Showing posts with label walking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label walking. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
The nice side of Amsterdam
This past Saturday I went to Amsterdam --yes on my day off even! But its much nicer to be able to walk around the city and enjoy it, and not go to work. I went there with my friend V to try some wedding dresses on. Then we walked around the shopping street some, and later M came and met up with us on the Leidseplein. We walked around, and as it got colder, we got hungrier, and needed to find a place to eat! We walked along some nice streets-- where the locals are and the tourists probably don't even venture out this way. We wanted to go to our Ethiopian restaurant near the Wibautstraat metro, but when we got there- it was closed! It looked like they were remodeling. So we settled for Italian instead, and of course, that was good. It was a crisp day with a biting wind. But it was a nice day, definitely. I enjoy walking through Amsterdam's streets and neighborhoods that are removed from the tourist track.
Monday, June 11, 2007
Finally...I made a cappuccino!
The biggest news of last week I forgot to include in my post from Saturday---I made a cappuccino and the milk actually foamed! woohoo! It looked so nice. I was really excited. funny how little things make me so excited now.
Saturday night we were at M's parents' house for his sister's birthday. We left on the 11pm train back to Utrecht. By some odd, random chance that I cannot explain, we happened to run into this woman who is staying at the hostel now. She's from the US with a study group, and has talked to M about housing markets and stuff like that in the NL. Apparently she fell asleep between Delft and den Haag on the train, and then woke up when it was continuing on ...somehow I dont quite understand this b/c Den Haag would have been the end of the line. But in any case, I heard some woman speaking English to the train ticket person saying she thought she was going den haag and when he said its going to Utrecht, she said well that's ok, I want to go to Utrecht. Then she walked in the car, and I couldn't believe it. That was too weird for me.
Yesterday we went on a 16km hike/walk through some forested areas between Ede and Wageningen. It took like 4 hours, so I wonder if it was really longer than 16 km. it was nice, but my feet were killing me after that.
Saturday night we were at M's parents' house for his sister's birthday. We left on the 11pm train back to Utrecht. By some odd, random chance that I cannot explain, we happened to run into this woman who is staying at the hostel now. She's from the US with a study group, and has talked to M about housing markets and stuff like that in the NL. Apparently she fell asleep between Delft and den Haag on the train, and then woke up when it was continuing on ...somehow I dont quite understand this b/c Den Haag would have been the end of the line. But in any case, I heard some woman speaking English to the train ticket person saying she thought she was going den haag and when he said its going to Utrecht, she said well that's ok, I want to go to Utrecht. Then she walked in the car, and I couldn't believe it. That was too weird for me.
Yesterday we went on a 16km hike/walk through some forested areas between Ede and Wageningen. It took like 4 hours, so I wonder if it was really longer than 16 km. it was nice, but my feet were killing me after that.
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