Best Western Cityhotel the Goderie Roosendaal

... I came with my host Antoine, from Lille, in his car with other 3 CS members, to a CS meeting. Tonight there's another meeting/party, so I probably will go to that as well. At the meeting I met my host Nai, who lives in Hague, so that's where I'm writing now, which I should make a new post for...

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Hi my dear friends,

it is now official, I am going to write my thesis in Dublin next year :):):) This means, that I will move there beginning of January 2010 until at at least end of May! Yeahhh, I cant wait to be back!

And I got more great news: I will spend Xmas ...

I've been here so many times & I never take pictures... so I decided to remedy that this time. Dordrecht is one of the most picturesque towns I've ever seen, & I'm lucky to have the opportunity to stop there often on my way to Africa to visit my good friend Colette.

... through the countryside and get further away from the big cities, the landscape really does become quite unique. All of the roadways are elevated to protect from flooding. You can be driving along and see a canal beside the road that actually looks higher than you are. It is very weird to see a boat go past above eye level while driving on a motorway. You then look to the other side of the road and see low-lying paddocks filled with grazing cows. Scattered ...

... to be repeats, but they were taken at different times as the sun set, on some different settings. It was so peaceful and beautiful there that we lingered until dark, not really wanting to leave. I am thinking of submitting one of these photos to be considered for a feature photo. Please feel free to let me know which one you think is best ... or if none of them should be submitted. Thanks.

... sang, laughed, all with the native Dutch people while looking across the street, over a canal, to shops that had been there for hundreds of years! We explored Leiden a bit more (see pics.) We got back to their house and had some Mushroom soup that was pretty darn good! And I'm starting to feel small as an Eden Prairian or even an American. There is so much culture and history in the world that I ...

... could to the 'uncool' position. I didn't get it exactly because it's pretty hard to be uncool when your me. What was uncool though was riding into Rotterdam at about 9PM. Finding myself right in the middle of the city by 10. It's gottendam dark and i got no map of the city and no place to stay. I still cant comprehend exactly what i was doing in that predicament, or how i got out of it. I think fear had a little bit to do with ...

... pedestrian zone lined with all sorts of shops and boutiques. This turned out to be handy for me because my first order of business in Rotterdam was to buy a new pair of sneakers. My old sneakers, which had been going to war for me for the better part of nine months had become a bit rooted when some Germans at Oktoberfest suggested a shortcut to my camping ground through the dried out river. The river might have been empty but it wasn't dried out. And even if they weren't ...

... A female conductor asked the guy sitting across from Jaimi and I for his ticket; he spoke English so we could understand what was going on for once. He said he didn't have one. She asked why not...He explained that he only had paper money and the ticket machines only take change and the station was all closed and he wanted to buy a ticket but could not. Well, in this situation you get to buy you ticket from the conductor but you also get something like a €30 fine.... Now I think ...

... from our tour, another contiki tour that we had run into a few times along the way and a bunch of locals. It was a crazy night. I saw a few hook ups that evening as well some expected some not so much. I think a few people got really smashed that they weren't entirely sure what they were doing. There was alot of dancing and drinking and even after the bar closed we hung ...