We woke up very early, and sadly had a rushed goodbye with Maarten and Yvonne who had been so lovely to get up with us before the crack of dawn. Lindsay and I caught a train to Arnhem, and from Arnhem a train to Frankfurt. From the train we could see snow on the fields [...]
Last Days in Holland.
January 31, 2010 – 2:21 pm
Our last weekend was spent in Oss, Elke and I decorated the Christmas tree.
After forcing the lights into submission Lindsay lay under the tree.
He lay there taking awesome photos while Elke and I had a lovely time decorating the tree.
Yvonne has some of the most beautiful Christmas decorations.
Stunning!
The next day was Castle day. After 1 [...]
Sinterklaas
January 17, 2010 – 5:56 pm
Eeek so behind, I doubt I will ever catch up on all this blogging. But I will try!
So… Sinterklaas!
We had Sinterklaas with my Uncle, Aunt and cousins, Jur, Marleen, Vince and Mick. It was a really lovely weekend.
Our first night we had homemade Pizza
Cooked in Jur and Marleen’s sexy new oven
Then we spent the rest [...]
Antwerp
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 [...]
Den Haag wit Kat
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 [...]
Scheveningen *now with added cold!
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 [...]
The Beginning of the End.
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 [...]
Barcelona via Madrid
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 [...]
Granada
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 [...]