2011 Holiday - Part 1

And yes, here is the first photo-report of our little (or not so little:-)) trip to Holland and Austria. The first night we stayed at a hotel in Noordwijk (reasonably close to Schiphol, to 'recover' from the trip.

This was the view from our room:


Besides obvious highlights of catching up with family and friends, there were two special highlights...

One the 'Blessen' reunion, were we caught up with not only known family (like cousins), but also with a number of family members never seen before (great uncles). See the previous post for some info on that (although that is in Dutch!).

Then another highlight (especially for Ellen:-), was learning how to make a 'chipolata' cake herself. At our friends place where we stayed, Peter (the friend, not me:-)) used to be a 'banketbakker' (confectioner). Oh and not only chipolata, lots of other trade secrets were disclosed!



Besides the hightlights it was also great to visit Den Bosch:


More photos to be found here. Of course when more photos become available they will be added to that set, but also will I add new posts here .....