Novotel Eindhoven

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 ...

... br><br>Walking around here it's like the bad mood fairy paid everyone a visit and just dumped on this town. The people look absolutely glum with sour looks and clothing that is mostly brown, black and dark grey. I am not making this up...their skin actually looks as grey and lifeless as the buildings. You know how in America we will walk past a stranger and smile or nod our heads or even say hey? No big deal, right? I smiled at a woman who was walking opposite ...

... attitude. Allorah, after the Anne Frank, i began to head back to my hotel, but stumbled across the homo monument...it speaks for itself. it is dedicated to all who have been persecuted because of their sexuality. Naturally, i was again moved. Then i came across the tulip museum. Humble but cute... i enjoyed the tribute to flowers albeit at a cost of 4 euro. On my walk, i encountered the flower market...A fabulous experience being from a ...

... kids were there: my cousins Marc, Taco &amp; Judith were there along with Judith's husband Taeke and son Wouter. My sister Henriette came from Hoorn and my sister Jaaike and her husband Horst came from Germany. There was even family from my mother's side - my cousin Pepi and his wife Bogusia from England. <br><br><br>Jaaike ...

... the people, along from Simon, I got to know decently well and really enjoyed their company. They'd be the kind of people I'd have as friends back home. So I enjoyed that. As for the music, most of the bands/acts I saw were really good. But the Folkaholics were great! Seven guys in the band playing Irish folk instruments and songs. But they had the added benefit of being backed up with a 40 person orchestra! Because of the set up time involved, they ...

... Singapore, but that was ok,, there was free internet access in the airport and I had a lovely cup of coffee, luckily I had some English money. We left Singapore at 7:45pm for the last leg of my journey, this was 7 hours long, but it felt much longer since it was really my day time, but it was dark out side. Time was beginning to feel a little strange. I arrived in Sydney at 5:20am, with a nice smooth landing by BA. I automatically felt ...

... aisles and timber barrel-vaults: more related to "Hallenkirche" (church hall) type than the Basilica. It has decorated capitals, mausolea, memorials, chandeliers, copper choir screen. It has a contemporary baptismal font and three organs (all built by the Danish Marcussen Company). The basis for the main organ is one solid piece of Italian marble. There are bronze doors which are the design of an Italian sculptor who also designed those for St. Peter's in Rome and Salzburg ...

... 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

... Matt, Nina, Marieke and I went to PSV's Philips Stadion to watch the first training session of PSV Eindhoven's season. It was cool and I was glad to shop in the team store despite Marieke's insistence that I spend too much money on soccer. Bah. That day we came home and watched CNN to find that London had been hit by a terrorist attack, we weren't too excited about it, this is becomming ...

... but the vinyl floor is everywhere, carpet would make a huge difference. The glazed corridor is too narrow and some bedroom windows look onto this -with loss of privacy and ventilation. The main entrance too is very pinched and not obvious. But overall a nice building and I will try and get some floor plans - it was a different architect to Hofstee. So, Hofstee is a largely successful use of an existing building and a way of accommodating dementia care on upper ...