Today was our last day in Amsterdam. Part of me is sad to be heading home, but mostly I’m relieved. It’s been a really long trip, and I miss my life back in Seattle.
We had the day free to do pretty much whatever we wanted, so I went to Bagel Espresso for breakfast, just up [...]
Read the rest of Netherlands: Last day in Amsterdam
Today was our last day in Rotterdam – definitely a little bittersweet. I’m glad we’re coming to the end of the trip, but the hotel has become very homey and comfortable over the last few weeks, and I’m a little apprehensive about moving to another city and another hotel. I’m also, just to be honest, [...]
Read the rest of Netherlands: Last day in Rotterdam
So as I got on the train at the airport to head to Copenhagen Center, I kept hearing the little man in the intercom saying something about this train ending at Elsinore. Elsinore, Elsinore, wait, yes, there’s that OTHER book about Denmark. Some English dude wrote it. Ends in death. A fair bit of moping [...]
Read the rest of Copenhagen, Day 3: Helsingør and Kronborg Castle
I feel a little bit bad and a little bit like a poser when I accept guide book recommendations on eateries. If I were a real traveler, one of the people who charges into the Australian outback armed with no more than a bowie knife and a flask of whisky, I’d be…well, I’d be dead, [...]
Read the rest of Copenhagen, Day 2 (cont’d): Dinner musings
Today I skipped the 85 kroner hotel breakfast in favor of wandering the streets in search of food. This worked out better than I had hoped, as just a block away was this wee hole-in-the-wall bakery (you will know the bakery by the sign of the giant plastic pretzel) where I was able, by dint [...]
Read the rest of Copenhagen, Day 2
I managed to perfectly time my trip this morning – trains pulled into the station just as I got to the platform until I got to Rotterdam Central, where I had a 25 minute wait, which gave me just enough time to use the bathroom and grab a sandwich and some juice. The juice turned [...]
Read the rest of Copenhagen, Day 1
Two of my classmates had an entirely frumptious wheeze. People would get into groups of three, contribute 5 Euros to the kitty, and go forth to the Tuesday market, where we would endeavor to assemble the craziest, awesomest outfit we could put together. One member of the group would don this outfit and “strut her [...]
Read the rest of Netherlands: Guerilla Fashion Show
So we’ve all been burning our candle at both ends a little bit—okay, a lot—and wanted a nice quiet night in. Our professor had brought his banjo (apparently it’s a critical part of his sanity routine, which explains so much) and L.M. had brought her guitar; quite a lot of my classmates had brought their [...]
Read the rest of Netherlands: Wine, women, and song
We spent Saturday in a Dutch national park, “De Hoge Veluwe”. It. Was. Awesome.
The Dutch national obsssion with bikes apparently led to the creation of this park, which is, admittedly, out in the back of the beyond and requiring two separate bus trips (one of them very, very long) out there. Then this wee little [...]
Read the rest of Netherlands: Kröller-Müller Museum
Today we left for a weekend excusion to Arnhem, with exciting bicycle complications. A group of people wanted to bike part of the way, a few (a very few) wanted to bike the whole way, and some of us were lazy and just wanted to take the train. I fell into that last category.
So the [...]
Read the rest of Netherlands: Inappropriate propositions and appropriate vegetation