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Gemeente Leiden

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    • Day 20

      Chaloooo Hollandse

      August 5, 2020 in the Netherlands ⋅ 🌙 21 °C

      Endlich in Holland angekommen! 🚙
      Nach den 12 Stunden Heimfahrt am Sonntag kamen mir die 3 Stunden Fahrt jetzt trotzdem noch ewig vor🥵

      Am Platz empfangen uns unsere lieben Nachbarn schon und Marius zeigte uns voller Freude schon unseren Platz. Jetzt heißt es erstmal entspannen und die letzten Tage genießen! Morgen geht es dann zum Meer! Dann bekommt die Reise "von den Bergen bis ans Meer" auch Ihre volle Bedeutung 😉

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    • Day 3

      Leiden

      August 10, 2016 in the Netherlands ⋅ 🌧 16 °C

      Cycled 33km Haarlem to Leiden Haarlem - Leiden 38 km
      A colourful bike trip through the Dune and Bulb Region. Leiden is an old university town. It has a very busy cultural events calendar and a friendly city centre with canals, monuments windmills and museums. The historical botanical gardens get special mention. - all sunnyRead more

    • Day 4

      Pilgrims!

      September 27, 2018 in the Netherlands ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

      Before the Mayflower, many of my pilgrim ancestors fled Henry VIII for Holland. Most settled in Leiden. Here are a couple commemorative plaques, Pieterskerk (their church home while there), a museum of a house typical of where they would have lived and filled with memorabilia and information. Finally, the site where John Robinson's house was located across the street from Pieterskerk.Read more

    • Day 41

      Besuch in Leiden

      July 18, 2020 in the Netherlands ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

      Von unserem Ankerplatz im Kaager Plassen besuchen wir die Stadt Leiden mit ihren Grachten, Cafes und typisch holländischen Häusern.
      Sie ist bekannt für ihre Jahrhunderte alte Architektur und ihre Universität, die 1575 gegründet wurde und damit die älteste Universität des Landes ist.
      Vieles erinnert auch an den Maler Rembrandt, der hier geboren wurde.
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    • Day 79

      Day 79 - Leiden

      November 7, 2020 in the Netherlands ⋅ ☀️ 9 °C

      Today we've been strolling around Leiden without any plans, since it's a quiet small town. In the afternoon we were invited to meet at a squat & had some coffee & beer accompanied by a nice talk with some squatters and a raid in the free shop. In the evening we had our loads of saved food to make a huge dinner and finished the night over a bottle of Jack's.Read more

    • Day 27

      Lovely Leiden

      August 17, 2019 in the Netherlands ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

      Leiden was a pleasant surprise. A smaller town between Amsterdam and The Hauge, it is very pretty, very Dutch, very old yet very modern.

      Everybody rides bikes everywhere. Whether going to the station, going to the supermarket, going to work, going out for dinner or just going out with friends, you go out on your bike.

      Except for one meal that was a poor choice, our meals here were very good, some of our best so far.

      We even found a hill in Leiden, perhaps the biggest hill in Holland, though it was man-made about 900 years ago, I say about because it took about 100 years to build, and then they built a castle on it.
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    • Day 107

      Augie's 22nd Birthday

      August 21, 2018 in the Netherlands ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

      Augie's 22nd Birthday. We rose a bit early and made our way to Café Winkle around the corner for appletart and cappuccinos. Nancy headed off for her last haircut at the local hairdresser while Augie set off to the hardware for a piece of coupling to fix the toilet flush mechanism.
      (Some birthday!)

      We then boarded the train for Haarlem to visit the Dolhuys Museum. The Dolhuys translates something close to 'crazy house'. It is in an old asylum and is set up to depict and challenge our present and historical assumptions of normalcy in society. Something mirroring my efforts in professional life. The exhibit was clearly done. The use of individual stories was powerful. It is worth a visit of one is seeking a bit of challenge in one's thinking in this regard. There is also an exhibition of Outsider Art in the building. The museum of Dr. Guislan in Gent was both more extensive and profound should one wish a more impacting challenge.
      A link to the museum site is here: https://www.hetdolhuys.nl/english-information/
      A link to the my photos from the visit is here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZxZm4p2uxjFT95Lz8
      A link to Guislan is here: http://www.museumdrguislain.be/en
      (Some birthday!)

      We then boarded the train to Leiden; a pretty university city near the coast to the north of den Haag. Nancy remarked that the city has a pleasant feeling of civility and a history that she appreciates. The Pilgrims set out from this town to board the Mayflower and begin the British effort toward the eradication of the native people of the Americas. The Spanish effort had been underway for almost a century before this tardy undertaking.
      (Some birthday!)

      Leiden is also somewhat unique in this part of the Netherlands as it sports a hill. We took some nice photos at the top. Granted it was a human compiled effort to defend the city, but a hill nonetheless. Besides, what room do I have to complain about fortifications as we hail from a country whose national sport seems to be war.
      (Some birthday!)

      We found Leiden to be so pleasant that we decided to forgo our plans to head on to den Haag for burgers at Ich Bin Ein Burger and track down a birthday dinner locally. We looked on the internet (free wifi throughout the town btw) and found just the place. We even stopped by to make sure that they served something other than burgers. Unfortunately they didn't open for an hour or so and we set off to explore more of the city. We walked the canals for some time before looking down on an idyllic looking floating restaurant on the banks of the Rhine. There was our mistake. We checked and burgers were on the menu. We ordered and were presented with two hamburgers that Augie described as having come from 'a public school cafeteria kitchen'. Augie later shared his observation that idyllic tourist oriented places don't usually have very good food. I later observed that if someone puts a similar plate of food in front of me in the future, I'm just going to get up and leave.
      (Some birthday)

      Actually all (most of) of this grousing is just part of preparing ourselves for a return to the States. I keep having to remind myself that there are places in the States that are similarly civilized and have a degree of social fabric still intact. We actually had a very nice time and Augie had a really nice birthday. At least as nice as the one spent watching 12 Years a Slave and listening to his mom and grandmother engage in a long discussion about where to spread Granny's ashes.
      (Now that was really some birthday!)

      This was a birthday spent sharing time, laughter, and experiences while traveling together with people we love. This is what really made it some birthday!
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      Happy Birthday, Bub!
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    • Day 19

      Leiden

      February 18, 2017 in the Netherlands ⋅ 🌫 5 °C

      Leiden ist eine typisch holländische Stadt mit Grachten, Windmühlen und vielen bruine cafés (übersetzt heißt das "braune Cafés", also urige Kneipen). Am vergangenen Samstag bin ich mit Sarantis (ein Grieche) und Veronica (eine Italienerin) in den Zug gestiegen und dorthin gefahren, um den Charme dieser Stadt zu entdecken.
      - Eigentlich wollten wir einfach einen Tagesausflug irgendwohin machen (außer Amsterdam) und Leiden wurde uns als schöne Universitätsstadt (dort ist die älteste Universität der Niederlande) beschrieben. Deswegen sind wir ohne eine richtige Idee von der Stadt dort hin gefahren. Veronica hat auf der Zugfahrt noch schnell geschaut, was besonders sehenswert dort ist. -
      Anfangs war das Wetter nicht besonders schön, es war recht grau und trüb, doch das hat sich im Laufe des Tages zum Glück geändert und die Sonne hat sich durch die Wolken gekämpft.
      Angekommen in Leiden sind wir zuerst planlos durch die Straßen gelaufen und haben viele schöne Orte und Gebäude entdeckt. Nachdem wir eine Kirche von innen angeschaut haben (und für die Oma eine Kerze angezündet wurde) wollten wir ein Museum besuchen. Das, was wir ausgewählt haben, befindet sich derzeit bis 2018 leider im Umbau, weswegen wir in ein Völkerkundemuseum (Museum Volkenkunde) gegangen sind.
      Das Museum war den Besuch definitiv wert! Man hat durch die Ausstellungen eine Reise rund um die Welt gemacht und die verschiedensten Völker kennen lernen können, was wahnsinnig interessant war. Wir hätten noch eine Weile länger dort sein können, doch der Hunger hat uns dann raus getrieben.
      Nachdem wir gestärkt waren sind wir noch in das Windmühlen Museum gegangen. Das war auch sehr interessant, man konnte durch die Wohnräume gehen und bis hinauf in die Spitze der Mühle. Von dort hatte man einen fantastischen Ausblick über Leiden. Ein Glück, dass die Sonne noch raus gekommen ist!
      Anschließend sind wir weiter durch die Straßen Leidens gelaufen (und auf eine Art Burg) und haben uns abends noch in eines dieser "braunen Cafés" gesetzt bevor wir wieder nach Utrecht gefahren sind.
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