I have been saying this for quite a while now, if you have ever thought of traveling to Europe but felt the costs to vacation there were just too high. Now may be the time to make those plans. In fact it is quite possible to see parity between the dollar and the Euro which […]

A Frank View, Part 2
Shortly after the arrest of the people in hiding, everything was removed from the Secret Annex. When the hiding place became a museum years later, Otto Frank wanted the rooms to always remain unfurnished. In order to show how the Secret Annex looked during the hiding period, small scale models have been made and are […]

A Frank View, Part 1
If you have been reading my blog for a while you know that I have recently enjoyed a trip to Amsterdam. If your new to this blog, you have some catching up to do, please look back at the archives, because you have missed much. Don’t worry, you can catch up, we will wait for […]

Part 1 ~ Icon’s of a City….Amsterdam
icon |ˈīˌkän| noun a painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches. • a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something: this iron-jawed icon of American manhood. • Computing a symbol or graphic representation on a video display terminal of a program, option, or window, esp. one of several forselection. • Linguistics a sign whose form directly reflects the thing it signifies, for example, the word snarl pronounced in a snarling way. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in […]

He ran to France and back, all before Breakfast
Is it possible to run from the Netherlands to France? Oops, let me clarify one small thing. Is it possible to run from the Netherlands’s Antilles to France? And all before breakfast? It depends on where you start of course! Yes it is possible if your on the Island of Saint. Maarten/Sint. Martin in the […]

Amsterdam…..My View
Hot Damn, it’s Amsterdam Do you dream of places around the World that you hope to one day visit? Are those dreams made up of romantic ideas of far off, exotic places and people? Mine are. I dream of places around the world like, Prague, Dubrovnik, Greece, Australia etc. And for every dream I have, […]