Hampshire Inn Eindhoven

... find that, not only did I speak those 2 languages, but also Dutch, but it was quite difficult, when my head was still moving away from the German of the previous week, to argue with a taxi driver in Spanish, while I spoke to another man on the phone in English and these men in Dutch about the appropriate fare for the trip to the Moroccan ferry! Once I finally got everything sorted for them, I hurried to the bus stop to find that the bus to Marbella had just left, and the next was ...

(Steve)<br> <br>Before heading off on our trip, I contacted some of our relatives in Holland and they invited us to spend a few nights with them. So whilst in the Netherlands we stayed with two families and were treated very well, enjoying home cooked meals, fantastic dutch beer and good company. We first travelled to Boukoul to stay with Peter, Ingeborg (Dad's cousin) and their family Maud(14), Hugo(12) and Twan(10).<br>Arriving in Roermond late in the ...

... I paid and received a receipt with code. You would not believe the expletives dancing around in my head and just making it to the tip of my tongue but not out of my mouth. <br><br>Well, you know by now on my journey around the world to expect the crazy. Sure enough the machine didn't take cash and only took European credit cards that have some sort of embedded chip in them. I tried my Visa and tried both my debit cards. Actually I tried them multiple times. You'd think ...

... between noon and six but it must have been at least 60 or 70. By 6 o'clock most of the guests had left and the party turned into a family affair. The group slowly dwindled until by midnight it was me, Welmoed, Pepi, Bogusia and Marc endlessly telling jokes. Wow! 80 years old and she partied for 12 hours! <br><br> <br> <br><br>

Finally I know when I am leaving for Shanghai. If everything goes well tomorrow I will book the plane tickets for Thursday October 18! It's all very exciting and a little bit scary too. Suddenly everything is going very fast, just a few months ago I wasn't sure if I was going to graduate and now I am graduated, have a job and ...

... restaurant, I couldn't believe how busy the automated food dispenser place was doing. I had seen the sandwich dispensing machines in Beatles Help! and in other British movies, but didn't know that people here loved them. At one point there was just a crowd of people getting food and standing around. It was fascinating for some reason to me. It started to rain and the crowd started to disperse - I did go out and take a picture of some of the people that ...

... evenings I have helped Erik with his gardening work. We trimmed ivy hedges for two and a half hours last week. It was warm work and it stayed light until just after 10pm. Another evening we tied together some bamboo frames to twist the branches of two apple trees into shape. Next week we do some more pruning if the weather stays reasonable. To keep fit I joined a gym in Mierlo, 7km from Lierop and have ...

... eventually making his way to Denver for buisness) and Val, Krystal, and Audrye flying to England to meet up with the McNeils. Karen and the girls met us at the airport. We picked up some Kebob on the way home for a nice evening snack at her parents lovley bed and breakfast. We have two cozy rooms on the top floor, and after eating we had a wonderful nights rest on the ever so comfortable and cozy beds.

... life itself a complex work of art, immortalized by kerouac in on the road &amp; visions of cody, &amp; by ginsberg in "howl" as 'cocksman &amp; adonis of denver, secret hero of these poems,' author of the first third &amp; a human bridge who connected the '50s with the '60s from behind the wheel of a bus named furthur, pushing america farther than it had ever gone before, with a new vision of a new world given life by the practice of its dreamers ...

... je moest het maar iets nodig hebben en het thuis hebben laten liggen. <br><br>Maar zo, ik vertrek! Ik ga genieten van mijn jaar in het buitenland, aan het strand, tussen de palmbomen, de blauwe zee. Zoals ik het opnoem lijkt het wel een droomvakantie. Maar vergeet niet: de nieuwe taal, nieuwe mensen, nieuwe gewoonten, nieuwe omgeving, ... Hier lijkt het een avontuur dat ik absoluut niet wil vergeten. <br><br>Later meer.<br><br>Groetjes Stefanie