Euro Travel & More

We were in Hague, Netherlands and took a short trip but a long tour to the Peace Palace.  The Peace Palace is the home of the International court of justice and houses the Peace Palace Library as well.  The do have guided tours.. and you have to make your bookings in advance, plus you can’t go in for free.  Please don’t go there on the weekends like we tried to.. and was terribly disappointed that it was closed.  We were there during the start of Autumn.. and look at the beautiful blooms.. it was gorgeous eh..?  Oh by the way .. we paid 5 euros .. for the guided tour which included going thru’ the palace’s corridors .. the small hall of the justice room, the courtyard and not forgetting the great hall of justice. The tour was in English .. but they also conduct tours in french, germna and dutch. They have a small little gift shop for you to buy souvenirs.. but i didn’t get anything.. for i didn’t see anything i liked.

Peace Palace Gates

I sneaked a photo of the inside of the court room of the Peace Palace, this is the International Court of Justice.

The courtyard at the Peace Palace.  Very pretty.

We had an enjoyable tour.. and there wasn’t alot of people in the tour .. only 6 of us.. so it was good.  It would have been nice.. if the tour guide.. spoke a little louder.. and wasn’t so monotonous at what he was doing.  I liked the museum.. because it show cased a lot of important documents.. that were displayed.. and we spent a good hour in the museum.

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I was in Netherlands for a few weeks attending an exchange course and also to assist my ex-boss with some legal documents for signing.  Our business associates told us that they had to bring us to view the windmills in Kinderdijk.  Kinderdijk is a village in Netherlands.. and about a 2 hrs drive from the city.  But you can opt to take a tour boat through the Rotterdam port.  No entrance fee but 3 euros for going into the windmill exhibits.

The windmills i heard were used to help with Netherlands drainage problems.. and to ensure that places with large area do not get flooded because some parts of Netherlands is below sea level.   There were 19 of them but as you can see .. it was a long walk.

Taken during sunset, a pretty sight. Just a brief description of what i saw when I was in Netherland.  It was very clean. .and the folks there were very enthusiastic about keeping their surroundings green and beautiful and no there were not dressed up in some dutch costume and triangular hats.. hahahha.  Gardening was a big thing there… and I’ve seen some ppl scrubbed the pavement with a brush .. on hands and knees..!  Now if everyone here would be this way here.  The Windmills in Kinderdijk is more a touristy place but one should not miss it.

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Going thru’ some of my pictures .. i found one of Schipol Airport, Amsterdam.  I was a relatively new  to this airport at that time.. but Schipol Airport impressed me. It was huge and pretty high tech,  if i can remembered  correctly.. and it  had a underground railway station with a 15 mins interval for each train and 5 mins for peak hours.  It was wee hours in the morning.. when took this picture .. i think it had to be like 5am.. i had a flight for like 6.45am.  The corridors were cold looking . .and the hustle and bustle had not started for the day.

This was another picture taken another time while waiting to pick up my boss who was arriving from Heathrow .. and of course KLM was late as usual! Several airlines serves Schipol Airport aalthough a little cold.. it was a place where they even find a casino hotel, a very nice spa.. a museum.. a business center.. it was like a mini mall.   I didn’t take more pictures that day.. for when i was finished my pedicure.. the boss’s flight arrived.  Bummer..!! But not before i sent some postcards .. and grabbed a snack.  By the way, all airport taxi drivers were required to wear a tie and i heard it is still the rule right now.

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Amsterdam..! famous for its beer as well as plenty of coffee shops. The heinekan experience is a must if you are in Amsterdam. Well.. you guessed as much as I .. what will go on.. right..?? first they bring you for a short tour in the brewery and then show you how beer is brewed. Taking a walk to the brewery was nice.. we passed the square and then the dam.. and thinking of having a few free beers makes it alright for the walk.

The tour was fun.. and they gave you alot of information about Heineken but the highlight of the whole tour has gotta be standing on a moving platform with a movie screen in front of you. And you get to experience the bottling process right in front of you.

Need I say more..?

Where the beer is brewed.

The Bulldog coffee shop.. you can’t missed.. coz’ it all over the city.

Red light district in Amsterdam.

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