miedje's VirtualTourist Home Page

Send Photo to a Friend

me in Zakynthos

Christie Miedema. Loving to travel, to learn languages, to meet other people. Nice to meet you! Piacere, aangenaam, encantada! I live in Utrecht, which is a beautiful city in the centre of the Netherlands. I lived in the Netherlands the greatest part of my life, the only exception are the seven wonderful months I spent in Siena, Italy. I'd love to be able to arrange some other longer stays abroad. At the moment I'm thinking about Berlin, London or Barcelona. Fortunately I am blessed with parents who love to travel, so before my 18th birthday I had already seen the biggest part of western Europe and some places in the US, Canada and South Africa. And still they take me and my sister on travels we couldn't afford ourselves, like the trips to Istanbul and New York we made the last years.
I'd love to make trips far away on my own, but my state as a students confines me to western Europe (though I travel often enough).
I hope my site will help you to get some tips for your trip. Except for the regular tips also tips which books to read and what to eat being a vegetarian like myself. If you got any particular questions, don't hesitate to ask!

Send Photo to a Friend

Greece

Book tips

Check my packing list tips, because I am planning to add some reading tips to all the destinations.
Holidays are the best times to read, but not to much of course, because you'd also want to see the most beautiful things of the country.
I'll list the books that have something to do with the destination.
I already made my tips for Rome, Barcelona, Greece, Italy, Verona, Strasbourg and Zakynthos. Others will be added soon.

Send Photo to a Friend

dinnertime in a township in South Africa

Food tips for vegetarians

Beside my tips for readers I will also add some extra tips for vegetarians. Being a vegetarian myself I know it's sometimes difficult getting enough replacements for meat or eating vegetarian at all in restaurants by example. I'll list them under the local customs tips, why? Well, I don't know where it fits exactly, and I think food has someting to do with the local customs, hasn't it?
I already added my tip for South Africa and I'll be adding those for Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece soon.

Send Photo to a Friend

Dutch coast in winter

Last travels

July 2003: 3 weeks Italy to improve my Italian
August 2003: 10 days Spain with a friend of mine
August 2003: 4 days in the Elsace for a festival (I had to dance there)
October 2003: 1 day hich-hike game to Antwerp
November 2003: 10 days Lissabon with my study-organisation
December 2003: a weekend at the Dutch coast
February 2004: a weekend to London
March 2004: a trip to the europarliament in Brussels and after discovering Leuvens nightlife
Easter 2004: a weekend Istanbul with my parents and sister
April 2004: a week Sicily with the ancient history and medieval history sections of my study
June 2004: a weekend to the Dutch island Schiermonnikoog with my study-organisation
July 2004: 10 days backpacking in Rome and Naples with two friends of mine
August 2004 - February 2005: study abroad in Siena with trips to Rome, Verona, Bologna, Florence and two trips back to the Netherlands
May 2005: a trip to Siena and Rome to visit the friends in Italy I started missing
June 2005: a weekend on Ameland (Dutch island)
August 2005: 3 days on a festival in Blain, Brittany, France (dancing again)

Send Photo to a Friend

duomo - Firenze

Planned travels

August 2005: Barcelona
September 2005: Yichang, China

Send Photo to a Friend

Dutch coast in winter

Last trip

A week sicily with only history students! Can it be better? I've seen beautiful medieval mosaics and ancient temples. It was all beautiful and furthermore.. a chance to practise my italian.
Parlermo is really a beautiful city. A had never been there before. And Sicily, which I had seen before is so much more wonderful in spring than in summer!