It would be accurate to say that Holland is pretty cheesy and I'm not just referring to the souvenir shops with fluffy bedroom slippers shaped like wooden shoes or blue delft china made in... where else... china. The good part of the cheesy bit is the cheese. We have sampled an awful lot of diffferent types. Some award winners and some barely passable. Ya gotta love a good cheese with fruit and a glass of chilled wine.We did not fnd the Queen in residence...

Going from one bad thing to another in any other language just isn't as interesting. In German if you travel to a "Bad" you are likely to hit a spa of one kind or another. At least some hot water spewing out of the earth. In our case it seemed like we went from Bad Worishofen to Bad Honnigen and ended up at Apeldoorn with no hot water or mineral springs to be enjoyed. Seems a lot of Europeans come here to enjoy the "waters" but they just don't seem t...

This is our fourth day in Haarlem and it's taken all of that time to get my head around being here. My first impression here was that we had landed in the middle of "The Truman Show" (the movie about a reality show in a 'perfect' city). Now you have to understand that we just left Italy and anyone reading my blogs knows about the drivers there. When we exited the Airport to find our bus we really didn't notice anything different. It was when th...

Jam packed full flight with Paralympians from Italy, Germany, Scotland, Spain and of course Great Britain. Even the head of the Paralympic Committee was lounging in first class. The airport was full of Olympians some still carrying their bouquets. Tired athletes, proudly bearing their country ‘s colours intermingled with Vancouver 2010 souvenirs, still on a high from their experiences. One fellow told me the games were wonderful but it was the friendliness ...