Photos from the Netherlands...

Visiting the Escher Museum in Den Haag...

World's strangest chandelier...

In the Netherlands, everyone gets around on bikes.

Goddag from København...

7pm Tuesday night I boarded a train in Utrecht which went to a town called Duisberg, which is in Western Germany, where I hung out for nearly 3 hours in a Burger King waiting for my night train to Copenhagen. They are having some sort of promotion for an "Angry Whopper", which I found highly amusing considering where I was.

I booked a 2nd class sleeper for the night train, which turned out to be a bed in a room of 6 bunks (top middle and bottom on each side), with barely enough room for one person to stand up between them. I guess it was good to avoid accommodation costs for the evening, but still...

So here I am in Copenhagen. The hostel I'm in is pretty terrible for the price they're charging (most expensive hostel in the guide book at 165DKK a night - the rooms aren't clean, the self-catering kitchen is this tiny room in the basement that looks like it hasn't been cleaned in years (the fridge certainly hasn't been emptied in a month), and you must eat your food in that room rather than out in the bar with the people who paid for hostel meals - thus the dubbing of the Kitchen of Shame.

Internet time is about to run out, more later.

Non-member commenting now allowed...

I have enabled non-member comments on the blog so that people don't have to set up an account if they want to say something - sorry I didn't do it sooner, I didn't know. Please tell me who you are when you write though :)

Goedendag from Zeist in the Netherlands...

Quick post to say that I am currently visiting Stephen's Opa and Oma in Zeist, which is about an hour from Amsterdam. Today we went to Utrecht, which is an old Dutch city, and I climbed the Dom Tower (all 465 stairs or 95m of it), reminding me once again about how much I hate heights. Utrecht's other claim to fame is that the creator of Miffy is from there, so I bought a very touristy Dutch clog with a picture of Miffy on the front (turned into a moneybox).

Tomorrow morning I am visiting Amsterdam to see Anne Frank House, before catching a night train to Copenhagen.

Pictures from Paris...

Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland :)
Obligatory faux-arty photo of the Eiffel Tower

You'd think they'd need a bigger moving truck for such a big palace...

Tourist trap?

The Moulin Rouge... cut off there to keep this blog family/work safe...

Pictures from Edinburgh...

Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh skyline from Edinburgh - cool houses and the Firth of Forth in the background

Picture from Yorkshire...

Unfortunately no panorama as I can't work out how to stitch pictures on this Dutch OS :) (Real Usability is when you can still use a program when you can't read any of the text.)