Tag: easter
Ghent, Belgium
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 [...]
Posted: April 6th, 2010 under travel.
Tags: Belgium, canals, easter, food, Ghent, travel
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The Netherlands and Keukenhof
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 [...]
Posted: April 4th, 2010 under travel.
Tags: Autobahn, driving, easter, gardens, Keukenhof, travel
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Another run in with National Healthcare – German Healthcare
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 [...]
Posted: April 4th, 2010 under Germany, travel.
Tags: easter, Germany, national health care, travel
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Cologne, Germany
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 [...]
Posted: April 3rd, 2010 under travel.
Tags: cathedral, cologne, easter, Germany, museums, travel, World Heritage Site
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Our Series of Blogs for Easter Holiday
So we recently returned from a small Easter road trip across some of Europe. This trip came about from some more of my (Henry) random trip planning, much the same way that our Christmas trip was planned, this one was pretty random. I was watching my favorite BBC show, Top Gear. I saw an episode [...]
Posted: March 31st, 2010 under travel.
Tags: driving, easter, france, Germany, holiday, nurburgring, racing, travel
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