Sunday, November 1, 2009

The family!


War Cemetery in Germany, right on the Dutch border. There were so many Tomb Stones with no names...


Hello Frans!


Aunt Gemma.


Elli and Paul.


Van Riet is my mother's Maiden name, and this is my Aunty's florist business!


Long enough? The street my Opa grew up on.


My Opa's home!


50km bike ride with Frans, he's a speed demon. 


Roger has a backyard filled with so many types of Lizards and fish. So cool!


Smoooch?


Julia's amazing cooking! She fed us very very well.





It's pretty common for the Dutch to eat raw herring with onions. Roger had to finish it off for us, not really our thing..


Dutch clogs. There you go mum.


So Dutch.


They just had this growing at an open air museum we went to, crazy Dutchmens.








Frans and Julia. Such beautiful people.

Amsterdam!

Never have I seen so many canals!


These things are for real, they are actually very common throughout the country. I was pretending to buy one, seriously!


Anne Frank House. Just amazing!


The window they used to peak out of.


Anne's ACTUAL diary.


Amsterdam is a very very beautiful city!





Ha ha.





Dam Square.


Amsterdam was a very confusing city, so easy to get lost, I dunno if that's got anything to do with the coffee shops? Ha ha.


Came across this in someone's window... weirddd.


Knarly shit! Do people actually do this?


What everyone goes to Amsterdam to see.


There are bikes everywhere.





Goodbye Amsterdam, Hello Relatives!

Bruges in Belgium.

The first time I saw a Windmill!


Bruges - Old town.


And another..





Groovy bulidings.


Lots of beautiful canals.


A pretty park.


Marty went to buy a bottle of water, and comes across an ale of his own!


You can ride all day long. Belgium, just like The Netherlands is flat.


We came across a pet Ostrich .





We ventured off on our bicycles to the beach (who would have thought, Belgium with a beach?) 


Typical farm house.





Bruges - Old Town.