Belgium

After the worst traffic that I have ever seen (and yes, it serves me right for renting a car in Europe, I know, I know) we made it to Brussels!  Ellie pointed out later that she expected our arrival to be delayed, because they could see the traffic from the air when flying in.  Dan…

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To Alkmaar…

Once we had registered our destination with the baggage people we were off by train to a small city called Alkmaar.  Home of the largest cheese market in the Netherlands, Alkmaar was quite cute, and the Amrath Hotel thankfully was ready for us when we arrived.  Seeing the cheese market in action on Friday morning…

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