A walk and canal trip around Leeuwarden
Trip Start
May 30, 2009
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Trip End
Jul 12, 2009
Leeuwarden, Provincie Friesland, Netherlands
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
"TUESDAY – LEEUWARDEN – 07.07.09
Christien, Cor, Mac and I were very slow to get started after all the excitement of yesterday. Cor did go and play tennis for an hour but the weather was not to good. Rain and wind a typical Dutch day. Christien and I went through all the old family photo's we had bought with us on my computer and she chose quite a few. After we accomplished that we had lunch and then the four of us went into the city. I just love Leeuwarden. We walked around for awhile and then went on a little boat through the canals. I learned quite a lot about the history of Leeuwarden that no doubt I had learned at school but seeing that, that is a long time ago I had forgotten quite a lot. Before we got back we saw Christien’s sister in law Alie on her bike, camera in hand taking photo’s of us and waving at and every bridge we got to she was there again with her camera. It was very funny. After we got off the boat everybody of course had to have an icecream and then we went to Alie and Thewis house. We sat outside in their garden, the weather had improved to a sunny day and the wind had dropped. Thewis was home as well and it was great to see him I hadn’t seen him since I left Holland when I was eighteen. We had dinner and then Japie called in, another brother of Christien. I had seen Japie three years ago and it is at times like these we miss Gurrie. We sat and talked until 10.30pm and decided it was time to go home. We are so fortunate and really enjoying our time in Leeuwarden with my family but tomorrow we have the big job of trying to organize the cases and repacking everything for our big trip home."
