Update 3 - Holland
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 10:40AM
Greetings from the Netherlands..
Our tour is moving at a fast pace. We have left England and found ourselves in the middle of some excellent Dutch hospitality.
Since the last update we have experienced the sporting magic of a super league grand final at Old Trafford stadium. 80,000 plus made Leeds and St Helen supporters gave our tour an unforgettable evening as Leeds overwhelmed St Helens 32-16. What a great atmosphere!
Leaving Manchester we travelled enroute to Hull through the ancient city of York. Historically and culturally strong the city has been the northern capital for centuries.
Overnight was entertaining on the P& O liner across the channel to Rotterdam. Excellent food and entertainment, mostly self developed delivered us into Holland and a day site seeing through Amsterdam. Anne Frank’s House, cruising the canals, Madame Tussod’s, the infamous red light district to name a few of the highlights as the weather began to sink into the colder temperatures.
At night we played Leusden and our hosts hospitality and sportsmanship was a grand as their magnificent club facilities. Wins to both teams and a cameo performance out of goals from Ainslie were the highlights. Excellent club house socializing there after.
On Tuesday we travelled north to the tourism strong Volendam experiencing traditional Dutch village life – cheese and clogs. Souvenir hunting, snap shots and meals and we headed to Baarn for our next game. Once again our hosts treated the tour to an excellent evening of sport, culture and entertainment. These great days and nights are beginning to catch us and with one – two injuries our men failed to hold off a strong team while our ladies had another strong win.
Today we head to WWII famous Arnhem.
Reader Comments (1)
Hi hockey team especially Danielle,
The tour looks fantastic, great to keep up through the website. Can't wait to catch up in person Dan!
It's almost 8am here in Bega, Aust. on a Saturday morning. The suns shining, lhoping for a nice spring day. Hope the weather has been kind to you guys. Keep up the good work, miss you heaps Danielle, enjoy!