GilesBathgate » Holidays http://www.gilesbathgate.com Things I want to tell the world Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:35:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Amestedam http://www.gilesbathgate.com/2009/02/amestedam/ http://www.gilesbathgate.com/2009/02/amestedam/#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:32:24 +0000 Giles Bathgate http://www.gilesbathgate.com/?p=101 I went to Amsterdam last weekend with Joey, Trish and Chris. The flight over from Bradford-Leeds Airport was fairly quick and painless, however we did have trouble finding our Hotel which apparently had moved (it was a Boat Hotel)

The first night we were there we met these two English girls from Weston-Super Mare, they were quite drunk and really funny. We were supposed to all meet up in the Facebook Friends of the Amstel Botel Group, but haven’t heard from them since. The next morning we were all feeling a little hung over, Trish was feeling a bit “sea sick”, so Chris, Joey and I all went into Amsterdam city centre, to have a few early morning beers. When Trish met up with us later we all had a snack of Manneken Pis before going to a famous museum close by. We spend the rest of the day shopping, drinking and treating ourself to a really nice meal.

The second day we went to the Amestedam Taussauds waxworks museum, it was really busy but really fun to see such lifelike models. We spent the rest of the day shopping exploring and drinking.

]]> http://www.gilesbathgate.com/2009/02/amestedam/feed/ 0 Lake District Holiday http://www.gilesbathgate.com/2008/02/lake-district-holiday/ http://www.gilesbathgate.com/2008/02/lake-district-holiday/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:44:16 +0000 Giles Bathgate http://www.gilesbathgate.com/?p=37 I recently went on holiday to the Lake District with my girlfriend Johanna, Our Australian friends Micheal and Melissa, Johanna’s sister Trish and her boyfriend Chris. We arrived in Backbarrow on Thursday afternoon unpacked, settled in, and had a really nice steak dinner that Mike cooked for us. On Friday we went for a boat trip on Lake Windermere. The boat took us from Lakeside to Browness. We walked around Browness village before having lunch in a local pub. We caught the boat back to Lakeside in the afternoon, and visited an aquarium in Lakeside. On Saturday we had to get up really early as we had booked an assault course activity day in Grizedale, it was quite an exhilarating experience. On Sunday, we packed our bags and said goodbye to the cottage in Backbarrow, and headed towards Ingleton. In Ingleton we went for a 5 mile Waterfall Trail walk, It was really nice to get some fresh air and strech our legs.

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