A Trip to Utrecht

Yesterday we went on a trip to Utrecht.
First we had to take a bus and a train ride. Luckily I brought my new Zombie book along.

Here I am at the Dom tower in Utrecht.
The Dom tower is the most famous building in Utrecht. It used to be part of a church, but during a big storm a large part of the church collapsed and from then on the tower wasn't connected to the church anymore.

On the Dom square I saw this statue of a count.

I also spotted a doorway to a small courtyard.

It had a carving of Saint Maarten on it.

And here I am in the courtyard.
This is the cloister garden of the Dom Church.



In the middle of the garden there was a small fountain.

It had gargoyles on it!

At the far side of the garden you could see the Dom tower.

After our visit to the cloister garden we did some shopping and then stopped for a nice hot drink before exploring Utrech some more.

I saw a chameleon and a frog.

And at another church I spotted a pineapple statue.

Utrecht is a very cool city I think.
It has many beautiful canals.

When dusk set in we decided to find a restaurant to get something to eat.

We had a table at the window with a view on the entrance of the restaurant.

Here I am relaxing with a nice glass of beer after a long, but fun day of shopping and sightseeing.

When we left the restaurant there were colored lights under the bridges over the canals. Very beautiful! A perfect ending to a great day out.

A Special Trip - part 2

We had a great spot on the rear of the canal boat where we had a good view on everything around us.

We're being followed!!

Everytime the boat had to make a turn there were lots of waves.





Wow! That is a lot of water!

Is that chicken on the left?
What is it doing on a ship?



Me and my owner.

After the tour we all went for a drink.
I got hot chocolate and a cookie.

It was some kind of waffle.

We also visited a shop that had these colourful piggies.

And lucky cats and owls.

After that me and my owner had to go back to Groningen.
We said goodbye to Beanie, but not for long, because:

Today Beanie visited Groningen!
I'll tell you all about that tomorrow.

A Special Trip - part 1

Yesterday my owner and me made a trip to Amsterdam and look who I met there:

Beanie!

Beanie had come all the way from the UK for a short holiday and I was very happy to finally meet him in real life!

Here we are posing together with Andrea. My owner and Andrea also met for the first time outside of the internet, so it was a really cool meeting for us all!

After talking for a bit we ordered lunch.
Hmmm... I'm so not going to eat that! What was my owner thinking when ordering it?

This looks more like it:
onion soup and french bread.

After lunch Beanie let me pick out a present from the treasures he keeps in his backpack. I chose a green lucky coin.

Then we all went for a walk to a bookstore my owner likes to visit when she's in Amsterdam and on our way there we spotted an street organ.

And a mysterious alley!

At the bookstore Beanie got me another present.
Isn't it cool?!

We walked around some more and I almost ran into a tram. We don't have those in Groningen.

Beanie found some statues of lizards before meeting us and he showed them to me.



And next we went on a boat tour through the Amsterdam canals!