All Entries in the "Destinations" Category
Côte d’Azur: Antibes
I am not sure if it was the amazing weather or the stunning scenery, but we loved Antibes best of all the cities we visited on the French leg of our trip to the Riviera. To us, Antibes was the most “real” feeling–cozy cove beaches, a beautiful coastal walk, and a pretty but not pretentious [...]
Monaco
There are two things we noticed immediately about Monaco: 1) It has to be the cleanest city we’ve ever seen. We’re talking Disney World clean. 2) There is a LOT of money there. We liked the juxtaposition of these sailboats, though :-) We were in Monaco over Easter weekend (April 4) and the city was setting up [...]
Netherlands: Keukenhof (Bulb Garden)
Finally! Finally, I got to see some much anticipated spring blooms in the Keukenhof garden here in the Netherlands. We had planned to visit this garden with Mr. DJ’s parents and some friends from London, but only my father-in-law was lucky enough to make it here before the airports were shut down because of the [...]
Côte d’Azur: Nice
Rick Steves says, “Nice, with its spectacular Alps-to-Mediterranean surroundings, eternally entertaining seafront Promenade, and intriguing museums, is an enjoyable big-city highlight of the Riviera.” We agree! Nice made a fantastic base for our time in the French Riviera. You won’t need a car here; so much is within an easy walking distance. What you can’t [...]
Wordless Wednesday ~ 38: By lift or by foot, the view is great (Colline du Chateau in Nice, France)
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We are somewhere nice…
In Nice, to be exact. Nice, France. I think I’m going to have to do more detailed posts after we return to the Netherlands. Our tiny travel laptop is a little pokey when it comes to processing photos, and the WiFi at our hotel is kind of spotty. Still, I thought it might be fun [...]
A rainy Saturday afternoon in Delft
Roxi was in Ankara, Turkey for an international honour choir festival most of last week, leaving her old parents wondering what to do in her absence. Ha ha! Well, first we drank champagne in the middle of the week. Then we watched a double feature on a “school night” (Zwartboek and No Country for Old Men–both excellent [...]
Scheveningen: A blustery walk on the beach
We didn’t bike out there, but somebody did. But had we ridden our bikes, there would have been plenty of parking… The dunes are so pretty here. These long grasses looked like hair. And though the temperatures weren’t particularly frigid, the wind made it almost uncomfortably cold out on the open beach. One of us [...]
Padlocks of Love in Koln, Germany
Remember this bridge? It’s the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge that crosses the Rhine river in Cologne, Germany. Here’s a really cool aerial shot of it. Remember that YouTube video I linked to a couple of days ago showing this bridge destroyed during WWII? Back then it was a railway and street bridge. Anyway, reconstruction of this bridge [...]
A Tale of Two German Cathedrals, Three Wise Men, and One Roman Emperor
Kölner Dom in Cologne, Germany The Cologne Cathedral sits on the bank of the Rhine river. It was built in stages over 600 years (1248-1880)! According to Wikipedia, it was the tallest structure in the world for four years until the Washington Monument was completed in 1884. Did you know that 95% of Cologne was [...]
