 20, 2009 – 11:04 pm
Lindsay and I had a private room in Granada which overlooked the tourist district. It was the perfect location!
On our first day we decided to walk around the tourist areas before making our way up to the Gypsy part of town.
There were cats everywhere!
We walked along a creek, we looked up and could [...]
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Tagged alhambra, arabic, bathhouse, castle, fountain, granada, islamic, mosaics, palace, shopping, sick, spain, tea, water
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November 17, 2009 – 3:15 am
Lindsay and I spent 2 weeks in Barcelona. With a trip in-between to Granada. Our first week this is what we got up to:
Sangrada Familiara was only about 4 blocks away from our hostel.
It is rather magnificent! And constantly evolving.
Another day we decided to do a walking tour from our book of [...]
