2015 in pictures with a giveaway for the Vakantiebeurs

There’s no better way to start the year than planning your next trip. Ours it’s still not yet set, but I hope to get some more information and inspiration for our travels at the vakantiebeurs (travel fair) in Utrech upcoming Wednesday. Before I review our trips of 2015, here is our first GIVEAWAY: two midday tickets (13:00 to 18:00 or to 20:00 on Friday) for the vakantiebeurs. To enter let us a comment (here or in facebook) saying you would like to participate and which one was your favorite trip of 2015 (I will announce the winner Tuesday at 22:00 CET).

For us 2015 has been a great year with a lot of trips. We flew several times to Madrid to visit our family and also for the wedding of my sister. We took the #IcanflySAS trip to Scandinavia that I won with a picture of Liam. I had two press trips to Lauwersmeer, where I discovered a lot of the North of Friesland and were I met a lot of nice bloggers. In the summer, we did a road trip of ten days to Annecy and on the way back we had a lot of fun at Europa park. To finalize the year and continue with our Xmas traditions, we spent a weekend in Düsseldorf in order to visit the Xmas market there and then we flew for real Xmas to Madrid.

Besides all of our trips around Europe, we also had a “big trip” which took us to Costa Rica. Originally we were planning to go to Panama, but after visiting the “vakantiebeurs” and finding a great deal on flights, we changed our plans 🙂 This trip was also special because our friends and their children joined us. In the past, we used to travel together, but since they had children, they hadn’t joined us for a overseas trip. Well, as it was usual before we picked up the destination and time for our next trip: Chili in September – October 2015. But that has been now postponed for a year as I’m expecting our second baby in March.

But I’ll tell you about our trips for this year next week. Here you can see some of my favorite pictures of this year. Starting with the best 9 of instagram.

The cheese market of Alkmaar.

Playing in the post museum in Copenhagen. 

A sloth in Costa Rica.

Fileting workshop during at ‘t Ailand during the first Lauwersmeer press trip.

Looking at Month Blanc.

And some more pictures of Costa Rica 😛

Let’s hope that 2016 is at least as good as 2015 🙂

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