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A Few Favorite Dutch Foods

August 25, 2016

A Few Favorite Dutch Foods

We pretty much ate our way through Holland and Belgium, excited to try foods that were new to us and fall in love with things we knew we couldn’t find at home. Of course, some of the foods we tried in Holland were things we’d had before, like stroopwafels, but that didn’t mean we didn’t eat…

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10 Comments / Filed In: Personal, Travel
Tagged: Dutch Foods, Holland, NL&BE16, The Netherlands

48 Hours in Amsterdam

August 17, 2016

48 Hours in Amsterdam

The last two nights of our trip to Europe were spent in Amsterdam. We arrived by train from our excursion to Belgium a little after noon on Thursday and left out of Amsterdam Schiphol the following Saturday around the same time. This gave us just a little under 48 hours to explore (given we had…

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Tagged: Amsterdam, Holland, NL&BE16, The Netherlands

The Albus Hotel Amsterdam Review

August 15, 2016

The Albus Hotel Amsterdam Review

When researching for our time in Amsterdam, I knew that finding the perfect hotel would be one of my biggest challenges. With so many to choose from and my unfamiliarity of the layout of the city, I spent hours comparing hotels by reading reviews and checking their locations versus places I had starred on Google…

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4 Comments / Filed In: Reviews, Travel
Tagged: Albus Hotel, Amsterdam, Holland, NL&BE16, Review, The Netherlands

Visiting Kasteel Doorwerth

July 26, 2016

Visiting Kasteel Doorwerth

After visiting De Vlijt windmill while we were in Wageningen, Diana and R drove us east of town to visit a nearby castle, Kasteel Doorwerth. This medieval castle dates back to the 1200s and is located on the floodplains of the Rhine River, halfway between Wageningen and the larger city of Arnhem. The original structure(s) were…

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Tagged: Doorwerth Castle, Holland, Kasteel Doorwerth, NL&BE16, The Netherlands, Wageningen

Visiting De Vlijt, a Working Windmill in Holland

July 20, 2016

Visiting De Vlijt, a Working Windmill in Holland

It may be one of the most touristy things a visitor to the Netherlands can do, but seeing a windmill while visiting the country is one of those things you almost have to do. They’re so iconic, and “so Dutch.” I was happy just seeing them from the highway, smiling whenever I spotted one from the…

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Tagged: De Vlijt, Dutch Windmill, Holland, NL&BE16, The Netherlands, Wageningen

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