Travelogues North Holland

 April 27, 2029 Monday  Monday is King's Day. And this is the quintessential national holiday in the Netherlands. So, we first secured our spot until after Monday to avoid any...

Morelo Liner

I’ve been to Amsterdam a handful of times throughout my exchange so far. Unfortunately, I’ve been a little bit unlucky with the weather, and every time I go, it’s been so cold....

A final entry: We are tired but have landed very well in Holland. No showing of birth certificates 😉, neither in South Africa nor in Europe. Unfortunately, we were met with unplea

August 23, 2025 And once again, our big summer tour is upon us. This time, we are heading to CANADA 🇨🇦. For the next nearly three weeks, we will be driving through Easter

Hello, The next big trip is coming up, Brazil 😌 pretty uneventful journey, uneventful 1st flight and the 2nd flight is now approaching. There's no stress, our sandwiches taste...

Cheese market Alkmaar

We continued towards Hoorn over the Afsluitdijk, which connects the provinces of Noord-Holland and Friesland. The Afsluitdijk is 32 km long and is considered the most important...

August 18, 2024 Amsterdam

After a drive of about two and a half hours by car, we arrived in Amsterdam around 9:30 in the morning. Right up front: Parking in Amsterdam is really not cheap. We paid over...

Umpffff. What a day. 137 KM were definitely not planned.🥵 Sequentially. At first I didn't want to believe the signs in front of the dunes near Zaandvort saying...

Canal cruise and signature fries

December 2, 2023 I spent the first weekend of Advent in Amsterdam. Our accommodation with Gabrielle at Schlachthuisstraat 12 in Zandaam is an absolute recommendation. Such a...

Haarlem, probably the most popular shopping city in the Netherlands. And that's true, because there are pretty much all the shops here that the small towns otherwise only have...

We've arrived on time here... and now we're waiting for boarding for the big plane. Okay, waiting is today's motto :-))) We've been waiting for takeoff for quite a while now....

On this day, I slept in late and then went into the city without a proper plan, just to see what comes to mind. After walking around the city for a bit, I went to the NEMO...

Today we rented a car and did some exploring... First, we went to Amsterdam, but unfortunately there were no tickets available for the Anne Frank Museum, so we moved on. There...

I slept in late on this day, went to Aldi across the street to get breakfast, and then headed into the city. Since I missed the first city tour, I rescheduled for a later one...

Los ging's um 8 Uhr in der Früh, als ich aus dem Hostel auscheckte und zum Hamburger Hauptbahnhof lief. Dort stieg ich in einen Zug, der mich nach Bremen brachte, wo ich dann in...

Hello! This means: Good day, my dear! After a hearty breakfast at the recommendable hotel 'Kings Inbun' (Who would have thought?) - a former prison in Alkmaar - we headed south...

We stick to the cities with the letter A as the first letter. After breakfast - and a last tech talk with the Norwegian guest - yes, the one who wanted to pick up his bicycle...

Fridtjof: For the 4th day, we had planned to get up early. On the previous days, we had always driven from one place to another until around 12 o'clock. Greta: But that wasn't...

... and colorful flower fields create a magnificent carpet of colors

Church in the attic, shipping museum, and NEMO

To learn more about Amsterdam's history and life here, we signed up for a free city tour in the morning. Royal Palace It started at Dam Square, where our friendly guide...

Today the sun should shine and so we were happy that we had booked tickets for the Artis Zoo in Amsterdam for this day. in the Artis Zoo in Amsterdam After a short walk past...

Our third day in Amsterdam

We started the day with a walk from the train station to the Rijksmuseum. Canals in Amsterdam First, we went through the relatively small Chinatown in Amsterdam with many...

Travel by train with unplanned stops and detours

The first leg of the journey has been successfully completed. Despite the delay of the Dutch railway, I arrived at the airport on time and have checked in my luggage, gone...