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so today was our first day as IC6 C/Crew with Monarch Airlines. It was so exciting to meet everyone, they all seem to be very friendly. There are 15 people in our group, we just go through lots of security and ID stuff and get a chance to talk to everyone and make new friends! We start properly on …

Yes, I was definitely excited about the meetup in Dusseldorf that I didn't mind waking up at 4:30 in the morning (I slept at 1:30, what the $&&*$*?!) to catch that 6am train that leaves the nearest train station here, which is located from another town and walking there takes me at least&nb…

The first real day of our tour so we are up bright and early and down to breakfast, which turned out to be not much more than cold cereal, orange juice, and coffee. I think we were on the bus by 8am and were taken to the Rijksmuseum for a nice tour there.  We strolled through slowly and saw s…

All of us were looking forward to this excursion, for sure! Travelling around, getting to know some more regional surroundings and enjoying a few relaxing hours is one of the nicest and most welcoming thing about studying or working.   Lucky us, the weather cou…

I don't have much time these days to write a blog about the Meetup in Dusseldorf so I will do it later this week. I will only put some pictures on it right now so you all will be able to see what a great time we had! It's funny how this Meetup was planned to be a small one to say Bennie g…

This year, like every year, Sinterklaas arrived in Meppel by boat. Acually there were three boats, the first one with Zwarte Pieten, the second with Sinterklaas and more Zwarte Pieten, and the third with even more Zwarte Pieten! It always takes a while for the boats to enter the city as they have t…

As this was my first time in Spain I had some ideas about what the place would be like. Most of these turned out to be true. Now I know Seville is only a small part of the country but I will happily go back to see more of Spain, although I would not go back to Seville for the simple reason that I h…

The venture is off to a miserable start.  We were supposed to leave Wilmington around 3PM this afternoon to hook up with a red eye that delivers us to Amsterdam 8:35 Saturday morning.  Even though it is a beautiful day in North Carolina, there are t-storms in Philly and ground stops c…

  My SAS flight took off from Chicago within minutes of its 4:25 p.m. scheduled departure. I followed our progress on the small screen in the seat-back in front of me. We angled northeast along the Lake Michigan shoreline, crossed directly over the Mackinac Bridge, then proceeded over northea…

Just as in the last seven years, the same fabulous bunch of friends set course for the slopes. Yes, it is that time again. Our yearly skiing extravaganza is about to commence. Each year we drive to our destination, and this year is no exception. However, as we get older we no longer feel the need (…

about to leave on a flight to Bodrum. Snowy/rain in istanbul yesterday and snowing right now. cold. not much to do but sit around insıde. won in cards yesterday making my comeback, sorry phil!

I went pass Anne Franks 'House when I went to Amsterdam 10 years ago because the lines were just so long. But this time around I am determined to go in - if the lines are not too long. I mean some people claim Anne Franks Diary is just a big hoax so maybe it is not worth going? Then again the …

Durbuy is situated on two sides of the river 'Ourthe'. In the past, I went kayaking on this river. The many rapids make it an adventurous undertaking. In the last couple of days, a lot of rain has fallen as well as 10cm of snow, all of which has melted. This made the river run even more rapid. …

I always wanted to take some pictures from Arnhem from a different angle. This is almost impossible because all the places are private. So i had to look for a different way. Walking along the street close to the Rijn i met a very nice gardener, i told him what my idea was. He was willing to ask the…

Our delayed flight delivered us to Berlin after midnight. At that time we were supposed to sleep already. But no. Fortunately we got the S-Bahn train to our hostel with no changes. The ride from Schönefeld to Charlottenburg took one hour. In the way the train stopped in the middle of nowhere, ligh…