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! :)

Dunes in Katwjk

Recently, not much was going on. Thanks to the great weather which we didn't have here. Here a bike trip to Leiden, there a lot of coffee and cake somewhere inside of one of that many cafes in The Hague.

Besides that, the rain went and the wind came. I'm not sure which is better but heavy wind and cycling isn't so much fun either.
Yesterday I went to Katwijk with my bike to see the soccer guys of the dutch national team. A lot of fun with upcoming heavy wind near the coast when I had to cycle through the dunes. Those moments where you wish you had a real sport bike...

Most funny thing, you are in The Netherlands and go to a training session of the dutch national team and the first thing you here is german. German people on vocation... Without a clue about what's going on. No way! Further more, a group of young boys from a soccer camp from Germany. Probably somewhere from the North as they were talking about the recent happenings with the Hamburger SV and why it doesn't run so well there at the moment. And Ruud van Nistelrooy has to come back. Yes.
Also, no great pictures from the training this time, too far away.

I just loooooove this view sooooo much!

Looks amazing, doesn't it? Between Katwijk and Scheveningen.

Wassenaarse Slag.

Selfie-Time!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Huntelaar!

Jasper Cillessen.

Ibrahim Afellay, woop woop!

Also, Nigel de Jong is back on the road.

Bas Dost, yeaaaah :)

Huntelaaaaaaaarrrrrr!!

LEGEND!!! Ruud van Nistelrooy <3.

 

 

The day when...

you have to hand your bike to the bikeshop to get it repaired as the bycicle stand was broken a looong time and you do the full conversation in dutch!
A small proud moment!

Haarlem!

Lekker!!!

Basiliek St. Bavo

Süß!

De Adriaan. Der Adrian!

Maastricht

Last saturday we went to Maastricht. Maastricht is the capital city in the province of Limburg in the southeast of the Netherlands. Also Maastricht is close to Belgium and Germany.

For us, it was a looong journey because in the night from Friday to Saturday the weather thought it might be cool if it snows for one night in the Netherlands so it was snowing everywhere but in The Hague (it was too warm there) so on Saturday morning almost no train ran in the Netherlands which was fun as we planned to go to Maastricht this day.
In the end, there were some trains running and we had to go via Eindhoven and not via Utrecht which was actually faster that way. And, we drove through Breda and finally kind of saw some bits of Tilburg. Aha.

SNOW! We had snow in Maastricht. And not too less :)

Beautiful!

Stadhuis

Snowmaaaan!

This doesn't look like it is in the Netherlands. More Belgium or France.

Bisschopsmolen

Cosy atmosphere

Insider tip given to us by a local! Awesome! :)

Long exposure in Maastricht.