Amsterdam Travel Blogs - Page 3

Our alarm didn’t go off this morning.  Possibly a bad omen since we will need to push off early tomorrow to catch our flight home, but I’d like to consider it reinforcement of our approach to this voyage.  We had destinations each day, but never a rigid timetable to satisfy. …

Uuuuughhh, the morning definitely came too soon but thanks to Brett using his "pull" HAHA, we got late check out...4pm!  SWEET!  We ordered room service so I got my breakfast in bed I've so been wanting! YEAH!! We lounged around and just chatted until we started talking to people about me…

I think it would be the best to start from my last memory of the meetup in Amsterdam. I find it that Hanif Kureishi says it best in Intimacy when he opens with It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back. That thought went through my mind while I was going back to the Steyokey hos…

December 31, 2008, 9 am  -  I woke up ready for the last day of the passing year. It is always that exciting.  High time to finish in one day everything you haven’t done this year and evaluate results. And also a bit sad. Like saying good bye to someone who was with you for a long …

With my sugar-kLumpel we left our christian hostel in the middle of the sin-district after breakfast and headed off for see the canal-town;)We went first to see this "I AM STERDAM" sign. Then we were freezing and freezing trying to reach by metro the port... but after we got there it was too far to…

I had breakfast again and left at 10 o’clock for the Vondelpark. It was less then a 5 minute walk. I took a lot of pictures there while walking around the park and headed back to the station. I remembered that Johan told me that there is also a flower market, which was closed last night, so I saw…

When i woke this morning, i felt a bit better, but still a bit cold. Thinking: If i can't go, Alex could take over the Idols meetup and you guys have fun tonight. But i pushed myself to go! Ate some bread and packed my stuffs, coz i was meeting Alex in the train to Amsterdam!!! When we arrived…

The last day was pretty uneventful...we had a last breakfast in the hotel, went to the train station to get a ticket for a train to the airport, then went out for some very quick souvenir shopping.  Then it was time to say goodbye to Wendy and head home.  What an awesome trip and what won…

I didn't knew what to expect since it was my first meet-up but it's been a great experience! I'm already looking forward to the next one! Oh yeah, this blog can be concidered as mine and Sylvie's as she didn't used her own camera because her pics weren't looking clear enough. So she decided to use my camera as well :)

Before RJ 'catch the plane ride' to Europe, he told me he had planned for a round Europe trip end of 2008 and would make a stop in Amsterdam before new year for a mini meetup! That is really fantastic, I'm looking forward for that!Just few days before he arrived, we contacted and he said, the meetu…

Hey everyone, this has been my last weekend in Amsterdam and thanks to some very special people it was unforgettable! Every Friday should be: Poker Friday! I have finally almost sort of learnt how to play poker! I had such a good time with Nic and his friends that we didn't get to bed until about 2…

I have a wonderful mental picture of Amsterdam I will never forget & a few Fuji Film S8000 fd pictures- 2 day total, a ridiculously low 48.  Two days in Amsterdam spent with zero thoughts of how this or that would fit into a blog, how to caption a picture as to location.  I have spent…

Everybody thought I was crazy traveling to Amsterdam by myself.  But boy did I have fun!  I didn't know anybody when I arrived there.  Within a few hours, I had a crazy crew of 5 Irish and one Canadian new buddies.  Although the Irish guys flew in from Ireland just for the conce…

Well I wasn’t going to write a blog for this (mainly because I can’t remember half the stuff that happened!), but seeing as though most people have made an effort (some as soon as the meet-up was over i.e. Lauro and Hanie!), I thought it only fair if I documented my side of the story…:S &nbs…

My first full-day in Amsterdam after returning from my short trip to Madrid. I slept in and did not leave the house until near our meet-up time. A mini-meetup of:I.) A Filipino-speaking, English language-hating, German-language teaching Pole,II.) A Filipino-Australian architect based in Las Vegas, …