Tag: amsterdam
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The Day of the Tulip 🌷
I could not have picked a better day for my visit to Keukenhof Gardens. Slouching around Amsterdam on Thursday in the endless, pouring rain, I’ll admit it was hard to stay positive at all times. But yesterday? Blue skies, sun, and even a chance to remove my coat! Keukenhof is a sprawling manicured garden filled…
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Sunflowers, Stroopwafels and Stripper Poles
The queue for the Van Gogh Museum this morning was pretty streamlined considering it’s the home of some of the best ever works from this Dutch icon, the museum itself perfectly set up for a seamless experience. I first headed to the lockers with my bag. These were fully digital and very secure, only opening…
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To Zaanse Schans and Beyond
I stayed up later than I’d planned last night meeting and chatting with all the amazing girls in my hostel dorm, but even so, drifting off to the calming sounds of the nearby church bells, I still knew that despite the exhaustion and early start, today would be a good one. Just how good I…
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Hallo Amsterdam!
I idly watched tiny droplets of moisture licking at the plane’s wings as cotton wool clouds and sparkling sunbeams made way for a sea of green and grey, followed by a seemingly-endless taxi along the runway and a painless passage through Immigration. Almost as soon as we’d left the UK, I was here, in Amsterdam…
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What happens in Amsterdam…
29/04/2018 Plans to hang out by the canals were derailed yesterday thanks to unfortunate bad weather. Almost as soon as we’d taken the above photo, the heavens opened, forcing us to surrender to it. I am naturally used to rain and cloud, but it wasn’t what I really wanted to see on the continent. Still,…
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Amsterdam and Kings Day madness
28/04/2018 On Thursday, I set off with a bunch of strangers on the long road trip over to Amsterdam. As suspected, my nerves were for nothing and the meeting people aspect went fine. However, basically, everything else went a little wrong, though we all still tried to make the best of it. In the end…
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