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Right after I wrote my previous post, the skies became really dark and thick with clouds. We hoped it would just be an omen to the upcoming rains in the Spring, but during dinner it became serious: it started to rain. Luckily, it was just a short shower and not the torrential rains of Spring, so all was well after
Continue readingYet some more posts in the category Holiday 2012. Where has the guy gone this time, you might ask. The answer is easy. South Africa! Equipped with two cameras, a bunch of lenses and too many memory cards we are in for a three week fest on the other end of the world. Quite literally the other end, as winter
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Continue readingAs this is our last full day in Las Vegas, we wanted to use it to tie up the loose ends. Or, so to say, we wanted to do the things we did not get to do in the past few days. First off, there were a few hotels we didn’t visit yet, like the Monte Carlo Hotel. Even though
Continue readingAfter nearly completing our south trip of the Las Vegas Strip yesterday, we decided today was going to be the day of us touring the northern part of The Strip. The Strip actually is really long but has no official boundaries. It is however said to run roughly between the Stratosphere Hotel on the northern edge and the Las Vegas
Continue readingAfter sleeping in to get over the previous day, we headed off for our first full day at Sin City. And what a day it was going to be. We booked tickets for a show of Cirque du Soleil at the MGM Grand hotel, and we were supposed to pick them up at the box office there. As we intend
Continue readingThere always is a time of coming and a time of going. I have no idea whether there is a saying in English anything like that, but in Dutch there is. What I’m trying to say here, is that all good things come to an end, and so is our stay at Niagara Falls. This means we have to go
Continue readingBeing very close to the border of the USA, Niagara Falls and the Niagara River actually are the border between the two countries. this meant, we travelled on foot from Canada to the USA to go see the falls from the USA-side as we heard this was a nice view as well. And it was! It is safe to say
Continue readingToday was a particularly long day, which mostly consisted of waiting. And then some. First of all, we had to get from our hotel to 42nd street, where our bus to Newark Airport was destined to leave. This meant we had to travel with a subway train (6) to Grand Central Station. We got off the subway and waited a
Continue readingI never quite understood why New York city was called the Big Apple, and did not find out this trip either. Not in the last place because of the fact that I didn’t bother to go looking for the answer anyway. Oh well. The last full day. Only one more night of sleep and we’ll be heading to the airport
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