Absolutely zero issues on the trip back home until we had to check back into the US.  Woke up on time, checked out promptly and caug…

Our alarm didn’t go off this morning.  Possibly a bad omen since we will need to push off early tomorrow to catch our flight home,…

Our fortunate run with good weather had run its course, and it was cold and windy Thursday morning, but we returned to the train stat…

A really advantageous thing about the Dutch railways is that you can jump on and off the line so long as you maintain your route (another h…

An excellent purveyor of Indian cuisine in Delft. We started with garlic nan, the first in years, and it was scrumptious! Kim ordered some tea that…

Damn the strippenkaart, damn the train schedule and damn the buses, for today we were tackling Amsterdam on foot (damn it!).  We would…

Just a few blocks beyond the Anne Frank House in Jordaan lies a terrific place to enjoy the Dutch version of pancakes…but not for breakfast! The P…

On to the seaside resort neighborhood of Scheveningen, via the tram where Rudolph taught us how to use strippenkaarten - a strip card you u…

Shuffling off to the train station Tuesday morning delivered quite a shock.  We needed to board an 8:40A train to rendezvous with …

The Bird Thai restaurant is a winner. It started as a take-away in 1993, but their tasty offerings led to success and a full service restaurant in 1…

Woke up Monday to a gently blaring elephant (one of the many fun alarms you can choose on your CitizenM touch pad) and took the tram in…

Back at the station we sat in the sun and waited for our stoptrain (only one per hour on Sundays so we had to wait a bit), but it was a gor…

This time we stayed aboard the entire way back to Amsterdam’s Centraal Station in the heart of downtown.  Talk about night and day, e…

A key reason we needed to meet up with Rudolph right away was to snag the Spring Tour tickets he so graciously picked up for us.&nb…

We loved Citizen M’s newest location in Amsterdam. It is a bit outside of downtown, but near the Museumplein and right next door to the Amsterdam …

So we complete the red eye and arrive in Brussels Saturday morning.  Getting in to the country is a breeze and after …

The venture is off to a miserable start.  We were supposed to leave Wilmington around 3PM this afternoon to hook up with a red ey…

Windmills and wooden shoes.  That’s what pops into my mind when I hear somebody refer to the Dutch, shamefully reinfor…