An extended visit to Portugal has been in our plans for some time, and finally the time is now. We had been in Europe for three months just three months earlier and were lucky enough to make a return trip to spend another three months here (three months is significant as this is our current... Continue Reading →
Netherlands: Day trips from The Hague / Den Haag
Our last post covered four weeks of Den Haag explorations and this one tackles several day trips we took while staying there to places outside the city's boundaries. Delft Our first trip to Delft was on what turned out to be a windy, rainy market day. We arrived just in time to have a coffee... Continue Reading →
Netherlands: The Hague / Den Haag (part 2)
We started our 2022 European travels in The Hague where our son and his family had moved to earlier in the year. We spent about four weeks at the end of our three-month trip back in The Hague, sometimes with family, sometimes on our own while family went on their own holiday, and sometimes with... Continue Reading →
Netherlands: North Holland
We were booked for a one-week house sit in Amsterdam (covered in the next post) but thought we'd like a little more time in that city. We either left it too long or Amsterdam is crazy expensive (or both) because any AirBnBs or hotel rooms there for a late-June week were prohibitively expensive. Since part... Continue Reading →
Netherlands: The Hague/Den Haag (part 1)
With our son and his family newly settled in The Netherlands, our first stop on our first journey in two years had to be their adopted city of The Hague (Den Haag in Dutch). After an uneventful KLM flight from Vancouver to Amsterdam, we purchased our train card (see TripBits) and then followed signs (and... Continue Reading →
Finally, we are off again
The world is certainly not healthy yet, but we've decided it's time to expand our nomadic borders from the two provinces in Canada that we've been pinballing around in for the last two years. On Monday, May 2, 2022, we board our first plane since being recalled from New Zealand in March 2020, and off... Continue Reading →