Category: Netherlands April 2023
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England Day 3: Shopping and Eating in London
Hello whoever is reading this! Woke up to a glorious 4th of July today in London. It was 58 degrees and rained most of the day. Absolutely brilliant. But as one of the guides at Chatsworth house told us yesterday, “I mean it’s England, isn’t it, so it’s going to rain and you’re just just…
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London Day 2: Trekking to Chatsworth House and Gardens in search of Mr. Darcy
Day two began with a surprise: I woke up to my alarm. Usually on trips with bigger time zone changes I tend to wake up super early, which is part of why I planned this adventure for our first day in. However, dinner at Dishoom must have lulled me into a great sleep, because at…
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English Gardens!!!
Hey everyone! I’m back for another international adventure, this time heading to England to visit some English gardens, fancy manor homes, and sites associated with all things Jane Austen. my normal traveling buddy is staying home to keep our fur babies alive, so I am hitting the road with a friend. She has elected not…
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Netherlands Day 7: Celebrating a King and seeing A Girl With a Pearl Earring
Whelp, thanks to some noise canceling headphones we made it through King’s night and I actually slept ok. In the morning we got up and got stuff packed to head out to our next stop: Delft. We exited our houseboat with all of our bags, and I turned to close and lock the door for…
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Netherlands Day 6: A Market, the Anne Frank House, a canal cruise, and a street party
So, today was a bit of a mix of everything. It was our last day in Amsterdam, so we were more or less trying to shove everything we can into one last day. We also had a couple of pre scheduled things, so we basically just hodgepodged what we could around those. We started the…
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Netherlands Day 5: City, Shopping, and Rijksmuseum
Hello to another beautiful day! Ok, it wasn’t actually a beautiful day here, at least not weather-wise. Locals tell us the weather has been making the news in Amsterdam this week because it is colder and rainier than us typical for April here. Lucky us. Despite the weather trying to foil us, it was still…
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Netherlands Day 4: A Floral display in Deep Rain
Okay, what a day. What A DAY. Began a bit early by dragging myself out of bed somewhere around 5:15am. I don’t really know exactly when it was, just that it was still dark. Today was one of the days I was most excited for, because today was the day we were going to visit…
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Netherlands Day 3: Zandvoort and Haarlem
Hello hello! First full night of sleep! I was finally able to sleep until 6am, which is my normal time to wake up back home. I think I’ve finally adjusted. Unfortunately Jimmy is a day behind me, so he’s still working on it. He’s been waking up early, then going back to sleep and getting…
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Day 2: The sites of Amsterdam.
Ok, morning number 2 of my 9 hr time change. I was up at 3:30am. I’m somehow going the wrong direction with my sleep. On the upside, it was early Saturday morning and I could hear some revelers carrying on at the bar down the street, still enjoying the night before. I briefly wondered if…
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Netherlands Day 1
Hello to you! Another great day exploring. I started my morning off with a nice little espresso and a read before heading out. Jet lag meant I woke up at 5am, but nothing actually opens until 9 or 10, so I had some peaceful time watching the sunrise and reading a book I impulse bought…
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