Provincie Noord-Brabant Travel Blogs - Page 3

My first meetup :-) It was just great!

During World War II, Breda, the city where I live, was occupied by the Germans. On October 29th 1944 the liberation was performed by forces of 1st Polish Armoured Division of General Maczek.   In Breda you find the Polish Military Cemetery. General Stanislaw Maczek (he survived the war) and…

I know Breda only from passing by on the highway heading Belgium and further down south in Europe. A comment on one of the pictures of TB marianne (reizenmar), and an invitation to come and work on that comment, put me in the center of the city Breda. Breda is located in the south of holland in the…

Back in the Netherlands for the rest of January before flying to Taiwan to learn about my new job and do some apartment hunting. Not much of consequence during this time...except one of the most incredible Super Bowls I have ever seen!  Way to Go, Steelers!!!

Efteling park; World of wonders!It’s a beautiful park wich is build around different fairytales and legends. Most of the fairytales are written by Hans Christiaan Andersen.Efteling History;In 1933 two priests, Father De Klijn and Father Rietra, have the idea of setting up a sports park at the sou…

After arriving home from Dublin, we had to hurry and get ready for our dinner reservations.  I was very excited to try this restaurant since the menu looked great and Brett raved about the quality of the food.  We managed to rest a bit (just to check emails and TravBuddy of course..LOL)…

Meet up #5 at the Efteling in Katsheuvel, the Netherlands. Also quite a lot of time eating and drinking in Tilburg, the Netherlands with the great group of Travbuddies who showed up for Devika's meet-up.

OMG! The alarm went off way too early this morning!  We had got home late the night before from Paris and we had to be up early to get to Amsterdam, which is about 1.5 hours from Brett's apartment to pick up Lynn (Bluemoonadventure), James (Pearcetoyou), and Julie (fjm1006) to start our countr…

What can I say...I miss her! It hasn't even been two weeks yet, and already I miss Erin.  The twenty-five days we spent together in December/January were incredible!  We've been talking on Skype, email, TB, etc. since then, but it's not the same!  My calendar is looking pretty empty…

Boekel is a town where nothing really happens, ordinary people with their everyday lives, most people not noticing the beauty of their surroundings. Every once in a while nature does an attemp to make the inhabitants of Mother Earth more aware its lustre. Real winters are rare in the Netherlands, …

In the Grave? How can he write a blog when he's dead, you might think. Well I'm not dead nor did I visit a cemetery.The NameTogether with my mother and my wife I went to Grave; a small historical place in the provence Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands. Grave get its name from the dutch verb 'graven' …

The Travbuddy meetup in the Efteling, Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands, on June 28th

Den Bosch wasn't somewhere I'd planned to back go to, but Michel and Edith invited me to dinner and i was proved happily wrong about the need for a return trip.  having over slept a little - it was the morning after Crossing Border and I'd sort of banged my head off of a wall on the way home, …

Tomorrow is the day Inge and I have been looking forward too since we decided to go travelling together. We are going to Finland!! I've known Inge since we were 10 years old and I think from the age of 12 Inge has been crazy about Finland, she wouldn't talk about anything that had nothin…

Mrach 14, 2009, way too early my alarm rang; getting dressed and like a good Dutch girl grap my bike and go to the station. There I took the train at 7.04 to Dordrecht, where I got onto another train taking me to Oudenbosch in Brabant. In Oudenbosch a friend was waiting to pick me up, so we could g…