We made an Easter holiday plan to visit Keukenhof, Leiden and The Hague in Holland and Brussels, Belgium from 19 to 23 April 2011.
Keukenhof was super awesome! And funny part was, we bumped into Julia & Jessica Wong in Keukenhof! Such a huge flower garden, and of all places, we bumped at each other under a huge tree without flowers! HAHA!!
I will post up photos of Keukenhof very soon.
Little did we know that the NH Leeuwenhorst hotel we stayed has a HUGE tulip farm just next to the hotel. Simply breathtaking, no words could express our feeling when we stood at the farm that evening. The sunset makes it a whole lot more special. :) Definitely recommend this hotel if any of you guys are planning to stay in Holland in Spring! :)
We enjoyed every bit of our holidays even when we were in Brussels, where we managed to have a free night stay in Stanhope Hotel because of the Thon Member points when we stayed a month in Thon Hotel, Oslo last February. Again, little did we know that Stanhope is a 5-star boutique hotel! Service was excellent, and the room is superb! This pretty yellow flower display is one of the beautiful thing we saw at Stanhope Hotel. I love how they placed the quail egg together with a pearl on this flower display. Soooooooooo pretty! :)
In Belgium, we had the best rum & raisin ice-cream on Belgium waffles in the park, best strawberry waffles at the shopping area, and bought so much chocolates!
After a great holiday and adventure well spent, it was time to get back home to Oslo on 23rd April, 2010 (Saturday) and spend Easter BBQ-ing with our OIC church friends. Our flight was at 8.50pm, so we took the train at 3.22pm from Brussels station all the way to Schiphol airport, Holland to catch our flight.
And, little did we know again, our great adventure didn't end there. Just three hours before our flight, of all things that could have happened, our passports were STOLEN!!
Now, how were the passports stolen :-
