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Susanna in Amsterdam
Susanna Lee is a former colleague of ours from both New England Memorial Hospital and Lahey Clinic. She has visited us once before in New Orleans and we have spent time with her at her lakehouse in Maine. Susanna was our next to last guest, we have Ed and Andrea Conley arriving on June 1…
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Amsterdam with Family 2
We have been extremely lucky to have so much family visiting us here in Amsterdam. Living this itinerant lifestyle does not allow us enough time to visit our five offspring who are spread from Oregon to Florida to New England and then North Carolina and Colorado in between. We always try to have two guest…
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Bruges & Ghent
We went to Bruges our first week here with Bill and Katiti and loved the little medieval town so much that we wanted to take Jen, Rob and Jack there also. Rob also wanted to see Ghent so we spent two nights in Bruges and did a day trip to Ghent by train.
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Amsterdam with Family 1
We came to Amsterdam with our oldest daughter Jen, her husband Rob and son Jack in July of 2019. We took the Eurostar from London to Amsterdam for a two night stay. Rob’s mother Kiki came with us to visit her mother’s gravesite in The Hague. On that visit while having lunch canal side Sandy…
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Joel & Lacey in Amsterdam
Joel is Jim’s nephew, son of his next older brother David. Joel and Lacey live in Denver Colorado and are very active weekend hikers and sometimes tandem bikers. Joel was a serious bicycle racer in a past life. They visited us in San Diego over this past Christmas but this is their first excursion out…
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Keukenhof II
Our first trip to Keukenhof was March 29 with Philip and Phyllis about one week after their opening on March 21. This trip is April 22 and the tulips should be at their peak which they were. We spent a total of about three hours here which included a couple of stops for light refreshments.…
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Amsterdam with the O’Connors
Neil and Audrey O’Connor were colleagues of ours back during our working days but we have actually gotten much closer to them since our retirement as they have come to visit us in Paris, Mexico City, Madrid, New Orleans, Kyoto and now Amsterdam. Their daughter Kelly arrived one day before they did.
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Amsterdam with Kelly
Kelly O’Connor is the daughter of Neil and Audrey and has visited us once before in Mexico City. Since visiting us in CDMX she has become a Board Certified Dermatologist and is now living in the South End of Boston and is working in a dermatology office in Norwood. She is as much of a…
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Donna & Mark in Amsterdam
Donna is a dear friend that we have introduced many times in our blogs. She has visited us with her husband in Paris, San Francisco and San Diego then with her brother Mark in Mexico City, Madrid and now Amsterdam. We have also had the pleasure of her solo visits in several other locations to…
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Amsterdam, Leiden and The Hague with Hélène
Hélène Maumy-Florescu and Donna Quirk met several years ago when Helene was living in the Seaport area of Boston. They developed a friendship and became regular running buddies. Hélène has since moved back to her native country and lives in the French Alps. When Donna decided to visit us in Amsterdam she asked if she…
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King’s Day in Amsterdam
King’s Day “Koningsdag” is by far the biggest and best day on the Amsterdam calendar. On April 27th over one million party goers from The Netherlands and beyond head to the Dam to celebrate the King’s birthday in Dutch style. It is renowned for being one of the most colorful festivities as celebrating King’s Day…
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Peggy and Debbie in Amsterdam
After a great first day in Rotterdam and finally a good nights sleep, these two ladies have only three full days left to explore Amsterdam. They have tickets for Anne Frank house museum, the Gardens of Keukenhof, Van Gogh and Rijksmuseum.
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Rotterdam with Peggy and Debbie
Our next houseguests after Philip and Phyllis, arrived four days later on April 4. Peggy Scott is our longtime neighbor and travel companion from Boston. Debbie Maniace is a stand-in stalker for her brother Dick who is not coming to Amsterdam. Debbie has homes in Concord and Osterville Massachusetts. This is Debbie’s first time visiting…
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Return to Leiden
On our first brief visit to Leiden to see the grave of Jan Steen we were thwarted by an early closure of the church as they were setting up for a huge sold out choral performance that evening. Since we had nothing scheduled for Sunday March 30 we decided to return to Leiden for further…
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Keukenhof Gardens 1
This is titled with a 1 as this is the first of at least three and possibly four visits to these famous gardens for us. In 1857 the owners of Castle Keukenhof asked a father son team of landscape architects to restructure the park and grounds around the castle in the English style which has…