Dienstag, 28. April 2015

Volendam!

I was free last Friday (SURPRISE, SURPRISE ! ) and as all other girls I love to spend time with had to work I decided to use my dayticket for the train with which I can travel through the whole Netherlands for a day and go somewhere on my own. I like travelling on my own. I don't need to wait for someone anf can go wherever I want to. I didn't know exactly where I wanted to go but I entered the train to Amsterdam where I thought about where I could go to while being in that train.

My first destination was Volendam. Volendam (which belongs to the province Edam-Volendam, yes, where the cheese Edammer comes from) is a cute, small fishing village 30 minutes by bus from Amsterdam. Also, Volendam lays at the IJsselmeer, so a pretty nice place to go. Especially the harbour area with the IJsselmeer is amazing to see.

TRAVEL TIME!






The harbour.


Beautiful!




The IJsselmeer! :)






Mittwoch, 22. April 2015

Kinderdijk, a lot of windmills!

Last saturday, we (= the 3 au-pair girls in our street and Carina) went to Kinderdijk. Kinderdijk is a small village about 15 km from Rotterdam, in the South of The Netherlands.

Kinderdijk is one of THE places you have to visit if you are a foreign people and are in The Netherlands for some time. At this place you can see a lot of windmills (19!)  in a row with a lot of beautiful nature. They were built in around 1740 (pretty old!) to drain the polder and are now a part of the UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE . Pretty much worth a visit! More pictures you can find here !










GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUUUUUN!




Sonntag, 19. April 2015

Gouda, the cheese city!

Last saturday we used the opportunity of being off work the whole weekend (well, more I didn't had to work the weekend) and finally went somewhere again. As our pocket money still is pretty limited every month (we should stop shopping I guess!), we went to a city nearby The Hague, Gouda!

Yes Gouda! I guess you ALL know the cheese called Gouda, don't you?! Gouda is a city in the West of the Southern part of The Netherlands. Yes, it's pretty famous for its cheese (but so is Alkmaar as well) with about 80.000 inhabitants so not really a big city. Quite nice city but not really a lot to see. So if you are crazy about cheese, don't miss out Gouda. Otherwise, visit more nice cities...





15th-century city hall!






Travellers are we in this world, no inhabitants!