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Moment of Reflection

We wake up early for our good-byes, send our stuff to Doorn with the contingent headed there by car, and then walk through the rain to a diamond dealer for my sister, who we count on to make all our jewelry, and to the Anne Frank house for the kids, by way of some souvenir store. I head to a...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on June 24, 2007 from Amsterdam, Netherlands
from the travel blog: Heaven

Steile Bank

This is the Steile Bank, the boat and crew that has supported us on our bicycle trip. "Steile" means "steep" and "Bank" has all the meanings in Dutch that it has in English. The boat is owned by Albert and Anina Koers, a couple that has been sailing together for most of their long marriage. ...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on June 24, 2007 from Spakenburg, Netherlands
from the travel blog: Heaven

Ouch

It is raining when we wake up, it rains through breakfast, and it is raining as we finally start out on our bicycles. We wind out of town behind Bram, most of us on 7 speed upright bicycles of a rather classical Dutch style, the kids on 3 speed models, and the youngest on a 1 speeder. Bram has...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on May 30, 2007 from Hoorn, Netherlands
from the travel blog: Heaven

Hospital

By the time we get to Enkhuizen, Polly is feeling nauseous and we need another plan. I'm kicking myself that I let her continue biking, plant her in a café and go looking for the boat without success. It is about 45 minutes since the accident, raining now. I ask for a doctor, but find there...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on May 30, 2007 from Enkhuizen, Netherlands
from the travel blog: Heaven

We begin our bike trip

The horizon is a straight line, the land a mere smudge, and the sky immense. You grow self assured here, I imagine, or feel very inconsequential under a sky this large, a clue perhaps to the Dutch character. It keeps dumping rain on us, then plays gray, then teases us with blue sky. In the...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on May 30, 2007 from Amsterdam, Netherlands
from the travel blog: Heaven

Youth

Rested and ready, we drive over to show Mia the house I lived in as a child. My dad's sister lived in it for 40 years after we left Holland for America, and when she died three year ago, my mother sold the place. I remember a brown brick rowhouse, the corner unit with yard on two sides and a...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on May 30, 2007 from Maarssen, Netherlands
from the travel blog: Heaven

Clouds

We arrive in Hoorn in late afternoon, eat dinner on the boat, and then take our bikes out for a 15 km. trial run. The sky clears a bit, and becomes a spectacle, and we stop just to bear witness as if this were some religious event. Possibly it is. The bikes and the kids perform...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on May 30, 2007 from Hoorn, Netherlands
from the travel blog: Heaven

Schiphol

I remember or imagine feeling the plane taking off and later touching down, but in truth registered nothing until we emerged from the gate into the terminal at Schiphol. Tulip bulbs and Dutch accents and beautiful advertising graphics and endless moving sidewalks: just as I remembered it. Not...

permalink written by  roel krabbendam on May 24, 2007 from Amsterdam, Netherlands
from the travel blog: Heaven

Departure Bergeijk, the Netherlands

3 guys a girl and a volvo, what can go wrong?

permalink written by  joris76 on May 16, 2007 from Bergeyk, Netherlands
from the travel blog: Vacation in Italy 2007

Thuis vervoer plannen voor in Thailand

De vrije tijd die ik tussen het afstuderen en het vertrek heb gebruik ik om onder andere te kijken hoe je in Thailand van A naar B komt. Waarbij ik er voornamelijk probeer achter te komen hoe je van het vliegveld naar het hotel en van Bangkok naar Chiang Mai komt. Het Suvarnabhumi vliegveld...

permalink written by  markvakantie on March 30, 2007 from Utrecht, Netherlands
from the travel blog: Thailand 2007

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