As a four-decade Certified Travel Agent, international airline employee, researcher, writer, teacher, and photographer, travel, whether for pleasure or business purposes, has always been a significant and an integral part of my life. Some 400 trips to every portion of the globe, by means of road, rail, sea, and air, entailed destinations both mundane and exotic. This article focuses on those in Europe.
Holland:
Because Amsterdam was the home base of the international airline that served as my father's more than three-decade career, and its flight benefits facilitated numerous trips, it was both a frequent destination and transfer point, the officials at passport control always inquiring after landing, "How long will you be in Holland?" And the answer, if used only for connecting flights, was invariably, "One hour."
Nevertheless, its sights included the Dam Square; the pedestrian-only Kalverstraat; the Anne Frank, House; the Westerkerk; the Van Gogh Museum; the Skinny Bridge, which represented the numerous canal-spanning, wire-opening ones connecting the city; a diamond factory; the Begijnhof, or Nun's Courtyard, comprised of 18th-century houses surrounding a green courtyard that offered ultimate solicitude to senior citizens; the Rijksmuseum; and the House of Mr. Tripp's Coachmen, considered the world's narrowest;.
Tours, mostly outside of Amsterdam, entailed visits to Edam and Gouda cheese farms; Marken with its characteristic wooden houses; the fishing village of Volendam on Markermeer Lake; Delft, the canal-fringed city in the western Netherlands that manufactured the famous hand-painted, blue-and-white Delftware pottery; and Madurodam, the miniature, 1:25-scale representation of historical cities and Dutch landmarks, complete with a layout of Schiphol International Airport.
Although numerous trips counted for an equal number of hotels in Amsterdam, one, located only a block or two from the Dam Square, consisted of a converted canal house, and its daily breakfast featured slices of ham and Dutch gouda and edam cheeses, breads and rolls, butter, jam, and coffee or tea.
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