Friesland Travel Blogs

Monday we went to Sneek with a few! On monday Iwent with the last people in to Sneek... First I had to sleep in and we meet-up at 12... I had some stuff with me cream brath with yellow cream and drinks.. We went all 5 in my car and went to the center of Sneek... We went to a shopping place were I …

Blog about the Friesland Meetup, August 2008

After so many stories about the first Friesland meet up, the one last year, I didn't want to miss the second Friesland meet up, organized by Wendy and Rowena. The girls did a great job with this meet up. Unfortunately I wasn't able to join from Friday to Monday. I decided to go to Leeuwarden on Sa…

Kitesurfing!

Meetup Friesland organised by Wendy and Rowena, thanks again. It was an amazing experience!

We drive to the kite surfing place in Wendy's car. On the way she asks me if I am nervous about driving with a woman driver without her drivers licence. She claims she has only misplaced her licence. But on the other hand she continuously talks about being flashed by speed cameras when she is d…

  At the last day after breakfast we left the campside on the Bergumer lake and we travelled through the beautiful landscapes of "Friesland"  to the lovely small village of Grou. Wim (my husband) always wanted a site caravan there on a campside. He always dreamt of having a sma…

After months of anticipation the day had finally come when I would go to my first TravBuddy Meet-Up. Organised by Wendy and Rowena a whole weekend of activities had been planned to coincide with the Sneekweek in Friesland, a province in the north of The Netherlands where they both live. Unfortunate…

Leaving the praamsailing, I was driving Micky and Matt back to the Eden Oranje.  Of course, as was the case on the way from the car to the praamsailing location, we had the drawbridge up and had a five minute delay before we got to the car.  In his best "Three billy-goat's gruff" troll-un…

Some pics of Wendy and Rowena's active Friesland meetup.

Pictures from Friesland weekend Kitesurfing and sailing

We don't have really great landscapes or worldfamous buildings.. but the Netherlands is a very nice country!

Summary of my travels since starting to travel for work in 2004. Three continents and three jobs later, this blog is an ongoing work in process. All locations are entered through present, will be adding descriptions and pictures as I have the opportunity. Please let me know if you see an entry without info you would like me to upload pictures for and I can take care of adding that location's items sooner.

The next day, we left the hotel in Delfstrahuizen early... well, we had to since check out was at 10am, and went on a little roadtrip along several small towns in Friesland. First stop was the cute little town of Sloten, about as big as your average handkerchief, but it had its 'harbor' and windmi…

Just came back home after 2 months, when i made these