My most recent trip to Amsterdam was not necessarily packed with tourist activities. I went to spend the week with my friend Gigi. I was supposed to see her in Slovenia in July, but since I had to cancel, I jumped at the opportunity to see her a few months later. I spent 8 nights […]
Apparently I can’t get enough of food tours. When I started planning my week in Amsterdam, one of the first things I did was look at the food tours available, and the Eating Amsterdam evening tour in the De Pijp neighborhood sounded perfect. So on a blustery Tuesday, Gigi and I set off to see […]
I recently made my third visit to Amsterdam. While my main goal was to hang out with my friend Gigi who was staying there for a few weeks, I also wanted to check off a Dutch attraction I’d managed to miss on my previous two visits: windmills. I did get to see tulips on my […]
Now that I’ve shown you the overview of how much we spent traveling in Europe this past May and June, I thought it would be helpful to break it down by location. Andy and I spent 11 nights in the Netherlands: 5 nights in Amsterdam, 4 nights in Rotterdam during the travel blogging conference, and […]
When Andy and I set off on our Beyond Vacation kick-off trip, I decided to keep track of every penny we spent. There were two reasons for this. We’ve never really tracked our travel spending, and I wanted to know how much it costs for us to travel for more than a week or two. […]
Rotterdam isn’t a city I had ever considered visiting. I had barely even heard of it when the announcement was made that the blogging conference was going to be held there this year. It’s a city that was heavily bombed during World War II. Instead of rebuilding and restoring the old buildings like a lot […]
Thump-thunk! What just happened? What did we just hit? About 10 minutes earlier, five of us piled into the tuk tuk, happy to get out of the rain. We were all a little hesitant about this strange vehicle, but thought what could go wrong? We joked about the rain, the tuk tuk, and just about […]
Amsterdam has tons of well-known museums. There’s even a section of the city called Museum Quarter because there are so many of them. The Rijksmuseum was closed for years due to renovations and had just reopened shortly before we arrived in Amsterdam. The Van Gogh Museum is right nearby and also one of the more […]
I remember watching a movie about Anne Frank based on her diary when I was a kid. I’m not sure how much I understood or knew about World War II at that time, but the story of a girl and her family hiding out in an apartment from the Nazis stuck with me. When Andy […]
Holland is known for many things: windmills, wooden shoes, and tulips just to name a few. When we first started planning our trip to the Netherlands, we thought we’d be too late to see the tulips, but because of an unusually long and cold winter, tulip season started a little late this year. We were […]