Bilderberg Parkhotel Rotterdam

Hi my dear friends,<br><br>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!<br><br>And I got more great news: I will spend Xmas ...

Het is bijna zover! Mijn studie is afgerond, de laatste inentingen zijn gehaald, en nu is het inpakken en wegwezen... Op naar het avontuur!<br> <br>Ik hoop dat ik op reis genoeg gelegenheid zal hebben om af en toe van me te laten horen, en mijn belevenissen aan jullie te vertellen, en ook zou ik het heel leuk vinden om af en toe van jullie te horen hoe het thuis gaat. <br><br>Hopelijk tot onderweg : ) <br> <br>Veel liefs, Claar<br>

... entered one of the windmills. The windmills were used to pump water in and out of canals. Families would actually live in the windmill. Occasionally the windmill children would get ground to a pulp by the internal mechanisms of the windmills. In 1852 over 10,000 children died from windmill grinding. The dutch have a word for this type of death, "kindersmearen" (think child butter). I found the dutch equivalent to cragslist (http://www ...

... someone had got sick of and decided to dispose of in the water. Rather nice courtyard... probably part of the buildings occupied by the government beaurocracy. The courtyard on the other side was rather nice too. Pity I didn't have time explore it a bit more. I like the way the trams even go trough buidlings. Then back to Rotterdam for the oral part of the exam. Luckily I found the Germans for all you can ...

... spent much of the afternoon packing, and enjoying the sunlight. For the first time all cruise, we had other sea traffic easily visible from the ship. After leaving Boston Harbor, until pulling into Oslo, we saw maybe 4 or 5 other ships larger than fishing trawlers - saw plenty of fishing vessels, but not many larger ships under steam. Between Oslo and Rotterdam, we saw hundreds of other ships. Rotterdam is ...

... to get back to the station and the last train to Athurs home. We encountered some pritty heavy winds on the walk back, quite a feat to stay standing when mildly intoxicated and swaying to our own beat too. While sinking into my seat on the metro we encountered Allon, sitting opposite us smiling. Conversation started and soon he whiped out a small djimbe and started drumming with Paz, passers by were heard to thank them for the beats. Before ...

... intr*duced t* me by a guy I knew. N*w, seven years int* the 21st century, I'm selling 10 Eur* grams *v** and *v** again all day l*ng and l*ving ev**y minute *f it. I spent six m*nths in the Detr*it H*use *f C*rrecti*n in 1966 f*r c*pping a bag *f weed f*r a Detr*it Narc*tics squad und**c*v** agent, and tw*-and-a-half years und** maximum security in the Michigan pris*n system f*r giving tw* j*ints t* an und**c*v** Detr*it p*licew*man. N*w I'm ...

... looked on at the familiar scene around me. In an ultra reflective, sentimental mood, i felt a distinctly warm wibe at the scene before me, this group of people who suddenly felt like a second family going about their normal business in a place that felt like my second home. Sitting up the back near the piano with Martin and Bart i felt like i was watching a memory in the making, an animated scene from this time in my life that one day i'll look back on with a warm grin ...

... dogs in the water, dogs laying out, dogs at the restaurants- it was really funny! Aside from that the beach was pretty much the same as the beaches in the US. Oh yeah, tops are optional for women in Europe but the majority of women wore tops, and the ones that didn't probably should have... we'll leave it at that! SO, we had a great day and we hope everyone at home is enjoying their Labor Day weekend too!

... 8220;Guys, I'm starting to feel embarrassed, we're outside the train station and I have vomit on my shoes.&#8221; Hmm. Fee and I contemplated whether to excuse ourselves to the ladies&#8217; room and force ourselves to vomit as well, but decided against the idea. &#8220;Let's just get to the airport.&#8221;<br> <br>************************<br>It was not our plan to be spending the early part of August in the Netherlands, actually. It all came about ...