We visited Naantali on weekend of week 27. The weather was good, sunny day and not so windy. We spent a couple of hours there and enjoyed coffee and cake in the sun. Naantali, sunshine town, one of the historical towns in Finland. When speaking of Naantali, children in Finland will like it very much. Why? Read the rest of this entry »
On Saturday (28.06.2008), my wife and I visited the Medieval market here. I missed twice the Medieval market (normally in the end of June or beginning of July) here. Luckily, I don’t miss it this year. Read the rest of this entry »
Time flies, Journeying is 2 years old since the first post entry on 16th July 2006. Last year, I posted small gifts as my compliment to the first three commenters in Journeying is 1 year old post entry. What about this year?
光阴似箭，转眼间这部落客已经是两岁了。 去年，我邮寄小小的礼物给在Journeying一岁了的文章里首三名留言者作为答谢大家一直以来的支持。那么，今年呢? Read the rest of this entry »
What is special in Amsterdam? If you ask, we will tell you the bicycles. Biking is common practice in Amsterdam. Citizens of Amsterdam use bicycle as their vehicle for daily activities. You can find the bicycle paths and bike racks throughout the city. There even a 3 levels building serves as bicycle parking lot (have a look on the picture) near to the Amsterdam Train Central Station. Can you imagine how many bicycles you can find in the city? Many bicycles are stolen every year, therefore, local have their bike locked with big and fat chain together with lock. You can imagine how heavy is the chain with lock. But, the Dutch ladies just carry it inside their handbag. Hummm…… Read the rest of this entry »
Last day in Amsterdam. But, we still have whole morning and afternoon time for our visit before we left for Finland. We visited one of the landmark of Netherlands, Windmill or Molen De Gooyer at Funenkade. This windmill is located near to the city centre. It is a cafe nowadays than corn mill. We walked further to the Oost district then Artis Zoo (Natura Artis Magistra). Since we don’t have much time left, we don’t buy tickets for the Zoo. We did took some a couple of photos around when we were there. Read the rest of this entry »
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We spent our third day of our trip a bit further from the city centre. This times we took tram (our legs were tired after walked a lot yesterday) to the Museums district. Stopped at Leidseplein square then we walked towards the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum. The Heineken Experience is near to the Rijksmuseum but we don’t plan to get ourselves drunk in the afternoon. No, not at this time. Read the rest of this entry »
After visited Anne Frank House, we went to China town for our lunch, 
I had roasted duck rice and my wife had roasted duck noodle as lunch. Yummy… but don’t mention the service. Read the rest of this entry »
On the second day, we visited the famous Anne Frank House museum. Luckily, we were there early if not the Q will be very long. However, visitors are not allow to take any picture inside the museum. Can’t share pictures at here. How about a virtual tour at the official site. This was the hiding place of Anne Frank’s family during second World War II when German army controlled the Netherlands and applied anti-Jewish measures there. During hiding time, Anne Frank kept a diary. Read the rest of this entry »
Before we left for Amsterdam, friends of us reminded us don’t forget to pay China town a visit. They told us we can find many Chinese cuisines (roasted duck, roasted chicken, roasted pork and so on) which we used to have back home. Of course, we don’t forget this. China town of Amsterdam is located in the Red light district. From the red light district walked towards the Central Train station then we arrived at China town. Read the rest of this entry »
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