Articles tagged with "Travel Tidbits"
We have found 496 articles tagged with "Travel Tidbits".
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 19:04:51
(Except Amsterdam and Giethoorn)
Rotterdam was nearly destroyed during WW II, and was rebuilt in a modern, rather lackluster style (in our opinion). ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 19:03:01
(Except Amsterdam and Giethoorn)
Once we stopped in Breda to get some Dutch money, and the lady at the bank said this is ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 19:02:04
(Except Amsterdam and Giethoorn)
In Zwolle we stopped at an electrical store to buy some lamps, etc., to install a better lighting system ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 19:00:57
We arrived in Amsterdam in mid-afternoon, for our first visit. We drove around the city awhile, then discovered the Anne Frank Museum, just after ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 19:00:10
The next time we visited Amsterdam we made sure we visited during the hours the Anne Frank Museum was open. Her father’s business had ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:54:58
We found Giethoorn to be a lovely town, with only canals, foot or bike paths — streets come only to the edge of town. ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:54:03
The 1928 Olympic games were held in Amsterdam, and for many years the Olympic site was the location of an Amsterdam campsite, identified by a ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:53:11
In 1970 we headed for the campsite located next to the Olympic Stadium south of Amsterdam. At one point we saw a tall vertical ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:52:25
The band in the Gulpen campsite had a saxophone, drums, and a couple of other instruments, and played a funny type, or style, of music. ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:42:40
(Except Brussels, Brugge, Ghent , and Antwerp)
Years ago, during border crossings between European countries, passports and vehicle papers were almost ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:41:16
During our first visit, near The Grand Place in Brussels we found the life-size statue of the little boy, Manikin Pis. The name tells ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:40:38
There are very interesting outdoor marketplaces near downtown Brussels. It looks like they sell real “fleas” in one large square, while another, a few ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:39:47
The 1977 Dodge Cobra Van we drove in 1979 did not have a heater for the living “room.” We had tried to get a ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:37:25
We drove to Ghent, and found the city run campsite was very nice. It’s located near Ghent’s water sports area where there’s a long ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:36:40
During one visit to Antwerp we found the campsite was closed for the season, but the Antwerp Youth Hostel was open. We spend the night ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:35:53
As we drove from Brussels toward Antwerp we saw a sign for the Breendonk prison. The fort, which can be seen from the motor ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:32:15
We drove to Leige and looked a little, but these Belgium towns don’t seem as interesting as the towns in Holland. Near Limburg, as ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:17:01
A man next to us in the campsite in Mariazell, had just returned from a trip across the US, riding in a bus with beds. ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:16:06
On our first visit to Vienna, Emmy wasn’t feeling well. I checked, then said, “You feel just fine to me.” After we found ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:14:22
We visited Salzburg, Austria, on our first visit to Europe. We first drove around town for awhile, then parked and walked to the Cathedral ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:13:39
We drove on a “little” road as a shortcut to our destination, Hallstatt, Austria. At one place the road had a 24 degree slope, ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:13:00
On our first visit to Vienna, Emmy wasn’t feeling well. I checked, then said, “You feel just fine to me!” After we checked ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:12:13
One afternoon we went to the Schönbrunn Palace. Emmy liked the layout, but even though they had tried to build a copy, we saw ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:11:22
We rode the bus and streetcar in Vienna when we could decide our destination could be reached without too many transfers. If we bought ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:10:24
In the center of this well defined Innere Stadt (inner city), Stephansdom (St. Stephen’s Cathedral) is easily identified by the multi-colored roof tiles, that form ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:09:36
Vienna, Austria, is a most stately, magnificent, majestic city. But the most majestic? It’s certainly near the top of the list, if not ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:07:52
(Except Vienna, Salzburg, Melk, and Hallstatt)
We arrived from Yugoslavia, drove through Graz, Austria, and headed north toward Salzburg. This year, the toll for ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:06:58
(Except Vienna, Salzburg, Melk, and Hallstatt)
There’s a law in Austria (and some other countries) that big trucks cannot be on the roads on the ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:05:44
(Except Vienna, Salzburg, Melk, and Hallstatt)
We left Salzburg early one morning, headed toward Venice, Italy. We drove through the very pleasant Austrian countryside and ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2004-07-30 18:02:54
We drove along the lake and found the campsite just west of Lausanne, on Lac Leman (Lake Geneva). In addition to the campsites, there ...
