Visit from Annika ♥

Well guys – it has been a while AGAIN :D I’m sorry :P  

(my last post was exactly one month ago)

...but here’s a little update about the last weeks.

First of all I went on vacation with my host family and it was quite nice :) We went to the province Limburg in the south of the Netherlands. It was kind of a center park with indoor playground and swimming pool –jippy!

When we came back I was really excited about Annika visiting me. She came here by car and arrived exactly when we had dinner so she got a good impression about my family with all the kids. She still stayed afterwards :P in the evening we just talked and enjoyed the time together but we also needed some sleep because we had lots of plans for the following days.

So on Saturday we headed to Amsterdam where we arrived with approximately with thousand other tourists who wanted to explore the city. When we arrived the sky turned grey and it started to rain but after an hour the clouds fade away and sun came out for the whole day!!

Good for us because we could take a lot of pictures. So the first station was the I Amsterdam sign in front of the Rijksmuseum which was pretty crowded but we got some okay pic thoug.

Furthermore we walked around a lot while trying to find the Anne Frank Museum. Well in the end we found it but thanks to me we first walked into the wrong direction.

There we had to wait for around half an hour which is pretty short as I know from a coffee shop around the corner where I got some warm chocolate and a big cookie to shorten the waiting time. 

Inside the museum it was pretty impressive especially for me as I made a presentation about Anne Frank in school, saw different versions of the movie and of course read the book. 

I can recommend it to go there when you’re interested but maybe go in winter otherwise you’ll wait really long.

The next day we went to Rotterdam where Sandra (Danish au pair and good friend of mine) joined us. First station was the Pancake boot – YES we have a pancake boot where you go on a ride ba boat and you can eat pancakes as much as you want or better can. Well but as you’re stuffed pretty fast we couldn’t use it that much. Don’t eat breakfast though not as we did haha. 

  

As the boat starts and ends at the Euromast which is really nice to visit to get a very cool view over the city. 

As you can see on the pics they have some open scary open stairs to go a little further. Well what can I say? A MUST DO when you’re here in Rotterdam.

 

Next station was the New York Hotel Rotterdam. How we got there? By Water taxi – which equals lots of fun and arrival in as little time as possible. It was the idea of my hostdad which grew up here and I also have to say it’s really a lot of fun – even more in summer.

There we could take some great pictures and had some fresh mint tea.

Next step was the Fotomuseum which wasn’t that special but what followed were the cubes houses. There we went into one and saw that it looks cool from the outside but is really unpractical from the inside and you can’t really use the space properly.

After that we weren’t finished at all because our next must see was the only still existent older part of Rotterdam: Delftshaven. It was really idyllic with these old crooked houses which are really cute and a windmill at the end of the harbor.

 

On Monday we also had some time in the morning and as Annika was here by car we were visiting the “Kinderdijk” which is the place with the most windmills per square meters. It’s really a typical place to visit when you’re in the Netherlands.

 

Well on Tuesday our time came to an end again :( It was really awesome to have you here Annika and I really enjoyed the time with you!!

With lots of love ♥

Leo