Netherlands

DRAFT Phew! What a trip, What a holiday! We saw amazing things, we had great experiences, and we aren't ever doing anything like it ever again! (See the second part of this entry linked here for all the reasons) This was the final part of a

It was 2023 and life seemed to be back to some sort of normal at last. We were able to think about filling in the gaps of our aborted 6 week long Interrail trip planned for just the moment the pandemic hit in 2020. The gap this holiday was designed

This is a retrospective report (by 7 years) of a very successful & happy trip we took in April & May 2017. This involved a couple of extremely long travelling days that I would not contemplate doing now. It was also before my wife really

I've realised that our main trip of 2024 to Germany by way of the Netherlands is split over a number of posts and there's no straightforward description of the whole journey. It was a great trip with no major disasters - a couple of lessons learned,

I was awake before the ferry docked at Harwich, but that wasn't a problem as it gave me time to reflect and get my bearings. As usual we were turfed out of our cabin smartish upon the car decks being opened - no time for a leisurely start really. I

My phone has been misbehaving - so I took the drastic step of transferring the Interrail passes to my wife's phone. She's now in charge! I couldn't get it to charge overnight and although it appeared to charge while we were at breakfast I couldn't

That was an entertaining half hour! We don't follow football but we're aware of the Euro tournament that's on at the moment. We decided to eat this evening in a local bar in Hook of Holland (The Harwich) and the footie was on the big screen. Georgia

After a rotten night's sleep we were awake and had the coffee machine on before our B&B host had delivered breakfast. Somehow we managed to get up and ready in - for us - record time. The effect of that was that we got to Amsterdam in plenty of

We had a really good meal at Casa Di Papi yesterday evening followed by their homemade Limoncello - I rarely drink alcohol so it was a bit of a surprise (in a good way!) We slept very well, only really coming to life when our host knocked on the

We had a generally good night on The Pride of Hull although inexplicably I had an upset stomach in the night. This settled by mid morning. Breakfast was good although I saved some of my Continental Breakfast for a later snack. I cannot understand