Tulip Inn Oosterhout

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 ...

I've been here so many times &amp; I never take pictures... so I decided to remedy that this time. Dordrecht is one of the most picturesque towns I've ever seen, &amp; I'm lucky to have the opportunity to stop there often on my way to Africa to visit my good friend Colette.<br>

... 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 ...

... zo uit zien: 23 nov aankomst bangkok 27 nov Chiang mai 2 dec Laos Luang Prabang 5 dec Vang Vieng 8 dec Vientiane 12 dec Vietnam Hanoi 15 dec Halong Bay boottocht 2/3 dgn 19 dec Hue 23 dec Hoi An 27 dec Nha Trang 31 dec Dalat 3 jan Saigon 8 jan ...

We got up at 4:45 to catch a bus to go to the Train station to get our tickets to go on a bus to go on a ferry to get to Hoek van Holland (The Hook of Holland). We met this nice old woman and talked to her all the way to the Netherlands. It was odd leaving such a huge city I had only spent 2 days in. Very mixed feelings but I'm sure I'll get used to that seeing Western Europe in just 3 months. The ferry was more like a cruise ship and I slept ...

... I managed to find a subway that went under the river, dividing the north and south side of the city, where there wasn't a bridge in sight. I punched on north until i found a narrow strip of grass beside Rotterdam Airport. It was well after midnight when i pitched my tent, locked my bike up and had chocolate digestives for dinner. Scary stuff. I'll put it down on the experience list, and will try avoiding a repeat performance.

... check if our new 2Gb SD card James (Rob's brother) gave us works on his laptop (it doesn't)... So we're looking for a cable connector between the camera and the computer. As soon as that is fixed, we'll post some pictures! And finally, for those who know that I don't drink coffee... well, jetlag has forced me to return to the dark side. Coffee tastes so different here (just like Coke). I'll keep you updated! Chris and Rob

We gave it another go and it's still aining in Holland. I wonder if has actually stopped while we were away? Gouda provided us with a car parking that we could a) park in (no height barrier AND a big enough space) and b) ley us park in overnight - a very rare event in Southern Holland. We hade spent too much time in Germany on the way here so we didn't bother trying to see much else of the country .... we will have to do that another time

This morning we got up at about 7:30 and quickly had breakfast before we headed out at 9. I'm not sure if everyone was on the bus this morning. I think a few people may have slept in or not felt up to the early start. I heard that there were some others that had a really late night. After breakfast we got on the bus and headed for the Gassan Diamond Factory where we were ...

Ako by to bolo, keby som sa tulal po svete ako bludny Holandan a nezavital do bludnym Holandanom Zeme zasvatenej - do Holandska. Osobne som este nestretol Holandana s ktorym by bola nuda (a ak takeho poznate, tak mam s nim, prosim vas, nezoznamujte), tak som sa jednak tesil, ze stretnem mojich starych kamosov, ktorych poznam z Aten a Polska, ale aj novych kamosov, co som ich spoznam v Blave a Londyne. Najprv som letel z ...