A Wonderful Trip

I was more than a tad skeptical, given the amount of activities and traveling that the VanUlfts had planned: but it was truly an awesome experience. We flew to Amsterdam arriving on Monday, August 25th and leaving again from there on September 3rd. We visited all around the Netherlands, a trip to Brugge in Belgium, and to Germany (lovely Monschau and then visiting the Moselle river valley and a wine festival and also Aachen); we spent four nights in a castle in the Limberg province of the Netherlands; I got to drive a new BMW on the Autobahn and do outrageous speeds; we forsook our carnivore diet and ate whatever tasty treat Carlo introduced us to; and I enjoyed numerous drafts of Swinkel beer. We visited Delft, Kinderdijk, Maastricht, Aachen, Het Loo and too many other spots to name. William of Orange seemed to be everywhere (yes, he’s the William of Williamburg and the College of William and Mary in VA). The men lost spectacularly at four-handed pinochle. And we arrived home safely last evening about 8 p.m. A few pics: