Europe Travel Blogs - Page 16

These are photo's of the second home of friends of us in a hamlet near Periers where we always stay when we're going to Normandy on vacation. Periers is a small village which lies in the department Manche. Manche is a French department in Normandy named after La Manche ("the s…

It's 5.15 o'clock. Let's go! I'm late for about 15 minutes (i wanted start at 5 o'clock), but i maybe manage it to the 7.21 train. I drow my little lovelly Astra to Berlin airport - it was saturday morning so the traffic was almost none - i managed it from home to Berlin in two hours and something …

I just touched down about an hour ago. The plan ride on Turkish airlines from Singapore to Istanbul was alright. The landing was so smooth that the passengers broke into an applause. Is this a common occurence or is it just the Turks? Anyway, I was rather lucky to have gotten a seat beside a n…

My last few hours in Amsterdam! I woke up ver urly...hihi, for a change haha...less sleep....I had to pack....I had to check out before 09.30, I think.....I had a nice breakfast.....Whooooo. Later on I saw Ante again....I sat with him during uor last breakfast.....On a nother table were a group of…

This all came about because of me watching a romantic comedy in November 2008. I think it was P.S. I Love You, but whatever it was it took place partially in Ireland. I'd never been to Ireland. And I loved the footage in the movie and the big softie that I am with movies like this immediately had m…

Private meet up.  The information that Jan gave us is about the history of Kampen. It seems that Kampen is first named in the year 1227, but in the main church they found out that it was already existing in 1200. So maybe even older. (once there had been an Roman Church). Kampen became a Han…

Enter the P-mate, this info taken straight from the website:www.p-mate.com Every woman, young or old, will recognize one or more of the following situations in which she has to pee urgently: There's no toilet available. There is a toilet, but it is so dirty that you'd rather prefer to hold your …

The next morning I got up early (at 8) took a shower and went to the Aquarium. To get there I had to cross the bridge in the harbour. The area overthere was very nice. It had a nice shoppingcentre and it took my quite a while to get across the bridge since it was so pretty there! I took a lot of pi…

Turkuazoo is the largest aquarium in Istanbul that situated in the area named Bayrampasha. It has been completed few weeks ago . In spite of that many people go there and attract people with it unusual and plenty beautiful types of fish.To reach that place you should take a metro line Aks…

Yesterday (26-01-2008) we had a great Meetup in Amsterdam! But first I had to get there. I left home at 9.00 am and after a 1,5 hour trip by train, talking with some old granny's all the way, I reached Amsterdam! I met Ket (Pitt-Cruise), Nienke and Wendy to see some things in A-dam f…

Every cloud has a silver lining and our cloud happened to be filled with an all you can eat, complimentary breakfast.  I needed something to raise my spirits since I was deprived of my usual cup of tea the previous afternoon. One of the best people watching locations, aside from an airport, i…

Meetup in the beautiful city - Delft.

We woke up pretty late - some had already absolved the bath in the river - and this without telling me a word!!! Jerks! I wanted to swim as well! Ok i will do this later in the day. Maybe i could fall into the water unexpected - or we find some nice place for swimming on our way.   T…

I guess my first real inspiration to start travelling came from Michael Palin. His programmes, but even moreso his books have been quite a source of inspiration for my travels (and my writing). This is commonly known as the "Palin effect" and not unsurprisingly many of the destinations he visits ex…

The weather forecast was showed sun with only a few clouds and I just had to go to Mount Hananipa. Mount Hananipa is sitated 714meters above the Sørfjord , which isnt a spectacular fjord, but the views are nonetheless stunning. You can drive upto 350meters and have to walk from there. To the place…