Oh wowee, I just booked another plane ticket.
Berlin between May 18th and May 24th? I guess so!
I'm thinking that maybe I'd like to squeeze Prague in there as well...it's gonna be one of those packed 'gotta-see-it-all' kinda trips.
One last adventure before I adventure on outta this continent.
and I'm flying Ryanair this time. It would not be a complete stay in Europe if I didn't fly on the shittiest of all discount airlines at least once.
Yeah! Exciting!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
show me the roof
Some exciting things that happened, on my best adventure ever...
Rotterdam:
Delft:
Ahh, it was so much fun. I have new friends all over the place!
Needless to say, it's kinda hard to be back in Scotland, having to do work again. Ben and I were saying how we feel guilty about all our previous complaints about Edinburgh cause the Meadows are just so damn pretty in the sunshine, covered in cherry blossoms.
Rotterdam:
Seeing the entire city while sitting on the back of Willem's bike. Going fast, through parks, by lakes, over bridges, big streets, so close to the trams that I could stick my foot out and touch them if I wanted to.
- Being introduced to the classic Dutch food, bread with chocolate sprinkles on top.
- Spending days by the lake, in the sunshine.
- Endless feasts, numerous dance parties.
- Motel Mozaique...seeing Grampall Jookabox, Dent May and his Magnificent Ukelele, Fever Ray and dancing like an absolute crazy person at The Whitest Boy Alive. AMAZING.
- Bike rides on my own (actually, Daan's) bike, which had no pedals, but I have picked up biking skills from those crazy Dutch.
Delft:
- Easter monday picnic in the park, by a lake. Lotsa good food, playing in the sun, feet in the water.
- Rooftop barbeque!
- Biking 40km one day with Jenny and Bob, to see all the tulip fields in bloom.
- Hanging out in the chauffeurs cafe in the Keukenhof gardens...we were too poor to pay the steep entrance price, so we just had coffee with the bus drivers instead.
- Big potluck with friends and other couchsurfers...italian pasta, malaysian chicken, japanese curry...ALL eaten with chopsticks, fun.
- The best coffee in the nicest cafe in town...I went everyday and drank spicey, pink, iced lattes.
- Experimental films, performance art, red wine Friday night.
- Eating all the free olives at the Saturday market, exploring all over.
- Pancake party!
Ahh, it was so much fun. I have new friends all over the place!
Needless to say, it's kinda hard to be back in Scotland, having to do work again. Ben and I were saying how we feel guilty about all our previous complaints about Edinburgh cause the Meadows are just so damn pretty in the sunshine, covered in cherry blossoms.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
I Heart Holland
Amsterdam adventures!
I spent 6 days in Amsterdam with a blue bicycle, surrounded by great people. Astrid introduced me to a bunch of her friends and we had a wonderful time. I immediately went into summer mode, since it was sunny and 20 degrees almost every day. We did lots of sitting around the canals with ice cream, eating apple tart on cafe patios, and picnics! I was also introduced to the joy of fresh stroopwafels. We like food.
Having a bike was by far the best part though. I miss biking so much, and Amsterdam is just the best place to bike around. I got to see so much more of the city.
Perhaps the craziest thing we did was participating in International Pillowfight Day...look it up, it happens all over the world! Astrid, her friends Annie & Chris and I went to Dam Square on Saturday afternoon, armed with pillows and joined hundreds of other people with pillows and had a hilarious, happy pillow fight that lasted about an hour. The pictures are nuts, I'll definitely put some up when I get home. Feathers were flying everywhere, in the air, on the ground, it was like a fluffy winter. We were absolutely covered in feathers. So much fun.
Right now I'm in Utrecht. I arrived yesterday and met my first couchsurfing host, Charlotte. She's really cool and we've got lots in common. She showed me around the city and then we made a summery salad and sat in her back garden with a bottle of wine and enjoyed the weather. Today I wandered around by myself for a bit, exploring the canals and city hall, which I accidently stumbled into, thinking it was an art gallery. It kind of was though...there was some sort of young artist exhibition, so that was interesting. I met up with Charlotte later on and we went to the University museum and botanic garden, which was really nice.
We were researching an art/music festival happening in Rotterdam right now, called Motel Mozaique. It looked pretty sweet, and then today my Rotterdam host text-messaged me asking if I wanted to go to it with him, so now I've got a festival ticket for Friday. Excellent. Handsome Furs and ...AYWKUBTTOD and loads of other sweet bands are playing. Whoa whoa whoa!
So yeah, a couple more days in Utrecht, then Rotterdam, then Delft, The Hague, Leiden, and Haarlem. That'll take me to April 20th, then home. Maybe I'll get another chance to update later on...
EDIT: really good pillow fight shots here. There's even a photo of me!
I spent 6 days in Amsterdam with a blue bicycle, surrounded by great people. Astrid introduced me to a bunch of her friends and we had a wonderful time. I immediately went into summer mode, since it was sunny and 20 degrees almost every day. We did lots of sitting around the canals with ice cream, eating apple tart on cafe patios, and picnics! I was also introduced to the joy of fresh stroopwafels. We like food.
Having a bike was by far the best part though. I miss biking so much, and Amsterdam is just the best place to bike around. I got to see so much more of the city.
Perhaps the craziest thing we did was participating in International Pillowfight Day...look it up, it happens all over the world! Astrid, her friends Annie & Chris and I went to Dam Square on Saturday afternoon, armed with pillows and joined hundreds of other people with pillows and had a hilarious, happy pillow fight that lasted about an hour. The pictures are nuts, I'll definitely put some up when I get home. Feathers were flying everywhere, in the air, on the ground, it was like a fluffy winter. We were absolutely covered in feathers. So much fun.
Right now I'm in Utrecht. I arrived yesterday and met my first couchsurfing host, Charlotte. She's really cool and we've got lots in common. She showed me around the city and then we made a summery salad and sat in her back garden with a bottle of wine and enjoyed the weather. Today I wandered around by myself for a bit, exploring the canals and city hall, which I accidently stumbled into, thinking it was an art gallery. It kind of was though...there was some sort of young artist exhibition, so that was interesting. I met up with Charlotte later on and we went to the University museum and botanic garden, which was really nice.
We were researching an art/music festival happening in Rotterdam right now, called Motel Mozaique. It looked pretty sweet, and then today my Rotterdam host text-messaged me asking if I wanted to go to it with him, so now I've got a festival ticket for Friday. Excellent. Handsome Furs and ...AYWKUBTTOD and loads of other sweet bands are playing. Whoa whoa whoa!
So yeah, a couple more days in Utrecht, then Rotterdam, then Delft, The Hague, Leiden, and Haarlem. That'll take me to April 20th, then home. Maybe I'll get another chance to update later on...
EDIT: really good pillow fight shots here. There's even a photo of me!
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