Golden Tulip Hotel Inntel Rotterdam-Centre

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>

... be fun later. When we got to the hostel, our rooms weren't ready yet because check in isn't until 2pm so we left our bags in the locked luggage room and ventured back out. We walked until we found the Subway again and had a delicious lunch of turkey subs and "free" refills of Pepsi Light. The soda machine was not behind the counter, so you had to get your own drinks and the machine said "geen refills," which I thought must mean free ...

... I was headed and wondered if I was lost. I guess I had that look about me. He gave me terrible directions but I finally found my place about and hour and half later. The next day I found out it was about a 10 minute walk to the hostel from the Train Station. I arrived at close to 12 midnight and came into my entire dorm sleeping. Very hard to get organized in the dark, so I brushed my teeth and headed straight to bed. The next day was awesome, GOTTA LOVE THE RUSSIANS..............

... and told us that shed had to buy it back off a homeless dude that had stolen it off her, apparently this is common and this is how the homeless get there cash. We smashed chips for the 3rd day straight, the woman was no more friendly than she was the two days prior, a smile wouldnt hurt, you cranky *****. I mixed things up though, had peanut sauce instead of the mayo, a good choice i think. We went for a day time redlight ...

... you know it turned out they used to live in Marske, England, thats half an hour ish from where i live in Middlesbrough... such a small world! Anyway we found the house which was closed sop we just took a few pics and went to a mexican place for dinner. After satisfying our bellies we took a little walk and ended up outside some brothels, i think roz is drawn by the red lights, we were actually quite suprised to see some really quite ugly ...

... me ask directions, or ring for directions. Of course he knew where to go and got us further lost! After 3 hours of driving around (and World War 3) we eventually found our way, which should have taken 20 minutes! We were just going to drop in and say hello and have a cuppa (we had never met these people before and only heard about them from a friend) but they invited us to stay the ...

This is a brand new, so new its not finished yet, care home and childrens day care unit in Delft. CKKP architects in Rotterdam, who I met at Hofstee and DeNaber are the architects for this and showed me around today. The childrens day care has been finished for a few months and is very nice, particularly putting a domed rooflight at low level in a wall which is just the right size for a kid to sit in and read a book. The elderly persons accommodation is actually ...

... jump on their bikes and head to work. We walked over to the 15th century Nieuwe Kerk church, where Hollands Royal family is buried, and tried to get in to climb the 376 steps to the top for a view of the city, but we were too early. Then the Delft Stradhuis (town hall) the exterior of this ornate building is impressive. The shops in the were closed, so no Delft for us. Then followed the signs to the delft pottery factory, went under a bridge tiled with what ...

... br>Walking was not as easy as it could have been. Fee and I were on either side of Erwin, trying to keep all 6 foot 2 of him upright and moving, as well as juggling rucksacks, shopping bags and a U2 poster. We shuffled along with our heads down, concentrating very ******* putting one foot in front of the other and dragging him along with us. We must have looked like Richard and Larry from the movie Weekend at Bernies. The cobbled streets appeared to ...