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Andrew and Becky take Netherlands by storm!

Posted by santabecky | 15th November 2006

In mid-October, I took a journey to the north, out of the dry mountain bowl that is Madrid to the green green pastures of the Netherlands. With my friend Andrew Meyer, we traversed the country, hitting five cities and towns in just four days. Andrew and I reminiced about life back in Minnesota and caught up on our new lives in Hamburg and Madrid and being a Teaching Assistant with Fulbright.

Our first stop was the Olsder household in Delft. Delft is a university town and the Olsders live right across the street (and a canal) from the campus. The Olsders are friends of my parents and it was fun to look back at their guest book and see the entry from the 1990's when we went to visit them and I was just a little girl. When I arrived at the Schipol airport in Amsterdam, I was so nervous about actually getting to Delft what with taking public transportation and signs being in Dutch (of which I know about two sentences). I shouldn't have worried though – in the end the only necesary thin

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