Holland 2011

So I arrived back in Edmonton on May 22 to end a great trip. All my pictures are now up, still unorganized but I am working on that. I will rotate them and say where they are from. http://gallery.pfink.ca/Travel/Netherlands-2011/Netherlands/ And added a new gallery: http://gallery.pfink.ca/Travel/Netherlands-2011/Netherlands-2/ Some things we did from my last post: Went to Delft to see the town, delftware and a botanical gardens Visted some of Erin’s relatives in Alphen aan den Rijn...

We made it to Katwijk aan Zee by taking a train to Leiden and then a bus to the coast. We got our rooms in a nice hotel with an ocean view. We went for a walk along the sea. It has been quite windy here and cooler weather than we had before. The next day we went to The Hague by bus. We were now with Erin’s uncle and his girlfriend....

We managed to make it to Utrecht and found our hostel. Streets are always fun to find and when you have a big backpack on it gets even more fun. In Maastricht we did do the canal cruise which we weren’t overly impressed with but did another cave/tunnel tour in a different spot and it was excellent! The guide got to do the tour in English because there was only a couple from Quebec, us and a guy from Malaysia who lived in Australia....

Pictures are available here: http://gallery.pfink.ca/Travel/Netherlands-2011/Netherlands/ They are unsorted and will be changing as I update them Also see some of them below click link above for all ...

On Sunday we left Amsterdam and took a train ride to Maastricht. It is about a 2.5 hour train ride to the South East of Holland. It is in between Belgium and Germany. It is a very nice city and is very slow paced compared to the fast pace of Amsterdam. During the train ride we were in the wrong half of the train and it was splitting so at one stop we had to quickly run to the right part of the train and just made it in time....

On our second last day in Amsterdam we went on an hour long canal cruise that was a good way to see different parts of the city and get a little background on some stuff. There was a recording in Dutch, English and German. In the afternoon we went to the Anne Frank House. It was very well put together and had lots of info and original diary’s but was sad too....

My flights all went smoothly and early Wednesday morning a tired me was greeted by a tired Erin. It was really good to see her again. We planned what we wanted to do that day. Our first order of business was to get a train from the airport to Amsterdam Central. The airport has a train station that many trains go through, it took us a while to find the right train on the right track but we did eventually....

Well I get to go on vacation again. One more day of work then I am off to Holland on Tuesday. I am going with Erin and we will be there for close to 3 weeks. I look forward a lot to the trip and seeing Erin again. I will update my blog with what I have been up to and pictures when I can upload them.