Tag: netherlands
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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…