SeaSands in the Sun

If you are ever in The Netherlands during Spring, you HAVE to visit the Keukenhof Garden. It's a massive tulip garden that will blow your socks off. It was soooo gorgeous. It is only open for a limited time (Spring). That's when the tulips bloom! Weather can be unpredictable. It rained twice during our 4-hr visit there.  Keukenhof is situated in Lisse, which is about 40min drive from Amsterdam. We stayed in Leiden the night before, so it was a shorter bus ride there. You are able to purchase the tickets online, and it comes with a  return bus trip (ours stopped at Leiden Centraal Station). They have luggage lockers which are cheaper than Amsterdam (understandable due to the lower usage of the station I suppose). The garden ticket + bus tickets were about EU24 in total. The buses that go to Keukenhof are easily identifiable by their obvious tulips murals on the body of the buses.  Enjoy the pics!

After years of talking about going to Europe for a holiday, I finally did! I'll try to post as many info as I can :) Our first destination was the beautiful Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 5th May - we arrived at Amsterdam Airport Schipol . It is also where the train station is. Bought a ticket to Amsterdam Centraal. They have really good public transportation and wifi. They have wifi on the train and also tells you the train stops till your destination. I loved it! What we did was store our main luggage at the lockers at Amsterdam Centraal (there are 2 sizes - large and small) - we stuffed both our bags in the small one for a lower price (sorry I can't recall, could be EU7 for 24hrs).  The gorgeous tulips and the symbolic I amsterdam signage at the Airport From there, if you need help, ask the policemen/women or the tourist information counter outside the station. The others will NOT assist you. I was taken aback, they basically say "they don't know...