The Hague Travel Blogs - Page 3

Mariska, (Beeey) had a birthday on Oct 13th and I looked at her profile photo and thought, I could give her a gift by changing her shot. I downloaded the shot and did a little lighting and color changes.  I hope she is happy with the outcome.  Happy Birthday!!   If this is a photo…

After I had breakfast i decided to go to another theme park called Duinrell, the main reason I wanted to go here was for the ride Splash. My first impressions were not very good, the layout of the park seems poor compared to de Efteling and there were massive queues for everything which i didn't ha…

One day in The Hague Just some pics

Here it is at last! My first travel blog on TB of my recent trip to The Netherlands (My first and certainly not last trip out of the UK) A few photo's initially.......comments to follow shortly :-)

I finally have got a little clue about den haag so ill add some pictures and text and recommendations soon ;)

A couple of times a year me and some buddy's of mine organize a game weekend. The object of that is that we get some gameconsoles, buy a lot of beer and food. So you have your Wii and your beer and after a while everything is funny. We started playing arround 15:00 and played until 01:30.One of my …

me and my friend took a daytrip here and it was alright. the city is very commercial and not as pretty as amsterdam. my first impression is that the atmosphere is kinda stuffy, not down-to-earth and homey. we decided to go to a bar for a drink and we were surrounded by suits everywhere, definetl…

November 12 I arrived late at Tijs with Maikel we talked for a while before he left back and the time was being to go to sleep in his appartment of Scheveningen. So I prepared myself my mattress and the sleeping time was welcome after the previous week end where I was pretty hang over in the morni…

When I told my grandmother I would be spending time in Holland, she kept raving about when she was here in the 1950's and how much she loved Madurodam.  It took me a few visits to Holland, but on this visit I finally found my way to Madurodam with Doug and Mike, two colleagues from Connecticut.

As promised to another TravBuddy, here's a photoblog of some Dutch beaches. When one thinks of the word 'Beach', quite often images of warm summerdays come to mind. However, I think a beach is beautiful year round. Therefore I will make pictures throughout the seasons and post them here. All of the…

Vandaag de laatste voorbereidingen getroffen. De koffer is bijna ingepakt.Het merendeel van de ruimte wordt in beslag genomen door de lego F1 voor Jingyu. De rest moet er maar tussen gepropt worden. Ik weet niet of de boeken er nog in kunnen en het pannenkoeken pannetje. Het pak met pannenkoeken me…

I consider myself an easy traveller. I tend to travel light, pack as little as I can. But, because it's my sister's wedding, I have to take more with me than normal. With only 15 hours before departure, I still haven't packed my bag. My wife is getting nervous. My motto is: "whatever I forgot to br…

The Hague is the seat of government and the 'old capital' of The Netherlands. Also it is the home of our Queen Beatrix who lives and works in The Hague. All foreign embassies and government ministries are located in the city. It the third largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterd…

Het is koud. Translation...it is cold (as in I am FREEZING).

We,ve had a nice weekend with ice climbing and dinner and snowboarding!:)