TRAVEL AND LIFESTYLE DIARIES

Guten tag! As they say "Good Day" in Germany =) The gorgeous Frauenkirche on the Neumarkt. At the beginning of April last year, I visited Dresden, Germany. It’s one of those cities that’s on my list for quite a long time. Luckily, Bubbles who visited me last spring wanted to go here. That proved to be a great excuse for me to go as well. I remember the late Dutch father who fondly talked about Dresden. He said it’s a beautiful city with very remarkable and historical buildings. I was very keen on checking the important ones when I am in the city. Arriving in Dresden with KLM Cityhopper was pretty quick, the flight took more than an hour from Amsterdam. At the airport, we just jumped into a waiting cab which brought us directly to our hotel situated in the Innere Neustadt (Inner New Town) which I will blog about separately. After unpacking and settling a bit in our hotel room, we went out for a walk in the city center. We were excited! Our first stop, of cou...

Another spring trip I did last year was to Antwerp, Belgium. The Groeneplaats, a huge city square in Antwerp. My mussels lunch. The city of Antwerp is so near to Utrecht, I can literally commute here every day or every week if I want to. So when the weather is good, Dutchman and I might go for a quick dinner in the city. However, this post is a quickie trip I did last year with a friend, Bubbles. She has never been to Antwerp, so we planned this day trip for her when she visited last spring. All the beautiful nostalgic buildings on the Leystraat corner Meir. The goal of the day trip was really just to do some sightseeing, have lunch and do a bit of shopping (mainly for Bubbles). She has seen in the past the cathedral-like Antwerp Central Train Station from the train only so we made sure to visit the station so she could have a closer look at it. Well, we actually parked the car just around the corner from the train station, so it was easy for us to visit. T...