Came back from Denmark Tuesday night, had an awesome week!
Stina & me were totally spoiled by her parents and aunt&uncle, the weather was better than the weatherguy was telling us & i even ran into an ex-colleague in Skagen, it's a small world :-D
For those of you not on facebook, you can see my Denmark photos here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=51600&l=b0a9e&id=527521078
The good thing with facebook photo-albums is that you can just click on the photo to get to the next one.
And then there's also some good news about my favourite 7-year-old, his braintumour turned out to be benign which is of course the best news you can get in these cases.
Right now they're not going to do anything against it actually except checking it regularly of course. Still freaky that he has this thing in his head & you don't know what's going to happen in the future but right now it's such a relief that he can just continue playing football with his friends!
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Friday, August 15, 2008
Sunday, August 03, 2008
I'm off...
for about a week to Denmark that is!
Will be in Copenhagen first, then somewhere near Skagen, back to Copenhagen some time next weekend & then in Helsingør. Will hopefully come back a bit tanned, very rested & all zen.
My thoughts will be in NL a lot though, especially on Tuesday when it's D-day for a certain family in Gouda...hoping, praying & wishing!!!
Will be in Copenhagen first, then somewhere near Skagen, back to Copenhagen some time next weekend & then in Helsingør. Will hopefully come back a bit tanned, very rested & all zen.
My thoughts will be in NL a lot though, especially on Tuesday when it's D-day for a certain family in Gouda...hoping, praying & wishing!!!
Thursday, October 25, 2007
back at stina's
very soon at least!
leaving for copenhagen early tonight, will be back nov 5th...it's gonna be great it's gonna be great!
leaving for copenhagen early tonight, will be back nov 5th...it's gonna be great it's gonna be great!
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
still alive...
had a nasty flu last month and made this trip to barcelona, but that's no excuse i know.
barcelona was great! it was nicely warm, it was a great wedding, there were lovely people and there was a major party going on in town that weekend :D
here's a couple of pix of the wedding day to start with;
1st is marèse & me ready for the big event,
2nd is jenny & trygve very excited after just having said 'i will',
3rd is jenny & trygve & the wedding cake (it was delicious, like all the food that evening!)
more pix will follow friday/this weekend, who knows i'll even update it with pix from hong kong (that was july) and stockholm/norway (that was july/august)...wohooo!
barcelona was great! it was nicely warm, it was a great wedding, there were lovely people and there was a major party going on in town that weekend :D
here's a couple of pix of the wedding day to start with;
1st is marèse & me ready for the big event,
2nd is jenny & trygve very excited after just having said 'i will',
3rd is jenny & trygve & the wedding cake (it was delicious, like all the food that evening!)
more pix will follow friday/this weekend, who knows i'll even update it with pix from hong kong (that was july) and stockholm/norway (that was july/august)...wohooo!
Saturday, July 28, 2007
sydney - hong kong - amsterdam - oslo
leaving australia after 3 months was strange, arriving in the madhouse that's called hong kong was even weirder especially since it was one hot & steamy madhouse, coming home a few days later was actually not that weird at all...what made it madness was that i hardly had 3 days before i was off again, this time to norway with 38 guests following me.
my jetlag was still there, my cold was horrible and my ankles were still swollen...but i had a great week, thanks to a nice & funny driver, a great group and weather that cleared every day!
now i'm home, for 4 days until i'm off to the north again. next week i'll only have 15 guests (what?!) & we'll start in stockholm, yay!
from hong kong to the fjords within a week: different countries, different scenery!
my jetlag was still there, my cold was horrible and my ankles were still swollen...but i had a great week, thanks to a nice & funny driver, a great group and weather that cleared every day!
now i'm home, for 4 days until i'm off to the north again. next week i'll only have 15 guests (what?!) & we'll start in stockholm, yay!
from hong kong to the fjords within a week: different countries, different scenery!
Sunday, July 15, 2007
quickie from hong kong!
have been in this HOT & HUMID city for almost 2 days now, and will be for another day before i fly home (!!!) tomorrow night.
my room here is tiny, but that's normal for hong kong standards. same with the bathroom, if i'm having a shower my toilet and sink are also completely wet that's how tiny it is haha!
during the day it's about 35C here, but the humidity is the thing that makes this heat k-i-l-l-i-n-g, keep running in & out of shops & shopping malls to escape the heat, luckily that's not a problem here.
so what have i been doing here?
well, yesterday i took the star ferry to hong kong island, my guesthouse is on the other city island called kowloon, wandered around there and then took the peak tram up to...the peak, the highest point on hong kong island from where you have a great view over the city.
today i went outside of town to visit the big buddha and accompanying buddhist temple, pretty cool (even though it was even hotter there than in the city)!
tonight i'm going to one of the night markets here in kowloon, tomorrow i'm gonna try to get up early to find some old chinese man in the park doing their daily tai chi routine, after that i'm going to find more buddha's...about 10.000 of them!
then at night it's the bus back to the airport, a 12 1/2 hour flight and i'll be back in amsterdam by tuesday morning :D
will post pix of hong kong next week!
my room here is tiny, but that's normal for hong kong standards. same with the bathroom, if i'm having a shower my toilet and sink are also completely wet that's how tiny it is haha!
during the day it's about 35C here, but the humidity is the thing that makes this heat k-i-l-l-i-n-g, keep running in & out of shops & shopping malls to escape the heat, luckily that's not a problem here.
so what have i been doing here?
well, yesterday i took the star ferry to hong kong island, my guesthouse is on the other city island called kowloon, wandered around there and then took the peak tram up to...the peak, the highest point on hong kong island from where you have a great view over the city.
today i went outside of town to visit the big buddha and accompanying buddhist temple, pretty cool (even though it was even hotter there than in the city)!
tonight i'm going to one of the night markets here in kowloon, tomorrow i'm gonna try to get up early to find some old chinese man in the park doing their daily tai chi routine, after that i'm going to find more buddha's...about 10.000 of them!
then at night it's the bus back to the airport, a 12 1/2 hour flight and i'll be back in amsterdam by tuesday morning :D
will post pix of hong kong next week!
Sunday, July 08, 2007
let's see if i can do this...
even if blogger is in japanese today!
blogging from my hostel in central sydney @ the moment. left byron bay last monday night, after a 13 hour bus trip i arrived back in sydney, to directly take another bus out of the city again...to wollongong! normally you take a train by the way, but because it's schoolholidays they decided to work on the traintracks.
in holland this would cause TROUBLE for those wanting to get somewhere after all, in australia they hire a bunch of pensioners as volonteers who put signs everywhere around the station and make sure nobody misses out on knowing where the busses to wollongong and thirroul are leaving from...and those busses are also really there, and leaving as regularly as the trains would, you can see i was impressed!
anyway, in wollongong i stayed @ the fabulous hostel 'the gedges' again until friday. even though emma & hubby brett had some sleepless nights because 2 out of 3 kids were sick i never slept better, finally a room for myself after over a month in cramed, smelly & noisy rooms on the east coast.
my last night we were invited over for dinner at brett parents, which was really nice. they made me try yelly...wasn't as bad a i thought haha!
i'd showed off some of my dutch cuisine cooking the night before by the way, made pancakes with bacon & maple syrup ;) the kids loved it!
and to make my OZ-experience complete i had toast with vegemite on my last morning...which was actually ok too! :O
so friday i said goodbye to emma, :( then took the bus back into sydney and moved into this hostel on kent street for a couple of nights, kate's coming back from her holiday tomorrow night so i will spend my last couple of days in OZ over @ her place again.
this weekend i've most of all been relaxing while wandering around town, found out i still know my way around the city which is good. didn't do much special apart from sight-seeing & window-shopping. up until today the weather was pretty good, but today it was just pouring with rain, if it's like that again tomorrow it'll be a museum day, if not i'm thinking of finally talking a walk over the harbour bridge.
i'm not sure if i'll be blogging again before i head off to hong kong this friday, the 13th haha, hopefully i'll be able to blog from there next weekend though! will be landing back in little NL on tuesday morning 6:45 (am that is!)....to leave again 3 days later! only to norway this time thought...hard life as a travelguide eh? ;)
blogging from my hostel in central sydney @ the moment. left byron bay last monday night, after a 13 hour bus trip i arrived back in sydney, to directly take another bus out of the city again...to wollongong! normally you take a train by the way, but because it's schoolholidays they decided to work on the traintracks.
in holland this would cause TROUBLE for those wanting to get somewhere after all, in australia they hire a bunch of pensioners as volonteers who put signs everywhere around the station and make sure nobody misses out on knowing where the busses to wollongong and thirroul are leaving from...and those busses are also really there, and leaving as regularly as the trains would, you can see i was impressed!
anyway, in wollongong i stayed @ the fabulous hostel 'the gedges' again until friday. even though emma & hubby brett had some sleepless nights because 2 out of 3 kids were sick i never slept better, finally a room for myself after over a month in cramed, smelly & noisy rooms on the east coast.
my last night we were invited over for dinner at brett parents, which was really nice. they made me try yelly...wasn't as bad a i thought haha!
i'd showed off some of my dutch cuisine cooking the night before by the way, made pancakes with bacon & maple syrup ;) the kids loved it!
and to make my OZ-experience complete i had toast with vegemite on my last morning...which was actually ok too! :O
so friday i said goodbye to emma, :( then took the bus back into sydney and moved into this hostel on kent street for a couple of nights, kate's coming back from her holiday tomorrow night so i will spend my last couple of days in OZ over @ her place again.
this weekend i've most of all been relaxing while wandering around town, found out i still know my way around the city which is good. didn't do much special apart from sight-seeing & window-shopping. up until today the weather was pretty good, but today it was just pouring with rain, if it's like that again tomorrow it'll be a museum day, if not i'm thinking of finally talking a walk over the harbour bridge.
i'm not sure if i'll be blogging again before i head off to hong kong this friday, the 13th haha, hopefully i'll be able to blog from there next weekend though! will be landing back in little NL on tuesday morning 6:45 (am that is!)....to leave again 3 days later! only to norway this time thought...hard life as a travelguide eh? ;)
Monday, July 02, 2007
byron bay
for the past 2 days i've been here in byron bay. it's a bit of a hippie-town, quite alternative and really laid back, love it! my hostel is even more alternative than alternative, called the arts factory. all in all it's a really nice place, and it's been really nice & sunny too the past days (but still only 20 degrees), the nigts are FREEZING though!
went on a whale watching tour this morning, really cool and apart from whales we saw some dolphins as well. wasn't able to get anything on camera though as everytime you see a whale (and it was from like 100m distance, your're not allowed to come closer unless they come to you) they disappear...fast! plus the boat was pretty bouncy :P
went for a walk up to cape byron's lighthouse (australia's most eastern point) this afternoon, and from there i saw some dolphins & whales again, this time i was able to get at least something on camera...
tonight i'm taking the nightbus back to sydney, (almost 13 hours!), staying with emma in wollongong for the next few days! :D
me on whale watching boat this morning
cape byron lighthouse
went on a whale watching tour this morning, really cool and apart from whales we saw some dolphins as well. wasn't able to get anything on camera though as everytime you see a whale (and it was from like 100m distance, your're not allowed to come closer unless they come to you) they disappear...fast! plus the boat was pretty bouncy :P
went for a walk up to cape byron's lighthouse (australia's most eastern point) this afternoon, and from there i saw some dolphins & whales again, this time i was able to get at least something on camera...
tonight i'm taking the nightbus back to sydney, (almost 13 hours!), staying with emma in wollongong for the next few days! :D
me on whale watching boat this morning
cape byron lighthouse
dolphins!
that water splashing down in the middle was a whale, yes i'm positive!
brisbane & surfer's paradise
after my last blog from noosa (& some rainy days there) i went to brisbane last week. spent 2 days there & have to say it was great being in a big city again!
even if brisbane is australia's 3rd largest city i don't think it's australia's 3rd nicest one though. did a fair bit of sight-seeing though and finally went to a museum again!
after brizzy it was time for the gold coast, or australia's benidorm as some people call it. went to surfers paradise there for 1 day & night, let's just say the hostel was really nice & i had a nice time going out at night with some people there, other than that i didn't like it that much.
brisbane seen from the rooftop of my hostel
me & brisbane skyline
surfer's paradise, pay special attention to the parking ladies in gold bikinis
even if brisbane is australia's 3rd largest city i don't think it's australia's 3rd nicest one though. did a fair bit of sight-seeing though and finally went to a museum again!
after brizzy it was time for the gold coast, or australia's benidorm as some people call it. went to surfers paradise there for 1 day & night, let's just say the hostel was really nice & i had a nice time going out at night with some people there, other than that i didn't like it that much.
brisbane seen from the rooftop of my hostel
me & brisbane skyline
surfer's paradise, pay special attention to the parking ladies in gold bikinis
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
crikey!
yup, i went to steve irwin's australia zoo yesterday!
it was very much steve irwin (& family, that bindi girl is annoying the hell out of me), as my friend sharon said 'it's all just a big temple for steve!'...the croc show was quite a disappointment, luckily we saw a tiger show that made up for it.
other than that we just saw lots of steve memorabilia in the shop & all around the zoo, some cute parrots, kangaroos & koala's (plus lots of other animals, but don't want to bore everyone too much with animal photos) and i fed an elephant. on the way back to noosa in our free australia zoo shuttle bus i couldn't be bothered to watch any more steve irwin video's on the tv and had a nap instead ;)
fraser island
last week i did my last tour here in australia, a 3 day 4wheel drive safari on fraser island!
we all met in our hostel in hervey bay the night before departure, where we had a briefing and saw some video's to prepare & warn us, for dingo's amongst other things.
the next morning we left the hostel at 7 am, to go to the camp & car hire thing, where we got our car and all our camping gear. from the hostel we got huskies with our food & we bought some beer & goon there as well, which prooved to be very much needed!
here's the 3 days in photos:
day 1 wednesday june 20th
these signs were everywhere!
me always enjoying nature, same in this rainforest
with sharon @ lake basin
we camped in the wild, next to the beach, and this hole that everybody's standing around was a very important part of our camp (yes, our toilet!)
late afternoon walk to lake wabby
@ lake wabby, from left to right: yanice (germany), lorainne & ross (ireland), sarah (germany), sharon (israel), zilo (denmark/sweden) & me
dinner in the rrrrrrrrrrrain!
drinking the night away in one of our tents, quite steamy (on the left is matt from france by the way)
and funny!
day 2 thursday june 21st
our 4wd on the beach
at the maheno shipwreck with all the girls
dingo!
view from indian head (our car is somewhere down there as well)
me @ indian head (where we did see some whales, but too far away to see it properly)
putting up our camp for the 2nd night
sunset, things finally looked a bit better for the last day (you know what they say about a red sky @ night)
day 3 friday june 22nd
sun at last! putting everything back on the car
group photo! (doing our dingo danger movement
enjoying our last hours in the back of the 4wd
visiting the shipwreck again, this time with a blue sky, yaay!
me @ lake mckenzie
sharon & me swimming @ lake mckenzie, it was bloody cold!
photo of our lovely group at the lake
waiting for the barge to bring us back to civilization
while doing that we decided to finish our drinks!
group photo back @ the car/camp hire place
lorraine & ross enjoying themselves
zilo & sarah, this is what happens when you spend 3 cold & wet days on an island
we were all a bit mad during our last night @ the pizza hut, this is yanice & me by the way
yanice, me & sharon trying to act normal
we all met in our hostel in hervey bay the night before departure, where we had a briefing and saw some video's to prepare & warn us, for dingo's amongst other things.
the next morning we left the hostel at 7 am, to go to the camp & car hire thing, where we got our car and all our camping gear. from the hostel we got huskies with our food & we bought some beer & goon there as well, which prooved to be very much needed!
here's the 3 days in photos:
day 1 wednesday june 20th
these signs were everywhere!
me always enjoying nature, same in this rainforest
with sharon @ lake basin
we camped in the wild, next to the beach, and this hole that everybody's standing around was a very important part of our camp (yes, our toilet!)
late afternoon walk to lake wabby
@ lake wabby, from left to right: yanice (germany), lorainne & ross (ireland), sarah (germany), sharon (israel), zilo (denmark/sweden) & me
dinner in the rrrrrrrrrrrain!
drinking the night away in one of our tents, quite steamy (on the left is matt from france by the way)
and funny!
day 2 thursday june 21st
our 4wd on the beach
at the maheno shipwreck with all the girls
dingo!
view from indian head (our car is somewhere down there as well)
me @ indian head (where we did see some whales, but too far away to see it properly)
putting up our camp for the 2nd night
sunset, things finally looked a bit better for the last day (you know what they say about a red sky @ night)
day 3 friday june 22nd
sun at last! putting everything back on the car
group photo! (doing our dingo danger movement
enjoying our last hours in the back of the 4wd
visiting the shipwreck again, this time with a blue sky, yaay!
me @ lake mckenzie
sharon & me swimming @ lake mckenzie, it was bloody cold!
photo of our lovely group at the lake
waiting for the barge to bring us back to civilization
while doing that we decided to finish our drinks!
group photo back @ the car/camp hire place
lorraine & ross enjoying themselves
zilo & sarah, this is what happens when you spend 3 cold & wet days on an island
we were all a bit mad during our last night @ the pizza hut, this is yanice & me by the way
yanice, me & sharon trying to act normal
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