Golden Tulip Hotel West Ende Helmond

... the day in Eindhoven so when I finally reached the suburbs it first find an internet cafe, (asked some guy - he seemed uncertain but then gave me perfect directions. FOund a hostel in Valkenswaard which was about another 9km but it was on the way to the border so it was in the right direction. Arrived, checked in - all looked good...

...Which makes it all the more bizarre why I suddenly had a bout of homesickness. Thoughts of family and friends, what I am ...

... and then merrily sail by intersections and roundabouts alike with absolutely NO SIGNPOSTS AT ALL!!! Many miles have been lost over the past couple of days due to this fact.

I had spotted on the map, a place called s'-Hertsogenbosch (yes, just like that) which seemed to be a little over halfway to Eindhoven. I knew that there wasn't a hope that I'd get signs to Eindhoven even 40 miles away so I looked for s'-H.. instead. But even the motor way signs didn't ...

De voorbereidingen zijn in volle gang en verlopen voorspoedig. De reisroute is vastgesteld (althans, voor zover dat kan bij een trip als deze), de tickets zijn er, inclusief tickets voor alle treintrajecten. Het zal straks in de praktijk vast wel anders gaan, maar ze zijn niet zo duur en we hebben nu in elk geval een gereserveerde plaats. Meestal is het 2nd AC, op de eerste trajecten 3rd AC. Ook het visum hebben we nu. Volgende week krijgen we de typhusvaccinate, de rest was nog in orde.

De schumibruder zijn bij elkaar gekomen om de laatste puntjes op i te zetten.
Vanuit het Digitale Dorp Sambeek vertrekken we maandagmiddag (few, toch nog uitslapen maandag) naar schiphol.

De eerste tussenstop zal dan tussen de Udon noodles en de Sushi van Tokyo zijn.

Nu eerst nog zeker zijn dat de blog gaat werken, dus als je tot hier komt dan is dat alvast gelukt.

Bruder i.

... for some hay. On the way home we dropped by a bakery and picked up some traditional dutch pies (apple, custard and berry) which looked exactly like the pies grandma makes! I had multiple pieces of each.
The next day was a Saturday so we headed into Valkenburg for lunch and We all had a go on the Rodelbahn (think go carts mixed with bobsledding) and went on a tour of an old coal mine - one of the last to be closed in the area and now only open for tours. My ...

... rainy all day. It was really great. After a while I got too tired of walking around and just headed back to the Central Station and left for Helmond, leaving Amsterdam behind for this trip. Back "home" I spent the rest of the day relaxing a bit and finally eating some proper food.

... bikes and some were spray painted orange.. We had beers at a few places and then I got into this attraction where the person that could hang the longest from keg would win a full keg themselves, it had nothing to do with being able to hold your own weight but the pain threshold because it seriously hurt before long and my 1:53 wasn't good enough, but it was a very good money spinner and would recommend it to anyone at $2 a go to raise money. Once ...

... külkeres, AIESECes lánynál (Viki) aludtam, aki egy barátnőjével (Csillával) jött vissza Hollandiába éppen az érkezésem előtti nap. Korán reggel megérkeztem Hágába, ledobtam náluk a cuccom, Viki dolgozott estig, Csillával pedig elmentünk várost nézni. Elmentünk a Binnenhofig, meg minden fele, aztán délután megnéztük a Madurodamot. Ez Hollandia nevezetességeinek kicsinyített változatai egy nagy parkban. Végre sütött a nap! De az azért vicces volt, ahogy megnéztük. Pár óra kell az ...

... Weissner between 1966-68 and featuring performances of their works by Ed Sanders, John Giorno, Ginsberg, Diane diPrima, Paul Blackburn, Bukowski, Ray Bremser, Carol Berge and others. In collaboration with Sea-Urchin Editions, Cold Turkey/Klacto has just issued a fine CD containing all the tracks from the LP plus another 18 minutes + of recordings from the project that could not be contained on the LP. The album is titled 12 Great Americans, and its ...

... rock and roll star; he came to prominence in the mid-'60s as keyboardist with the hit Dutch band Cuby and the Blizzards and went on to a blazing solo career as a recording artist, bandleader, composer, pianist, singer, painter, poet, public character and dope fiend of intense flamboyance before he ended his short life by leaping from the top of the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel in the summer of 2001. Here's a little more on this character from Wikipedia ...