HandS Travel

We haven’t traveled since April since I had exams in June and was frantically studying for them during the latter part of April and all of May. I did have a trip to NE for a friend’s wedding on June 5 but it was a quick trip. So, now we are headed to Amsterdam for [...]

It was the PERFECT day for half a Connemarathon. We got up early to eat some more carbs and headed to the bus pick-up site at the cathedral. Henry came along with a spectator bus ticket, hoping to get on a bus with me but since it was only 8 am and our race didn’t [...]

In April, Henry and I traveled from London’s Luton Airport directly to Galway, Ireland for the great occasion of running my second half marathon. Since the marathon is held in Connemara National Park near Galway, it is called the Connemarathon. Thanks to Henry’s superb Irish accent that he picked up, we now say Con-e-mair-e-chon at [...]

Our final stop on our trip was in Ghent, Belgium.  We had heard about Brussells not being all its cracked up to be, and that Brugges is cool, but very busy, so we chose neither, settling on Ghent.  Boy were we happy with our choice when we got to our hotel and swore we were [...]

After leaving Kuekenhof in the afternoon we had to make our way to yet another country, Belgium.  Our destination was Ghent.  Not too much happened on the drive, but here are a few of the hi-lites and of course some pictures. Decided to take the scenic route out one of the Netherlands peninsulas. Saw many [...]

Our next destination was the Keukenhof Gardens near Amsterdam in The Netherlands.  I once again got to experience the fantastic German autobahn.  There was one stretch that was completely empty so we decided to try to max out my car’s speed.  We got up to 245 Km/hour or 152 MPH, it was awesome!!!  That’s the [...]

Sheila woke up this morning (Easter Morning) at about 3AM crying from the pain in her throat.  It had been sore before we left the UK, but we knew if we went to the doctor in the UK they would have said, “Give it a few days…”.  So we did and by this night it [...]

 After our experience in the countryside of Germany, we spent a day exploring Cologne Germany, where we were staying for most of the trip.  We started by just wandering about a wee bit.  The area we were staying (the river frontish and Cathedral) was much prettier than the rest of the city we had seen [...]

After surviving the Nurburgring, we continued to drive through the German countryside to have dinner that evening at an old friend of Sheila’s that she hasn’t seen in about 10 years. We were lucky to be close to the Rhine so Sheila suggested we drive towards the river, by a recommendation from a friend in [...]

The main purpose of this trip was to have a lap or two around the Nurburgring.  The Nurburgring is a piece of road that has much history.  It originally started in 1927 as a 17.653 mile racetrack but has now been converted into a few different parts.  The part we would go on was the [...]