Amsterdam – Bridges, Canals, and Windmills

I finally had a great night sleep on the luxurious bed in the InterContinental Amstel Amsterdam Hotel! Isn’t our room beautiful? The bathroom is huge, it was like the same size of the room we stayed in the previous night in Lisse! The shape of this toilet is very odd LOL! Early in the morning,…

Biking around the tulip fields

It has been one of my bucket lists to bike around the tulip fields in Netherlands and it came true! Early in the morning, we walked out in search for breakfast…urg nothing really opens this early in the morning. However, there was a local market being set up right in the center street of the…

Keukenhof – The World of Tulips

We have been to Europe in March, May, June, July, August, but never April until this year due to Morocco. When I was routing our itinerary to transit through Europe to Morocco (since it was cheaper to fly to Europe and then Europe to Morocco), I originally planned a week in Switzerland but the hotel…

Day trip to Eguisheim, another colorful village!

We had almost another day in the colorful town of Colmar as our bus back to Zurich was at 5:25 pm. There is a direct bus route operated by FlixBus from Colmar to Zurich, actually, the route started all the way from Frankfurt making multiple stops en route to Zurich. FlixBus is a cheap way…

Discovering the Swiss Alps Villages

Once again, we woke up at the crack of dawn trying to maximize the “better weather” hours according to the weather forecast! It might sound hectic but it really wasn’t; with our Swiss Train Travel Pass, we were able to be on our schedule and visit as much as we could take in following the…

Day Trip to Stein am Rhein and Bern

Sorry for the delay, it is the wedding season right after our vacation so trying to balance “work” versus “blog”. 2nd day of our trip, weather forecasted to be cloudy with 50% chance of rain. The night before, I was checking the whole country of Switzerland weather and thinking of going somewhere sunny since we…

Our 27th country: Switzerland starts in Lucerne!

Europe is our favorite continent to visit during the summertime, but this year we started our yearly visit to Europe a little bit earlier! In fact, we just got back on Sunday night from our three weeks vacation 🙂 The main purpose of this vacation wasn’t Europe though….it was actually to Morocco! It is expensive…

Tikehau via Bora Bora

When planning the French Polynesia island hopping trip, staying on an atoll was my high priority so I was debating between Tikehau and Rangiroa. I ended up choosing Tikehau because of its lesser expensive overwater bungalows at Tikehau Pearl Resort (versus Hotel Kia Ora) and its pink beaches! The logistics of getting to Tikehau was a…