Posts Tagged ‘Amsterdam’
Tweet Last year we visited Amsterdam for the first time, and we took a stroll through the Red Light District. I wasn’t sure what to expect but I was surprised to find it wasn’t very seedy, it is definitely more of a tourist attraction. The main RLD street has a canal running through it along [...]
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Tweet Editor’s note: This is a guest post from one of our UK readers. The ground beneath us rose up in a cloud of earth as the car tyres slide across the narrow road. Alex spun the steering wheel and rammed his foot into the brake pedal. We lurched towards the riverbank. Selina screamed. The [...]
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Tweet There is nothing better than having paper & pen with you in a new place. When we travel, I always try to write my own personal reflections down about each country we visit in my trusty travel notebooks, which is lovingly supplied by my sister Bridgette at Earmark Social Paper Goods. Amsterdam was our [...]
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Tweet Somewhere In Time is a weekly photo from around the world. Enjoy! Somewhere In Time Is Back! This used to be a weekly ongoing series but with all the craziness that occurred over the summer I ran out of my stash of ready photos, then with all the traveling that occurred in the fall [...]
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Tweet If you loved some of the yearly round up posts that were going around the blogosphere then you’re sure to love this new 7 Super Shots Photo round table put together by our friends at HostelBookers. We were asked to put together a photo post by choosing photos that we loved and that fit [...]
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Tweet Amsterdam is also called the “Venice of the North” and with good reason. There are canals everywhere! In my opinion the canals are easily the most charming part of the city. One thing that makes the canals in Amsterdam so unique is the fact that many of the residents live in houseboats right on [...]
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Tweet Outside of Amsterdam Central, as our rosy cheeked “walking taxi” assured us in splintered English that he knew the location of our houseboat rental, I saw what at first appeared to be a junk yard for bikes. There were thousands upon thousands of bikes from every decade dating back to World War II. Upon [...]
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