Nh Atlanta 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>

... it really is a park. It has quite a few museums around it, but it's a real park. We went into the museum of natural history, which was cool, but everything was written in Dutch, so we didn't really know what anything was, but it was neat anyway. It only cost &euro;2 because we busted out the ISIC card and got a 50% discount. Yeehaw. After that, we headed back to the hostel to check in. It was called StayOkay hostel, and it was super nice ...

... other side is an island. It's completey built up with buildings and once you're on it you realise that there's a bridge off it to the other side of the harbour. Here's a rather cute little train that we saw by the harbour. It looks like it's still in service. Rotterdam is the busiest port in Europe, one of the busiest in the world so there's always going to be something interesting going on I suppose. Not that it ...

... of a trek from the station, but it was worth the work if you get my drift. Laura met us in the park and took us to the supermarket, where we picked up some white wine and some more hertog. Stairs.. . . i swear thats why you dont see fat dutch people (outside the hooker windows). we had to go to her house to grab some things for the night ahead and the number of stairs that we had to walk up, i was ****ed by the time i got to ...

... This is going to be hard to explain. He did a lot of wierd stuff in kind of the way surreal art is strange or different, Dali is strange and different, cubism is strange and different. Modern art is ridiculous so this has nothing to do with that. He did wood carvings and then put ink on the wood and then made prints from the wood carvings. This was some of the earlier stuff, very detailed works based on wood carvings. He worked mostly from 1920 up to almost 1970, so ...

... sad. The rooms were so small. Smaller than you picture when reading the book. The one quote that sticks in my mind was something like "One day I am going to be a famous writer" and she became a famous writer but for all the wrong reasons. My daughter was about the same age as Anne and she was really upset and touched by the experience. It taught her a very valuable lesson about racism ...

... the form of one block being straight and the other curved and also led onto the idea of unifying the kids building, the garden areas, and the new build with a 'wall' This is built in a different brick and snakes across the site and through the buildings and garden areas. Openings in the 'wall' and varying heights add intrest. Internally each block has a total of 28 bedrooms. Lift/stairs, sluice,smoking room and sensory room are in the centre. To each side is the ...

... the ticket machine doesn't accept American or credit cards. We decide to just jump on the train, and if we get caught, call our hotel and have someone bail us out. For 15 plus minutes we are hoping the conductor doesn't come around checking tickets. If he does, we're both heading to the next car down, then hiding in the bathroom. There is a big fine for not possesing a ticket. We have one, but how do you explain you went in the wrong direction? I think I held ...

... home, but we were making progress. Erwin was given some Burger King. Erwin puked up his Burger King. I threw away what was left of our drugs. And we purchased train tickets to Schipol. <br> <br>After embarking the airport train, the weirdest feeling came over me. When I sat down it felt as if my neck was snapping and falling backwards. I was &#8216;Mr Reach&#8217; from the toothbrush commercial, and had a flip-top head. When I closed my eyes I could ...