Christmas holiday 2007

We travelled to The Netherlands by train and boat this christmas holiday. The ferry crossing was overnight to Hoek van Holland where we arrived on Saturday 7:30. After a beautiful train journey trough a frozen landscape we arrived in IJlst where we immediately went ice skating at the local "ijsbaan" the same afternoon. Sunday we spent with my brother and sister and their kids (see pictures). Monday we went to the Sauna. Christmas day we took the train to Hindeloopen and played Fluxx in the evening (as we did almost every evening). Boxing day we left early to Leeuwarden to sail with my brother's barge to Groningen. We set off early but after about 15 km had to stop because a bridge wouldn't open for us, and we had to wait for the next day. Thursday we arrived in Groningen and had dinner and drinks in town. It was great to walk around this town again where I lived for 13 years. On Saturday evening we had to catch the ferry again at 22:00, back to Harwich. We left early from Groningen and visited the Zoo in Rotterdam, Blijdorp. The male Gorilla, Bokito, reached the news headlines last year all over the world after escaping from his enclosure and attacking a visitor who had been annoying him for months. Our ferry crossing was brilliant and 11:00 Sunday morning we arrived home again.

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