Posts Tagged ‘ netherlands ’

Snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef, cycling from Rotterdam to Vienna, trekking in the Peruvian rainforest – Been there readers have recommendations for trips that will change your life • Add a tip for next week and you could win a digital camera WINNING TIP: Amazon rainforest, Manu, Peru When I ...
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Filed under: Arts and Culture , History , Learning , Europe , Netherlands , Transportation Amsterdam owes its wealth to the sea. In the Golden Age of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Dutch sailed around the world looking for rare products to bring back to Europe. They were one of the great...
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? I usually don’t want to spend more time than absolutely necessary at the airport, especially if I’m traveling with my 3-year old, aka the munchkin. While he does enjoy racing to the window and looking at the planes, he’s happiest when he’s playing...
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Filed under: Activism , Arts and Culture , Stories , Asia , Europe , North America , Oceania , South America , India , Belgium , Finland , Germany , Netherlands , Sweden , United States , New Zealand , Bolivia , Hotels and Accommodations , Ecotourism , Luxury Travel A trend in...
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Nature offers us so many splendid experiences, and one of those is the variety of flora on our planet that never ceases to bring joy to our lives.?Next year, in 2012,?is a World Heritage Horticultural Exposition that occurs only once every ...
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The Floriade World Horticultural Expo in the Netherlands takes place once every 10 years.
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Filed under: Africa , Asia , Europe , North America , Oceania , South America , Antarctica , Afghanistan , China , India , Iran , Lebanon , Belgium , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Ireland , Italy , Luxembourg , Netherlands , Sweden , Switzerland , United Kingdom ,...
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I used the beautiful image of Union Station, Chicago from Sepia Saturday as a prompt for this post.? Mine is not a fabulous picture, it has to be said, but it is a station during World War II, Amsterdam Centraalstation postmarked September 1942. The station in Amsterdam is unusual in that it's...
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Today, Star Clippers releasedtheir 2012 schedule for their northern European cruises and they are offering ahost of new destinations and experiences starting in May 2012.? You'll recall from a couple earlier posts that I had one of my most memorable vacations on a seven-day, seven-port cruise on the ...
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The Rotterdam will be home-ported in its namesake city in the Netherlands beginning in September 2012.
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