Sunday 19 May 2013 We woke to fine weather on Sunday. After breakfast, we cleaned the apartment and packed our bags to leave. We were heading to Breda, to visit Rowena Crowe, one of Susie’s friends from Film School. Rowena had moved to Breda from Maroubra in Sydney to Live with Marielle Hornstra and Marielle’s…
Tag: Netherlands
Tilburg day 3
Saturday 18 May 2013 We began the day by booking our transport from Antwerp to Paris. We then went for walk to a wonderful antiquarian bookshop that Ruby and Susie had discovered on their op-shopping adventures a few days before. It was full of stuff from monasteries, including replica statuettes of Mary and the baby…
Tilburg day 2
Friday 17 May 2013 The next morning Ruby woke up with a sore face. It was more swollen than Marlon Brando’s had been the night before. We looked up the address of a doctor in Tilburg and went to his well-appointed surgery, where we were informed by an officious receptionist that the doctor was not…
Amsterdam—Tilburg day 1
Thursday 16 May 2013 I woke with the birds at 4:30 a.m., still jet-lagged. We packed up, had a decent coffee in the local Italian café and boarded a tram to Central Station where we bought a ticket to Tilburg. The intercity train was incredibly fast by Australian standards, and it even had Wi-Fi on…
Amsterdam day 2
Wednesday 15 May 2013 We decided to spend most of the day at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. In order to avoid the expected queues, we purchased our tickets online and then discovered an annoying remnant of the pre-digital age: the museum required a printout of the tickets. And so we had to go downstairs and…
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