Bastion Hotel Breda

Ann took Jimmy and I for a good 1.5 hour walk around her neighbourhood. It's absolutely beautiful!! I almost didn’t feel like I was in the country to be honest.

All the homes in her neighbourhood are custom built and a lot of them are very modern looking. This also applies to the landscaping around these homes as well.

Ann’s house is also quite modest and since the last time I was here, she’s done a few upgrades, including ...

... afscheid nemen van vrienden en familie, nemen we nu ook afscheid van onze huisdieren en ons huisje. Het is nu thuis stiller en het voelt een stuk anders...

Nog even het weekend de laatste dingen doen en dan gaan we het beleven. Tot nu toe is het vooral heel veel doen geweest en is er weinig tijd geweest voor om te realiseren dat we echt voor een lange tijd op reis ...

Courses au albert heinj, supermarché d'ici, pour acheter du gouda :)
il faut qu'on m'explique pourquoi je dois payer 42, 45 euros pour un total de courses de 42,43 euros?
J'ai pas du tout envie de leur donner 2 centimes en plus moi, et le pire, c ...

... hollandaises, qui soit dit en passant, sont très typiques!

S'en suit une ballade sympa le long du canal dans les champs tout en évitant de se faire rentrer dedans par les cyclistes car oui ce sont eux les rois sur les chemins hors routes, ils te klaxonnent pour que tu te pousse alors qu'il y a un max de place pour te dépasser...

... Breda: toute petite ville.
Enfin, plutôt, tout petit centre ville, avec les rues qui tournent en rond: pas facile pour se repérer.

Histoire de comparer, c'est 170 000 habitants contre 108 000 pour Nancy. Car ici tu as beaucoup de quartiers résidentiels autour du centre ville.

we set of for Breda and tilburg today for the Roadburn festival. getting around is painless in the netherlands. So we check in to our B&B it is the funky house with all sorts of art stuff. Maria is lovely our land lady. So it's the afternoon before the gig and off we head to Tilburg. Roadburn is amazing, the venue 013 is just awesome (best venue I have ever been to)

... where we are tonight. The park manager reminds me of Randy from The Trailer Park Boys! Well, not a very exciting entry but it may be our lastone for awhile! We now realize that the end is near but we are excited to come home and tell you all the stories that we didn't post! See you in awhile! Jeff and Jess

Despite only being back in Scotland for about 5 weeks I'd managed to do a spectacular job of unpacking, I had much more to do than I really should have. My parents took me to the airport again, it felt like I was only going on a little holiday compared to the last time, 3 months versus 1 year! perception is a funny thing. A lot of people travel to Amsterdam from Scotland for the hedonism to be found there. The ...

... we visited Delft so Carolyn could buy more of the famous blue and white pottery (we are pretty sure their entire home will be decorated in delftware now)! Finally, we ended the day at our favorite pannenkueken house in Leiden. Thursday, we decided to travel up to the Northern part of Holland in an area called Freisland. It is much different from the rest of Holland (a lot more countryside) and they even speak a different language (Friesian ...

... was expecting something different, I am not sure what, but I guess I was expecting the building where war criminals are tried to be located more closely to other government buildings. We were greeted at the gate by UN armed guards, the United Nations security forces are composed of member states armed forces. You were not allowed to take any electric devices in to the building for security reasons, this included cell phones and cameras. Sorry guys no great pictures of the law in ...