Hotel Tulip Inn 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>

Sinds the 8th of July I&#8217;m almost busy only with the preparations of the journey. Where to go, what is there to do and what&#8217;s to see and admire. Are there nice guesthouses,? How do i get from A to B? <br>In the past weeks i felt like a travel agency, i kept examining every singel place, thank God for Internet. What will be the plan? After a first ambitious planning of the journey i started skipping a lot! It doesn&#8217;t make sense ...

... quietly to themselves. Right now I am looking out from the café on deck 8, not quite managing to admire the view of the Rotterdam oil terminal. There are many more huge wind turbines here than I remember from two years ago. Mind you, it makes sense to use otherwise tatty industrial land for something instead of just growing weeds. If you want to see a prime example of this, look at the north bank of the Tyne as you leave North Shields for Norway. It's a complete disgrace ...

... probably a bit too loud. I suppose it would be pretty rare for me to write anything else when it comes to bars outside of Asia. The only thing that I find remarkable is that with so many hotels in Rotterdam, I ended up in one just a stone's throw from this really great café district. Whew... does anyone know how hard it is to add the US international keyboard (to get the accent over the e - é) when you're in a net café in Hungary and all the dialogue boxes are in Hungarian!

Took a walk into the main part of the city. Stumbled across a very lively area with lots of ORANGE. People were wearing orange, there was an orange lion hugging people, and there was some more orange. Music was blasting. They were all there supporting their Holland soccer team. Eventually made it to Het Park, right by the river. My mission for the day was to eat loads of Dutch pancakes while taking a sail. There's a ...

... hard... that made it more fresh. I managed to find some cardboard to write Arnhem and stood at the official Liftplaats designated by the authorities (the nice thing in the Netherlands... there is official hitch-hiking place along the road with appropriate signalisation). But actually the spot was rather ******. It took long before a car stopped of young guys in a VW Van and hopefully for me they brought me all the way after the hitch-hiker hell city of Utrecht. From a ...

... car (us included) while the drunk guy kept yelling "I'm not afraid of you! I'll kill you!! Quite interesting. We hung back and watched for a while; the tram stayed stopped and tram traffic was backed up for quite a while. Eventually we tired of the drama and serendipitously found a bead shop I'd been trying to find. It was very exciting, until we realized that the shop kind of sucked (lots of bead shops do in Europe; not sure if their supplies are ...

... the briefing with a few words. Charles Teige, the Enchantment's captain, and who also oversees all RCL's new ship builds, Keppel Verolme Managing Director Harold W.M. Linssen Harry Kulovaara, EVP for new building were there to answer questions. Bost most were directed to Charles Teige. He compared the stretch to "a big Swiss watch, when everything has to come together. It has to strike 12 noon when your work is done, not five after or five of ...

... van Beieren Keukenhof fell into the hands of rich merchant families. Baron and baroness Van Pallandt invited landscape architects J.D. and L.F. Zocher, designers of the Amsterdam ...