Kimmy InAMSTERDAM

Wow. So I just got back from an amazing weekend in Barcelona. I had to play some catch up for being gone and pump out two papers after getting back to Amsterdam Monday morning. Anywho. All school aside, I cannot wait to share how much fun I had in Barcelona. I could easily move their in a heartbeat.I set out Friday morning from Amsterdam on a short, less than 2hr flight. I landed around noon to beautiful sunshine and immediately had to rid myself...

Last weekend, I explored the wonderful city of Berlin. Me and four other girls took a 10hr night bus on Thursday night. For the price, it wasn't a bad option. Minus the obnoxious Dutch girls sitting behind us who proceeded to talk all and braid each other's hair through the entire night. The downside to having 99.9% of the Dutch population speak fluent English is that you can't talk about them without them knowing. So with a few hours of sleep...

I just got back from Brussels this afternoon. Brussels wasn't exactly what I expected, which was a good thing. I expected it to be very similar to Antwerp and I've heard it compared to Amsterdam. It was neither of those. To me, it reminded me of San Francisco. It was hilly, felt like a metropolitan city and had great views around each corner. We had some problems with navigation. For starters, the bus stop we needed to go to wasn't in service; so...

Last weekend, CIEE organized a little day for us all. So we packed into what they call a "touring car", basically a charter bus, at 8am and headed up north. We drove for about an hour and stopped in a little fishing village called Urk, had some coffee and cake and got a great tour by a witty old guy. Urk, about 70 years ago, used to be an island. But in the 40s, they brought in the dikes, pumped out all the water, and now it's connected to the mainland....