Gotta say bye bye from Haarlem.....

Leavin'on a jet plane tomorrow morning early for DENMARK and dancin' dancin' dancin' and if we have access to a computer we will be blogging more..... Had a great birthday celebration with Paula....heard a lot of Dutch being spoken....and my brain is tired trying to figure any words out.....it's a tuff language for my pea brain!!!

Hopefully we'll be back on later.... everyone take care.....enjoy where you are and what you are doing and be thankful.....

Katie and Chris

Greetings from Haarlem, Netherlands part two

what??? no pictures???? The time here just zips by.... YES JB we did make it to that fabulous lil know restaurant last eve for dinner to celebrate with Paula for her birthday....and YUMMMM We enjoyed Steak, duck breast, salmon baked in oven in butter and garlic and the BEST was pan fried SOLE......

Brunched in the garden de Paula.... and now must get more Euros....help with the party prep and ready our bags to take off for Denmark tomorrow....and then the dancing will begin.. not sure how much blog time we will get there...... I shall try to post some pictures a bit later....

Hope everyone is well and happy..... the weather here is absolutely GORGEOUS....warm and sunny.....with flowers, scattered clouds....cool breezes....cobblestones to walk on ( ouch says my knee) almost heaven..... laters....

Greetings from Haarlem, Netherlands

Howdy ya'll... finally back on the computer to fill in a few blanks, maybe.... We visited Amsterdam today after returning the rental car... The Van Gogh Museum has changed a bit in 25 years for me, but was FABULOUS! Chris totally agrees... his words are intriguing, interesting and BEAUTIFUL.... breakfasted at bro Jim's fave place Luxembourg Cafe....huge breakfast and no Heineken!!! Lunched at Small Talk the ham and cheese and bread are wonderful here....Yesterday we DROVE to Brugges, Belgium. There's a long story here....the Dutch highways can only be described as poorly marked and pooooof you are off the highway and in the middle of a little town and and and...
Brugges was beautiful, but very crowded. The day was nothing like the Belgium of my memories from the 70's it was SUNNY and warm. We had yummmy salads with smoked salmon for lunch and tasty brews.....
Tomorrow we will be around the house preparing for Paula's birthday so we hope to figure out how to down load some pictures for you....until then we hope you are all well and happy.... Katie and Chris

WoW Have toured London & are now in Netherlands

Greetings everyone.... we are having such a good good time & this is our first chance at a computer.....We had a fabulous 3 days in London....good lodging and FOOD and a true adventure on a tour bus that just kept circling and circling and then we noticed a BIG fire and the driver could not get us back over the bridge....alas we jumped out and found our way back thru the TUBE.....Will fill in more details later.... Had a great train ride to Haarlem, Netherlands at B&B Paula....check out John Bermont's book HOW TO EUROPE WEBSITE www.enjoy-europe.com to see pictures of the actual place we are now.....it's a fabulous online book too with so much information for the beginning traveler and those who fancy themselves "seasoned".... by the way John Bermont's real name is Jim Broad ah ha Chris's brother!!! Today is Tuesday not Belgium but Holland
and we rented a car and visited 4 cities.... Alkmaar, the capitol of CHEESE, AND a museum of beer making ( but it was closed ) Hoorn, a beautiful seaport with a semi circular tower, Island of Marken...tough to describe in words here....beautiful!!! and finally dinner on the beach of the North Sea @ Zandvoort..... Maybe a sand fort??? We will try to understand downloading of pictures and publish some soon. Tomorrow we head out early for BELGIUM......Heading to Brugges and lace making then back to the town of Delft.....Hope everyone reading this is well and happy and enjoying your summer as much as we are.....Talk about the longest day, which was yesterday.....sun up bright and early about 4:30 AM and didn't set til 10:30 PM... I bet our day was longer than yours!!! Ciao Katie and Chris

We are practicing working with pictures....and WoW we never expected to completely fill the page with our picture.....we'll keep on practicing! We are ready and will leave the house around noon and fly over the pond around 4 PM.... First stop LONDON.....

Greetings all.... tis Tuesday.... I have my costume all washed up and packed....and put in alot of the clothes I want to take and Chris and I weighed it.....doin' OK @ 37 lb.... Whew..... still tying up looooooose ends like talking to the constable for vacation WATCH our home will be watched not only by neighbors who don't work but the LAW........ etc etc and actually starting to get excited....folks to see....birds to farm out.....Talked to friends in Finland and they will be flying over the pond this way as we head that.....oh well.... maybe next trip we will get to see them....
Wish us luck....as we pack and try to remember what we may be forgetting.....and to think friend Luiiiiiiiza is WALKING a pilgrimage with a pack that weighed in under 10 lbs.....Go WEEEEZER!!!! Until later.....

DancinginDenmark

Greetings ya'll this will be a new endeavor in many ways for both of us.... Chris and me.... the travels and the blogging....we are OFF on Thurs and hopefully we will figure out how to write stuff and put in pictures too....