What better way to celebrate Dougie’s 60th birthday than a 10 day Uniworld Tulips and Windmills river cruise in the Netherlands and Belgium. We’ve cruised with Uniworld before: a fabulous trip down the Seine...
Rhine-Main Cruise with Emerald Waterways: Amsterdam
View from glass-top canal boat tour How fabulous to start our Emerald Waterways cruise in Amsterdam, a city we had only recently fallen in love with during our short trip in October last year. After...
Our Rhine Cruise with Emerald Waterways: the ship
Dougie in front of Emerald Star For years I’ve wanted to try out a river cruise. Dougie and I promised ourselves that once Rory was at university, we would definitely give it a try....
Review: Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam
If you want to meet a cosmopolitan, fun bunch of people, may I suggest the elevators in the Mövenpick Hotel in Amsterdam. I don’t think I have ever conversed so much with other people...
48 hours in Amsterdam – Part Two
I left you at lunchtime on the Saturday afternoon in 48 hours in Amsterdam – Part One having had a wet afternoon on a canal cruise, a chilled evening at the Van Gogh Museum and...
48 hours in Amsterdam – Part One
“I took a wrong turn on the way to the hotel and for several hours wandered aimlessly, shops decorated with glass baubles and grey dream alleys with unpronounceable names, gilded buddhas and Asian embroideries,...
Humberside Airport to Schiphol, Amsterdam with KLM
We’re back from a fabulous weekend in Amsterdam You’ll have to wait just a little longer to hear our tales from the city as I wanted to share our experience of flying from Humberside...
Flying to Amsterdam with KLM
Sweaty palms, heart thumping, stomach churning, clock-watching, arguing…. The symptoms many of us exhibit if we are catching a flight to go on holiday. No matter how experienced we may be at flying, the...