I visited Amsterdam on a very brief trip to see a band with friends in 2010 (spoiler: it’s actually pretty much how Ash & I met!), and in 2024 we finally returned to the Netherlands to visit the Efteling theme park. We also stopped by a really cool Lord Of The Rings themed town! Read my posts on the trips here.
⭐ Being Giant Kids For The Weekend At Efteling, The Dutch Fairytale Theme Park
⭐ Visiting Geldrop, The Lord Of The Rings Town In The Netherlands
⭐ #tbt That Time We Went to Europe to See a Band
Years and years ago, I read about Geldrop and how this completely unassuming Dutch town just outside Eindhoven had named an entire estate of street names after Tolkien characters. In fact, when I changed my “bucket list” page to a “wanderlist” page (a list of things I wanted to do that don’t necessarily make “bucket …
My colleague, at one point on our many hikes last year, mentioned how much she’d like to visit Efteling, a theme park in the Netherlands. Despite my knowledge being limited to snippets of stories of Ash’s childhood visits there when his Dad was stationed in Germany, I said I’d be up for it, and Ash …
It’s our sixth anniversary on Tuesday, so I thought I’d write a post on our first trip abroad together. I’d like to think of it as a poignant moment of our relationship – Ash and I actually planned this trip before we even got together; in fact, it’s partly what brought us together, and the band …
