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Planning Your First Trip to Amsterdam? The iAmsterdam Card is the Way to Go

By //  by Candace Sampson

I am often amused by how my expectation of a place I intend to visit and the reality once I get there are often in stark opposition to each other. Planning our first trip to Amsterdam is an excellent example of this.  In my head, from countless pictures I'd seen, I envisioned a calm, relaxed destination that we would enjoy at a leisurely pace. Wrong, so wrong, on so many levels.  Amsterdam, was not quite the calm place I played out in my head, and it was much bigger …

Filed Under: Europe, Holland, Travel Tagged With: amsterdam, canal tours amsterdam, city tours amsterdam, first time to amsterdam, i amsterdam city card, red light district with teens, travel tips amsterdam, travel to amsterdam with family, what should you do the first time in amsterdam

Madurodam Theme Park

Madurodam is the World’s Most Joyful War Memorial

By //  by Candace Sampson

Of all the things we saw in The Hague this summer I didn't expect that Madurodam Theme Park would be something I would recommend everyone go visit, but here we are; I'm telling you it's a must see. I've thought about this little gem of a tourist attraction a lot since our return home.  On the surface it's a fun theme park to spend a few hours at, but at it's very core Madurodam is about love and the unbreakable bond we share with family. That's why it makes me smile every time I …

Filed Under: Holland, Travel Tagged With: family activities The Hague, George Maduro war memorial, kid friendly, theme park, things to do in The Hague, tiny replicas of famous Dutch buildings, war memorial

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