10 March 2009

weather and travel

This weekend we had amazing weather. It was sunny, and if you stood in the sun in a spot protected from the wind, you began to feel this amazing sensation of sun-generated heat. I didn't realize how happy a few hours of sun could make me feel. Then I wake up today and ride my bike through crappy, annoying rainy weather. Boo, Amsterdam. Although I did learn dutch vocabulary about weather yesterday, so I guess that's cool....

I finally have real travel plans.
March 14 & 15 (this weekend)-Brussels and Bruges, Belgium.
I plan to do the following: watch In Bruges before I go, then eat/drink Belgian waffles, Belgian chocolate, Belgian beer, and Belgian fries.

April 11-14 (Easter weekend)-Dublin, Ireland.
I don't know whether going to Ireland for Easter weekend is a good idea, or the greatest idea. I plan on taking lots of pictures of cliffs and rolling green hills, maybe going to some hardcore church on Easter Sunday, touring Irish alcohol factories (Guinness and Jameson, obviously), and seeing some castles.

That is all that I've actually reserved so far, but I'm also looking to go somewhere warm with a beach in May. I'm leaning toward anything that is cheap. Some ideas we threw around last night include: anywhere in Greece, Valencia, Sophia, Bulgaria, Istanbul (we'd call it Constantinople
though), Nice, France, Prague, Dubai, Beirut, Turkey...then we started competing for the most obscure destinations.
I'll be sure to keep you updated.

1 comment:

  1. hi baby in ammsterdam.. have you found the miniature
    village yet. Man and I went when we were little kids. My homecastshow.com crew wants to send me to visit you so i can be a foreign correspondant for a week..... we skype or show everyday... sara you aredoing exactly what one is supposed to do, and I am so pleased.. I'd like to hear how the natives there are talking about us here??

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