Sunny Days in the Netherlands

Welcome to my Sunny Days in the Netherlands blog!

Sorry it’s been awhile. I’ve been busy studying… And traveling around. It’s so pretty here. The leaves are changing colors and the air is a bit brisk. And by brisk I mean freezing.

But I’m not going to complain because although it is cold, it is sunny! We have had like a solid 2 weeks of sun. It’s fantastic. My friends and I have taken full advantage of the sun and have spent the weekends biking around and exploring new cities in the Netherlands. My friends and I spent one sunny day at the local museums and biking around Vondelpark.

Exploring Amsterdam, Netherlands

Museum Crew. Not including the guy in the back

Van Gogh Museum

Rijksmuseum

And then I blew the back tire of my bike out so we had to wait like 5 hours for it to be fixed. So annoying. THENNN we could finally bike through Vondelpark.

Vondelpark, Amsterdam

A week later we took a day trip to Groningen and Pieterburen through our International Student Network. We ended up spending more time on a fricken bus than in the actual cities. We get to Groningen and we have an hour to explore the city. AN HOUR. I can’t even shop in Trader Joe’s in an hour how am I suppose to explore an entire city?? Well, we tried.

Groningen, Netherlands

Pieterburen, Netherlands

And then we took the bus to Pieterburen, to a seal sanctuary. Now, since our bus driver got lost for an hour we only had about 30 minutes here. But the seals were cute. But they didn’t let us take them home. Rude.

But it wasn’t too bad. I got to spend the day with my fweeeends.

Haarlem, The Netherlands

Took a bus to Haarlem. It might be my new favorite place. I LOVED IT. I already want to go back.

Utrecht, The Netherlands

The very next day we went to Utrecht. It was like a mini Amsterdam. And we were tired from the day before so we packed a picnic lunch, walked around and had a chill day exploring. We figured it was only a 20 minute train ride away so we could always go back.