Day 0 of our 34 day trip to India. I am writing this from our hostel room in Edinburgh, we’re staying in The Phoenix. I can basically see Edinburgh Castle from my window, which was amazing value compared to the hotels closer to the airport. I will put in a link to our review here tomorrow…
Amsterdamn!
Today Chris and I went to Amsterdam so we had to get up at 7am! First we visited the Van Gogh Museum. We didn’t have to queue for long which was nice and it had a very organised lay out so it was easy for us to work our way around the museum. It was…
Goats eat everything!
The weather was unusually nice today. My dad suggested we cycle to Boerderij ‘t Geertje instead of go to the museum today to take advantage of the nice weather. After packing a few sandwiches and two Appletinis we headed off to the farm. Cycling there felt a bit strange because it has been so long…
Say Cheese!
Today we had to get up bright and early (7am) so we could experience the cheese market in Alkmaar. It was the earliest I’d been up in months so I was a bit of a zombie but I recovered by napping in the car. We got there an half hour early and got a really…
Rainy day
We accidentally overslept. I guess the busy days took their toll. But we finally got up around 10 and made our way downstairs to print our route. It wasn’t until after we got the bikes we found out that it was going to rain all day. We decided against drowning AND getting lost and postponed…
Animals and poffertjes
Even though we are sleeping well we are still waking up pretty tired because we are doing so much. We are out 9 till 5, having adventures in the Netherlands is like having a full time job! After making lunch and kissing Donya goodbye we set off to Rotterdam Zoo. Getting there was a bit…
Tulip land
So today started with sandwich making for our adventure to Tulip Land – Keukenhof. This adventure was thanks to Hans and Marianne – they treated us poor students to a beautiful day out. The name translates on google to kitchen courtyard… this doesn’t really make sense and I am confused, there was probably an explanation…
Windmills and tragedies
Today was actually a pretty neat day despite the cold and windy weather. For some reason Megan gets really excited when she sees windmills and they were one of the things she really wanted to see here so we decided to go to Kinderdijk. Kinderdijk is a small village south of Zoetermeer that still relies…
Mother’s Day
So instead of celebrating Mother’s day in March the Dutch celebrate their amazing moms on the 12th May. This meant I got to meet more of the family – Chris’ brother Daan, his partner Mirthe and his son Tobin, Roel was there too. We spent most of the day relaxing and enjoying each others company…
Farm life and more Dutch food
Today we had an early start and headed to the farm after picking up breakfast from the bakery. We watched the cows get milked and then had coffee – me and Chris had to sing a chorus of ‘Oh Oh Den Haag’. Stadi, Sascha, Bella, Mona and Donya became my best friends when I was…
Emergency passport and first impressions
We left Dundee on the bus to start our adventure to the Netherlands, stopping at the Dutch Consulate to pick up Chris’ emergency passport but because of further muck-ups we had to go and take a fourth set of pictures and reprint our tickets. To recharge we stopped for fish and chips at the mall…
Forks in the Road 