My solo journey of the heart and World
After a day of rest, Igor planned for us to walk to the neighboring town on the coast, Getaria. Igor, Belen and Ollie, along with Ollie’s dog Zoot met up in the mid morning. It was a beautiful walk through woods and meadows and vineyards over the hill and back down to the town. We just explored a …
I was all decked out in my traditional outfit except I made the decision to wear my own white button down shirt and I was so glad I did. I met Igor in the main plaza just two blocks from my hotel and we walked a bit to get a coffee and wait for Belen. After a …
I arrived in San Sebastián, Spain at about 1:30 in the afternoon and was originally planning on getting a local bus from San Sebastián to Zarautz where I was staying for almost a week mostly to visit Igor. Igor was the foreign exchange student from Spain at my high school and although we didn’t keep …
It was real hot the next day but I decided to do one of the Free City Tours that are common in big cities where you only pay about $5 for the tour but then you are supposed to tip the guide whatever you feel it was worth. I found the group in the Grand Place, …
After I dropped my aunt off at the airport, I had about 2 hours to wait for my bus to take me to Brussels. I was on my way to the north coast of Spain but it was a monster bus ride so I broke it up to spend about 30 hours in Brussels. It still left …
I went to the nature reserve park, De Hoge Veluwe, which was about a 30 minute back country drive from Eerbeek. As soon as I parked the car and paid my entrance fee, I made my way to the bike cache. At various locations around the park, there are “stations” with hundreds of what they call “white bikes”. They …
I visited the dog competition a few times to see Maverick do some of his runs. He didn’t place in the top but he was fun to watch and did not do too bad at all. On another evening, I drove the 30 minutes to Deventer for a bit more of a social scene and was …
I find it amusing that I keep wanting to speak Spanish even though I am in the Netherlands. It is like my brain hears a foreign language and goes – Foreign language needed? – Spanish it is! Because that is the only foreign language that I know so I can’t stop my brain from deferring to Spanish …
On my first or second day in the Netherlands after dropping my aunt off at the dog competition arena, I googled “ruins and historical places” near me and researched some of my closer options. There were some Roman ruins about 45 minutes away so I popped that into the navigation system in the car and took …
The Netherlands After an all night flight, I arrived in the Netherlands with my aunt and Maverick, her dog. We immediately went to the rental car desk and got instructions and everything for the car and were directed to walk the length of an indoor paseo to the actual garage where the cars were. We checked in …