My Travels Around The World
April 2013
Day 18: Brussels (Friday, April 5, 2013)
So I ended this trip the way I started it: exploring a foreign city by myself. Dan had to go back to Gent for an [...]
Day 17: Bruges to Gent to Brussels (Thursday, April 4, 2013)
The hotel owner in Bruges (Paul - we found his place on PurpleRoofs.com, too) honored our request for an early breakfast and we left at [...]
Day 16: Bruges, Part 2 (Wednesday, April 3, 2013)
We are definitely ready to come home, especially Dan who came out 6 days ahead of me for work. And, he just learned he will [...]
Day 15: Bruges, Part 1 (Tuesday, April 2, 2013)
We did so many little things today I am not even going to attempt to write about each one. The reader can go to Trip [...]
Day 14: Amsterdam to Bruges (Monday, April 1, 2013)
We left the Amsterdam apartment about 7:30 this morning, and got to our Bruges hotel around 2:30. We were scheduled to leave at 7:55 but [...]
March 2013
Day 13: Amsterdam, Part 4 (Sunday, April 1, 2013)
We are still in "take it easy" mode. That's allowed on vacation, right? It was nearly 10 by the time we decided to get up [...]
Day 12: Haarlem – Saturday, March 30, 2013
Another light-ish day. I think we're both feeling the pace a little bit. Not that I'm complaining! We come home a week from today and [...]
Day 11: Amsterdam, Part 3 (Friday, March 29, 2013)
We were both so tired last night from a week or more of 7 miles a day on foot on average we decided to take [...]
Day 10: The Hague (Den Haag), Thursday March 28
The Hague is the 3rd largest city in Netherlands, about 37 miles southeast of Amsterdam on the North Sea. It is home to the International [...]
Day 9: Amsterdam, Part 2 (Wednesday, March 27, 2013)
We had breakfast in the apartment, got an earlier start because we wanted to get to Anne Frank close to when it opened at 9am, [...]
Day 8: Amsterdam, Part 1 (Tuesday, March 26)
We slept in again and took our time with breakfast in the apartment. We had picked up a few things in the grocery store last [...]
Day 7: Cologne to Amsterdam (Monday, March 25,2013)
It was a slow day in Europe today :) We spent a couple of hours at the Cologne Cathedral this morning. The photos (in yesterday's [...]
Day 6: Cologne (Sunday, March 24, 2013)
A normal early morning, we went down for breakfast around 7:30. The scrambled eggs were cooked in bacon grease, a specific taste I haven't had [...]
Day 5: Koblenz, Part 2 (Saturday, March 23, 2013)
We slept in until 8:45am which is really late for us. Dan has been working so much, so hard, for so many months, I was [...]
Day 4: Koblenz
Koblenz, derived from the Latin word for "confluence" - appropriate since it sits on the banks where the Mosel River merges with the Rhine. With [...]
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