Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest

28 July 2016, Vienna
We took morning flight from Amsterdam to Vienna. We departed at 07.00 am and arrived at Schwechat Vienna Airport 08.40 am. From airport we took train (we bought train ticket at the airport for EUR 3.9 per person) and stopped at Praterstern. From there we walked to our hotel, Ibis Hotel.
When we reached Ibis Hotel, we just knew that there was a metro station near Ibis Hotel, Vorgartenstasse Metro Station. It less than 5 minutes walking, so it was very convenient for us to use the metro services.

Hoorn, Netherlands

25 June 2016, Hoorn

Hoorn, a city in  the North Netherlands. It was one of the centers of VOC, the Dutch Indies Company which had Batavia (Jakarta) as one of its important trading posts. It was easy to reach Hoorn since it has its train station. From Den Haag to Hoorn took about 1 hour 30 minutes, including transfer in Amsterdam Sloterdijk.




 



 

Gouda

 
09 June 2016


Gouda is a small town famous for its cheese. It was very easy to reach there, only 20 minutes from Den Haag by train. The town can be explore by foot from the central station. There were some beautiful old buildings that we can visit. Sint-Janskerk is a church with its beautiful stained glass windows is one of them. St Janskerk was originally Roman Catholic Church, but now is a Protestant Church. Just across the church, we can also visit Gouda Museum, where we can see many collections from 16^th century, such as ceramics and paintings.


 

Greece : Athens, Delphi and Meteora

Greece

28 May – 01 June 2016

28 May 2016, Fly to Athens

We took evening flight from Amsterdam to Athens. We departed at 08.35 pm and arrived at 00.25. From Airport we took taxi directly to our hotel, Astor Hotel in Syntagma Square area.








 

Copenhagen, Helsingor and Hillerod - Denmark

Copenhagen, 5-7 May 2016

5 May 2016

It’s a long weekend, time to pack our luggage J This time we chose Copenhagen, only 1 hour flight from Amsterdam. We had morning flight at 8 am. We deciced to stay at airport hotel, Park Inn Hotel which is located only 2 stops from Airport by metro. First, we bought 1 day pass (DKK 80) at the airport, then took M2 metro and stop at Femoren Stop. From there, we already can see the hotel. Lucky for us, that we can get our room before the check inn time, so we had some times to freshen up. 

 

 

Keukenhof Garden and Flower Field at Lisse

24 April 2016

There were so many ways to reach Keukenhof. We chose to go there via Leiden. From Leiden train station, there was a special bus that go directly to Keukenhof. The trip was about 25 minutes.

The bus stopped at the main entrance of the Keukenhof Garden. But we decided to explore the surrounding area first to visit some of the flower fields (Because in the garden, we can not find the flower field). 

Flower Parade at Hillegom

Hillegom Flower Parade

23 April 2016

Actually we didn’t plan to watch the Flower Parade. We planned to visit flower field at Lisse. We took bus to Lisse, but since we didn’t realize that the monitor that showing bus stop name was not working, we passed Lisse and end up at Hillegom. Luckily, we just in time for the flower parade (at around 05 pm).

This annual flower parade consists of many floats decorated with flowers. Days before, they prepared the floats, and 3 days before, with a small fee (EUR 5) publics can participate decorate the floats. Then, on April 23, they will have the parade which was start from Noordwijk at 9.30 am to Haarlem. The parade will also pass by Keukenhof. The parade will arrive at Harleem around 21.30.