The Netherlands.... Part 1: Being the tourist

Myself and Brad had our last stop before arriving in Canada in the Netherlands. I myself am half Dutch, both my Grandfathers were born and raised there, so for me getting to finally go was a dream come true. This post will be of us two being tourists in the country... seeing all the 'typical' sights. My next post will be us going to see where both my Grandfathers were born and raised!

So here are the picture highlights... starting with our two very rainy days in Amsterdam

First night in Amsterdam... getting my Dutch on LOL...

So many windmills... I just couldn't seem to get e

More rain... but it's still beautiful

Went to the Anne Frank house... such an amazing story

All the amazing canals in Amsterdam

Tulips anyone??

Just embrasing my heritage...

Went for a canal cruise

Haha I laughed too... oh but just wait

I want this bike...

Waffel + carmel... my fav!

On the Island of Marken

Marken behind us

He also wants to be Dutch...

Need a pair of clogs?

or some cheese?

Windmills out in Zaanse Schans

Made it down south to Maastricht

Currently sitting on HOLLAND, GERMANY, and BELGIUM... at the boarder of all three!!!

Brad also on all three countries

Standing on the highest point of Holland

oops sorry for Laughing Brad... I guess my umbrella was next to go :(

View of Amsterdam

Dutch pancakes are my FAV!!



Boats Boats and more Boats... I will never get sick of looking at them

Ok so that kinda sums up my tourist part... sorry about the crappy picture alignments... I have no clue how to use this sometimes. Any they really are not in any specific order as I was unsure how to move them all around.

Next post.... Family history: Friseland - The Bouma side and Schiedam - the van Dijk side

Dooie (or however they say/spell it LOL) aka bye,

Serena

Osterreich and Ceska Republika

Well we are back in Canada, just arrived, but I am very much behind on blogging. Right now I am actually trying to write an essay to complete one of my university courses, but figured blogging would be a great way to procrastinate.

So now to it... next stop after Croatia was Vienna, Austria... here are some picture highlights.

 I think that this is the university, not entirely sure... but it is beautiful from far and close up.



 Looking through a gateway

 Infront of the parliment building. It is too big of a building to get it all in one picture.

 The front view of the palace!

 The palace from the back, and all the amazing gardens that surround it.

We had our picnic lunch in this park. So beautiful - the whole city was amazing with parks and buildings.

Next stop was to Brno, Czech Republic.

Brad went to university in Brno, so we decided to go there so I could see where he studied, and he wanted a walk down memory lane...

 This is near is residence where he would catch the train to school each day...

 Eating pizza, where he often went for lunch...

 An amazing meal - rizotto

 At the local fruit and veggie market

Next stop... Prague, Czech Republic

 Prague at night, such a great skyline

 The extremely LOOONNNGGGG escalators

Well and there it is.... we leave Czech Republic and off to the Netherlands for the last country of our trip... more on that later... too tired to write, and I really need to get back to my essay.

Cheers,

Serena