—•— Hello and welcome back to Oosterdam Day 12! We’ve reached the end of the journey, folks! Today is our last day of blogging. I can’t say I’ll miss the frantic 11:59 pm speed-writing, but I’ll sure miss Amsterdam. Our day didn’t start until 2PM today, so I decided to grab a lovely breakfast with…

—•— Hello and welcome back to Oosterdam Day 11! Today’s blog post is going to be a little shorter than usual, since we did a single visit, went on a canal tour and then carpe diem’d (which I’ve so masterfully verbalized, you’re welcome Frank) the rest of the day. Similar to what we did a…

—•— Hello and welcome back to Oosterdam Day 10! I’m on a train, uh, Again, heading back from Utrecht Centraal. Today we went to visit a promising start-up called Aurea Imaging in Utrecht to take a closer look at the future of drone technology and how it’s being used to increase crop yield and maximize…

—•— Hello and welcome back to Oosterdam Day 9! As I write this blogpost, we’re en route to have our last meal of the day. It’s a therapeutic experience—watching the lights go by as we ascend to higher ground. Thinking about everything that we’ve seen thus far as the country whizzes by a little too…

—•— Hello and welcome back to Oosterdam Day 8! Today was a bit of a break from the education/experiential excursions, as most places here are closed on Sundays. We did however visit a vintage market in the area, and believe me, I had a lovely time.  I haven’t visited too many vintage markets back in…

—•— Hello and welcome back to Oosterdam Day 7! We are officially halfway through the program, ladies and gentlemen! Today’s word is uitwaaien, a word that means “to walk in the wind”, or to go out for a windy day. It’s one of those special phrases that doesn’t quite have an English equivalent. That was…

—•— Hello and welcome back to Oosterdam Day 5! Today was a shorter day than usual, so expect a shorter post. This morning was the first in a while that we were allowed to sleep in, and being the opportunist that I am I did not leave my bed until noon. Today’s destination was the…

—•— Hello and welcome back to Oosterdam Day 3!  Today we headed to Zaanse Schans to get a closer look at the wind giants of the East—the beautiful windmills responsible for the economic boom that propelled the Netherlands towards great prosperity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The forecast for today was incredibly rainy, and…

—•— This morning we touched down in the Netherlands, bright and early at 2:00 AM. Stepping off the airplane I could already tell something was different—the air was cool and refreshing, and there was green as far as the eye could see. I was exhausted, but I was excited the longest leg of our journey…