While Dan’s parents visited last week, we spent three days in Amsterdam. We explored several museums, toured the city on our own and with a guide, and took a bus tour to the Alkmaar Cheesemarket & to see some windmills. I think it was a good trip and with some adjustments, it could [...]

If you like museums and live or plan on visiting the Netherlands, you should do yourself a favor and pick up a yearly Museumkaart. We finally purchased ours and I really wish we had done it sooner. I can think of several museum trips I’ve taken that would have free with this card.
The Museumkaart [...]

Two days on the Rhine were somehow how too much and not enough time for me. On one hand the area we visited between Koblenz and Bacharach is absolutely gorgeous and has villages that are the definition of quaint (in a good way). On the other, we discovered that we can’t stand driving vacations [...]

My parents visited back in August so it is only fair that Dan’s parents, Sue & Gary, came to the Netherlands for a two week vacation of their own. Last week they arrived in Amsterdam and then took the train down here to Maastricht to join us for Preuvenemint and the (now regular) visit [...]

In celebration of our 5th year anniversary, Dan & I decided to make a special, comics-themed, trip to Brussels, Belgium. This year Belgium is having a series of comics related events, many of which are located in Brussels, but we didn’t expect to see as much as we did. It turns out that Brussels [...]