Saturday, August 9th, 2008
So, I've been meaning to write up the rest of the Netherlands trip, but I've been busy and lazy the past two weeks...
Here are a few links to tide you over:
TV News report by one of the ladies from the other group from the US.
The Levend Water Flickr Account
TV News ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Day 5: Church and The Hague
On Sunday, we went to church at Levend Water. Lucas sang in the worship band and Brad preached. David was going to play guitar, but his strepthroat made the timing a little weird. He was feeling better on Sunday, but by that time I guess ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
On the Jordaan tour we learned about the plaques on the buildings which were put there instead of house numbers to tell people how to get to buildings (see my flickr set for a few examples).
Also we learned that house boats are very exclusive places to live because of the ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
I'm sorry I haven't been posting updates at the end of each day. I have been busy right up until time to go to bed, and internet access is not as ubiquitous around here. Check out my gallery of pictures form the trip.
Hopefully I will remember some of the cool ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
A few tid-bits that I was too sleepy to remember last night :D
History:
William of Orange (William the First) was murdered in Delft in 1584 shortly after declaring the Netherlands to be protestant. Instead of keeping the reformation out of the Netherlands this served to make his declaration permanent.
Delft became the ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
very long day
We all met at Grace Church at 11am (EST) to get organized and to the airport for our flight to Dulles at 4:30. The flight to Dulles was about 45 minutes, too short for even a mid-flight beverage.
From Dulles we boarded a 767 for our flight to Amsterdam ...
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