Stavoren Travel Blogs

It was about time that there is a meet-up in Friesland in the Neherlands... It,s going to begreat and already 30 people comfirmed! We are doing a lot water actities.. What is Friesland without watersport and sailing.... Rowena my friend is going Kitesurfing with a small group and I Praamsailing! Fr…

Active weekend in Friesland!

This was my first TB Meet-Up. Unfortunately I couldn't be there for the whole weekend but had a great time sailing on Sunday!

The sun is up on the way out on the lake and the big highlight of the sail is the secret Frisian yummies - which we have all heard so much about the last few days - but nobody really know what it is. It turns out it is a sort of cake thing and yep it do taste pretty yummy.   Out in …

The Morning during day three! I my alarmclock went off at 06.15 in the morning..... I was realy tired and I had two hours sleep that night! Rowena and Ket were at my place helping me out afther the showers! I had to put everything in my car for the catering on board! The night before and the morin…

At twenty to eight on Sunday morning, therefore, we had a rendezvous at the Campanile Hotel to sort out how we were going to get to Stavoren, the harbour where our clipper, the Lena Adriana, was berthed: some of the Eden Oranje crew were going by train as the train station is right opposite their h…

Based on the decision to go to bed at a decent hour last night, I was still able to wake up with more than enough time before the meeting time for today's trip to Stavoren to start the boat trip.  Cleaned up and headed downstairs to catch up on the online addicition, then wandered over to sit …

The Hanseatic league was a group of cities which formed an alliance to maintain a trading monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe. There are several of these cities in The Netherlands and as they are so beautiful I thought I would share my visits to them with those of you who are interested. It is a work in progress...

A daytrip to Sneek and Stavoren, Friesland, The Netherlands

This is mainly a meta-blog; a blog with links to all the blogs (and photos) of the TravBuddy Meetup in Friesland on 2-3 August 2008, organized by Wendy (wendyveer). Some photos included.