Archive for the 'Travel' Category

BS06 Croatia

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

A group of six five guys went to the pittoresque town of Trogir, on the splendid Croatian Coastline to have some fun. I was quite desperate for some holiday – it worked.

We enjoyed the food and drinks (and promoted SpelletjesOverzicht.nl).

We enjoyed the wild life.

We enjoyed the wild life We visited cultural exhibitions.

We enjoyed Trogir, close [...]

Gorgeous Budapest

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

And so the youngest of the Bernards Lab at the NCI left for a 4-day trip to Budapest! Budapest is gorgeous, the weather was great, the beer cheap. Don’t miss the thermal baths if you’re visiting.
Group-picture… Jeroen licking Armida’s leg!?

Jasper and I

Nice

The Royal Palace in the background, us in a relatively ordered fashion in [...]

Belfast : Nazdrovje on tour

Monday, December 19th, 2005

At the end of November I spent a short weekend with my year of Augustinus in Belfast. It’s quite depressing as the Protestant vs. Catholic factions are still very much present in quite large areas of the city. We took a ‘black cab’-tour along the murals, which are gigantic paintings on the side of houses [...]

London : My cup of tea (or two)

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

Sanne and I went to London from October 16-19. To drink tea, sniff up the London-atmosphere, drink more tea and have fun together! We have never been there before, and I could never really explain this to my Princeton-friends as London is not far from Amsterdam on the World-map.
We got quite a distorted image, because [...]

WestCoast 10 : Picture Highlights!

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

Now that we’re back we had some time to go over all the pictures… There are just over 500 – little bit too much right? If you just want to dive in you can click here to see them all. Otherwise you can find a few great ones underneath!

Pretty California babe on the [...]

WestCoast 9 : Raw Yellowstone

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

After Las Vegas we drove to Yellowstone – America’s first National Park. It has unique thermal features like hot springs and geysers (only to be found here, in Iceland or in Australia on this planet) and has tremendous ecological importance. I have attended some lectures while I was at Princeton on research done on the [...]

WestCoast 8 : Las Vegas, Luxor and Helicopters

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

All I can say about Las Vegas is that I was ill-prepared for it. You’ll have to go there for yourself.
Nevada is quite crazy anyway, with loads of slot machines at the gas stations and local laundromats…
In Las Vegas, we stayed at the fourth-largest hotel in the world located on the strip : the Luxor. [...]

WestCoast 7 : Bear at 12 o’clock

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

We left for Yosemite Park and it was quite a drive getting there. After a day full of driving we got to Yosemite National Park – and even though our drive through the park was during dusk – it was gorgeous with it’s towering hills, closely packed green trees and clear water rivers.
We [...]

WestCoast 6 : House of Douse

Saturday, August 13th, 2005

We drove on to San Diego over regular highways and found that there was absolutely no hotelroom available to us there! Quite surprising as we read that San Diego has over 45.000 hotelrooms in the city. We ended up after driving for a couple of hours at La Jolla – a very atmospheric suburb aligned [...]

WestCoast 5 : All LA

Sunday, August 7th, 2005

Los Angeles is quite a BIG city!! It consists of many many many different cities, with independent flavours. We stayed in a great hotel next to the beach in Santa Monica – perhaps the nicest area in LA.
We drove through Hollywood (trashy!), Beverly Hills (definitely not trashy!!), Venice Beach (weird people), South Park (many homeless), [...]