Our trip to Holland
We left on Thanksgiving day and ate some turkey sandwiches at a roadside park on the way.
One thing we noticed when we entered the Netherlands was the very modern type of buildings we saw on the way. They seemed very 'hip' you might say. Of course that is only in the new sections of cities. EVERYone we encountered spoke English very well (but Dutch too of course) and were very helpful and nice to us.
We went to Delft and Amsterdam. We were all kind of sick of traveling mostly because of the weather, so we came home a day early. We didn't go to The Hague as planned. Hopefully we will have a chance to go back to the Netherlands some time.
We went to the Rijksmuseum and to Anne Frank's house. We took a canal boat cruise in Amsterdam and we did a lot of walking the city streets. We did NOT see the famous red light district (we didn't look for it) but we did see one of the Amsterdam famous brown cafe's as we were driving around.
Mainly, for meals we had cheeseburgers! There was a McDonalds near our hotel...and we stopped at a fast food type place in Amsterdam (almost 40 euro for lunch!). Brandon and Ann-Marie loved the mayonaise on the French Fries (a typical Dutch thing). In fact we even saw that they serve packets of mayonaise that they call fry sauce or something like that. But our first night there in Delft we ate at South American restaurant and tried their cuisine. We had some sandwiches and Dutch beer there. Me and Brandon had a Heineken (well, Brandon had a half of one and I finished his) and Jake had a Grolsch. Jake had some sort of sweet and sour chicken sandwich with carrots on it and I had a very spice HOT shrimp sandwich with green beans on it. Brandon had a curry chicken sandwich and Ann-Marie had a fried banana type thing.
Sadly, I did not buy any cheese from Holland... which I had planned to get a 'wheel' of cheese. We did walk around on our last day in Delft and saw the street markets, with foods and other things for sale. That is really a nice experience (when the weather permits!).
I hope you enjoy our photos and please let me know when you visit!
One thing we noticed when we entered the Netherlands was the very modern type of buildings we saw on the way. They seemed very 'hip' you might say. Of course that is only in the new sections of cities. EVERYone we encountered spoke English very well (but Dutch too of course) and were very helpful and nice to us.
We went to Delft and Amsterdam. We were all kind of sick of traveling mostly because of the weather, so we came home a day early. We didn't go to The Hague as planned. Hopefully we will have a chance to go back to the Netherlands some time.
We went to the Rijksmuseum and to Anne Frank's house. We took a canal boat cruise in Amsterdam and we did a lot of walking the city streets. We did NOT see the famous red light district (we didn't look for it) but we did see one of the Amsterdam famous brown cafe's as we were driving around.
Mainly, for meals we had cheeseburgers! There was a McDonalds near our hotel...and we stopped at a fast food type place in Amsterdam (almost 40 euro for lunch!). Brandon and Ann-Marie loved the mayonaise on the French Fries (a typical Dutch thing). In fact we even saw that they serve packets of mayonaise that they call fry sauce or something like that. But our first night there in Delft we ate at South American restaurant and tried their cuisine. We had some sandwiches and Dutch beer there. Me and Brandon had a Heineken (well, Brandon had a half of one and I finished his) and Jake had a Grolsch. Jake had some sort of sweet and sour chicken sandwich with carrots on it and I had a very spice HOT shrimp sandwich with green beans on it. Brandon had a curry chicken sandwich and Ann-Marie had a fried banana type thing.
Sadly, I did not buy any cheese from Holland... which I had planned to get a 'wheel' of cheese. We did walk around on our last day in Delft and saw the street markets, with foods and other things for sale. That is really a nice experience (when the weather permits!).
I hope you enjoy our photos and please let me know when you visit!
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