Holiday Inn Eindhoven

... for another hour and 3/4! An English woman called Liz, who was waiting for the bus to the carpark, took pity on me and offered me a lift - she actually was able to give me a lift to right outside Uncle Peter and Aunty Joyce's door in Puerto Banus, which was unexpected and totally fantastic!<br><br>I had a lovely, relaxing long weekend with Aunty Joyce and Uncle Peter. I didn't end up venturing further afield, but I really needed some rest and was quite happy to sleep late each day. I ...

... we were picked up by Peter, Ingeborg and Maud.When we arrived at their home in Boukoul, Hugo and Twan were playing the ps3 so before longI had joined them and we had already settled in. Ingeborg's brother Renee also popped byto say hi.<br>Dinner was a homemade lasagne, and although there was plenty I think we polished it all off. After dinner we went across the street to meet Sef and Trees (Grandma's sister) for the first time, after receiving many birthday ...

... first time would have clued me in I was you know what out of luck. I guess I was just expecting some kind of miracle. I waited a while to see if the door might reopen if no payment was received. Nope. Not a chance. My bag was a hostage inside a train station.<br><br>Anyone walking past me was fair game and I would ask if someone would let me pay them three Euros cash if they would swipe their card. You can imagine how that went over at 6:50 in the dark morning. Some whacko ...

The main reason I had decided to come to Holland in March was to celebrate my Tante Welmoed's 80th birthday with her. My cousin Judith did pretty much all of the planning and it was a fabulous party! <br><br>The guest began arriving at about noon and included friends of Welmoed's as well as lots of family. Of course Welmoed ...

... move to China! Moving to China is the exciting part, having to speak Chinese there is the scary part. Just to give you an idea of what I am actually going to do there: I am now a project manager for a firm in the Netherlands that sells advertising materials such as lightboxes, displays, neon signs etc. Most of the products ...

... feasting on the sandwiches that spun around in those automated display cases - I'm sure everyone thought I was weird, but I love pictures that show normal life. One frame of a regular day, captured forever to remind those in the future of what it was like in June of 2007 in Eindhoven one rainy Sunday evening. I love you Frank - I miss you Frank. Thanks for reading - it makes me feel better knowing that you are out there somewhere. We'll be together again soon.

... going out on the mountain bike every day. It is a nice bike ride to the gym, past fields of corn, potatoes, asparagus, and I see plenty of cows, a few sheep, a donkey farm, every day there is something different to see or smell. We had a few thunder storms and heavy flashes of rain, I got totally drenched the other day and couldn't keep my eyes open it was raining so hard. Unfortunately this was at ...

Tonight I said goodbye to my girls (Val, Krystal and Audrye) as they flew to England to be with some friends and I flew to Dublin to pick up a morning flight to the USA. It was very strange saying goodbye at a strange airport and watching them board the plane to England only to board the plane to Ireland all alone. It is much more enjoyable traveling with other people.

... by allen ginsberg, tireless proselytizer for the creations of his friends, who schlepped their manuscripts from publisher to publisher for 10 years, until on the road &amp; naked lunch were finally brought to press &amp; howl was arrested &amp; tried for obscenity &amp; the beat generation was in time magazine &amp; young people in america suddenly wanted to know where they could get some marijuana, &amp; a road out of the stasis began to open up in front ...

Dit is de start van een nieuw leven! Een jaar lang weg uit de omgeving die voor mij gedurende 18 jaar zo bekend is geworden. Die bekende omgeving ga ik nu verlaten en ga nieuwe horizonten opzoeken. Spannend? Eng? Ik denk een beetje van beiden. Maar dat wil niet zeggen dat ik het niet meer zie zitten.<br><br>De laatste dagen zijn hier wel wat vreemd geweest, de dag komt ook zo dichtbij. Afscheidsfeestje is geweest voor vrienden en familie. Want ik ga ...