| Page Views: 4,875 Last Visit to Leiden: March, 2007 | I Love Leiden by garridogal - last update: May 18, 2008 |
Leiden in the Sun | Is this adorable or what? |
I consider myself lucky to have 2 very good friends who live in Leiden. I met Brian and Jeroen almost 5 years ago at my college roommate's wedding. Bonnie married Brian's brother and since he was in the wedding party, I was seated with Jeroen. I also got to meet the boys a couple of nights before the wedding, at the rehersal dinner and since I was there alone, got to ride in the Bridal van with them.
I kept up my friendship with them and when I first visited Amsterdam they met up with me for a couple of nights on the town. When Bonnie and Keith visited the boys for a trip to Leiden, Epernay and Brussels, I was invited along. This was when I was first enchanted by Leiden - even though it was enveloped in fog for most of our time there.
Since then I've been back twice. Most notably, for a week in September '06 when the boys got married. The weather was amazing and the ceremony and festivities even better. I cemented my love for this city on that trip and felt really sad when it came time to leave.
When my friend and I decided to visit Germany in March '07, we were invited to stay with Brian and Jeroen for a couple of nights. I was estatic to be back in Leiden and it showed in that I'm almost as good as the boys are at finding my way around it! (Okay, well maybe not *that* good....!)
The photos on this page are from the September '06 trip. |
| One of the grooms and I basking |
|  | Who'd thunk it? There wasn't a single day during the week when the sun didn't come for at least a portion of the day with the actual wedding day having the best weather by far.
Great planning boys! |
And lastly.... In keeping with my tradition of never missing a good photo op, here's my submissission for the "Supermodel Diet" contest.
We found this guy at the Pieterskerk during the wedding reception and here's to Bonnie for coming up with this idea. Everyone should have a "Pose with the Dead" photo station at their wedding. Don't you agree? | | |
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balhannah Sun Sep 6, 2009 08:23 UTC
Didn't get to have a stroll around Leiden as planned, so thanks for the tour. | Nemorino Mon Aug 17, 2009 22:36 UTC
This may sound silly, but my main memory of Leiden is that I ate my first Coupe Advokat there. Great that you have friends in Leiden and went to their weddings! Was Eleanor Roosevelt a beer drinker? | mvtouring Tue Jul 21, 2009 22:06 UTC
Very nice and interesting page you have of Leiden. Thanks for sharing with us ;-) | spgood301 Thu Sep 27, 2007 18:41 UTC
We missed you there...we had a grand old time. |
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