Tag Archives: Netherlands
Euro 2024 Match Day 12 – Netherlands v Austria
Quick fire post due to not knowing the game was today! Netherlands The Amsterdam canal district is a wonderful area to stroll along or to take a boat ride. Austria I visited Innsbruck for the second time in February. It’s a lovely alpine city. Match Prediction – Netherlands 2 Austria 1
Euro 24 Match Day 8 – France v Netherlands
France France is my most visited country. A) I love it there and B) it is so easy to get to for me. Our first post Covid foreign trip was to Nancy. Eurostar to Paris, a ten minute stroll to Gare du L’Est and another train. Fully masked, a long immigration queue checking immunisation certificates, […]
Euro 24 Match Day 3 – Poland v Netherlands
There will be plenty of vodka drunk tonight if the Poles manage to beat the Dutch, with many building jobs delayed by a day tomorrow 🙂 Poland The Baltic city of Gdańsk has a famous history. It was close to the Hanseatic port that the first shots were fired in anger at the start of […]
Euro 2020 Match Day 15 – Netherlands v Czech Republic
The last 16 tie takes place in Budapest. 55 ‘European nations’ entered initially including ex-Soviets like Armenia & Kazakhstan, the four UK countries, Israel for political reasons and bizarrely in my opinion Faroe Islands and Gibraltar. What next, Jersey & Yorkshire? Czech Republic I first visited Prague in 1992 when it was part of Czechoslovakia, […]
Euro 2020 Match Day 11 – Netherlands v North Macedonia
The match in Amsterdam is a bit of a dead rubber with the Dutch already through to the knockout stages and the plucky Macedonians on the way out of the competition. Netherlands The second city of Rotterdam is far less visited than Amsterdam, but is a decent place to spend a few hours. I went […]
Euro 2020 Match Day 7 – Netherlands v Austria
The last game of the day takes place in Amsterdam. Netherlands Amsterdam is famous for many things, not all of them savoury. The canals that criss-cross through the city are wonderful for just strolling along or for stopping for a beer in the sunshine. I have stayed in both a youth hostel and a luxury […]
Euro 2020 Match Day 3 – Netherlands v Ukraine
The final fixture of day three takes place in Amsterdam. Netherlands Amsterdam was where my travelling began way back in 1987. It was my first inter-rail trip, with my first ever overseas train journey taking us from the port of Hoek of Holland past flat fields of cabbages to the iconic Dutch city. Our introduction […]
Bridges of Europe – Part Two, Northern Europe (Benelux & Scandinavia)
The feats of engineering that have enabled road & rail bridges to be built in the mountainous regions of Scandinavia is nothing short of mind boggling. Cutting right through mountains, traversing raging rivers and spanning majestic fjords, they have been built with hard toil and ingenious design. Best of all, they not only blend with […]
The Holland Express
Originally posted on On Track:
Yesterday Eurostar launched their inaugural scheduled services to Rotterdam & Amsterdam and yours truly naturally had to be on the first departure at 08.31. The big cameras were out in force, Eurostar were handing out Dutch & Union Jack flags as well as free waffle cookies and there was a…
Bridges of Europe – Part Four, Northern & Central Europe
The feats of engineering that has enabled road & rail bridges to be built in the mountainous regions of Central Europe & Scandinavia is nothing short of mind boggling. Couple that with the atmospheric canal bridges in the likes of Amsterdam, Bruges & Stockholm and you get a rich tapestry of crossings throughout the regions. […]
Wilbur's Travels 