It was Kings Day which is the King’s birthday and the Netherlands biggest party of the year…and the Dutch definitely know how to party. At 10:00am we left Amsterdam Centraal Station and wandered out into the city. The streets were already packed with people dressed in orange.There were rummage sales and music on practically every street. We walked through the Jordaan area first before making our way to Vondel …
The alarm rang at 4:22AM. Graham and I quickly got ourselves together and speed walked to the train station where he got my ticket and helped me board the train to Frankfurt. I went to the airport very early because, as expected, KLM messed up my baggage reservation…again. I won’t get into it….for now. My flight was on time and I met John with no problem at Schipol Airport …
It’s official. Graham was trying to kill me. After his early morning class, we packed a lunch and headed on a hike to the top of the Holy Mountain (Heiligenberg). You can see Graham gleefully pointing to the top of the mountain from his street. Walking through the town, we stopped to check out an indicator of the flood water heights on certain years. The trek up the …
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It felt like Graham was trying to kill me as we hiked quickly through the streets of Heidelberg and up the steep, seemingly endless stairs to the castle. The day was comfortably warm and sunny. We passed numerous beautiful, old buildings. Graham informed me that many of them were frat houses. I was saddened to see that some of them had graffiti and paint splattered on them. The castle …