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Travel Blogs from Hoek van Holland
Almost home
I continued west to Groningen, I have been here before, it is a nice city, I planned to stop for lunch in the centre but it was too tricky parking and negotiating all the pedestrian only streets! I tried but gave up cyclists giving me no mercy passing in front and either side in normal kamikaze mode!
I found myself a bit lost but spotted a sign for the A7, the right general direction.
It had started to rain ...
Currency and language problems
... my ticket. The old man probably didn't understand a word of what I said and looked **** scared upon my request. I tried again with a middle aged couple but got refused. It was the first time I felt that life is probably not so easy in a strange land where people hardly speak the same language.
I took my luggage and walked to the nearest market. I asked the lady at the cash counter to give me change in coins for Euro 20 note. She also refused. I lost all hope and ...
Nearly dry solid land again
... br> I always feel this is where the journey really begins, into the unfamiliar. Even so Holland is hardly unfamiliar territory, but it is not UK.
It is off to the Rotterdam ring road. While great for getting about, I find the efficiency of the European Auto-route system pretty boring especially at the 85 - 90kph (about 55mph) I travel at. Partly due to ...
Die siebte Woche im fernen Den Haag
... zu bringen. Da hab ich dann Elisa beim schwimmen zugeschaut und danach sind wir dann nach Hause gefahren. Das Abendessen gestaltete sich etwas schwieriger, weils Elisa gar nicht gut ging. Elisa ist dann am Donnerstag zuhause geblieben, weil es ihr ganz und gar nicht gut ging, so hatte ich den Donnerstag dann auch frei und ich habe mich dann mit Sabrina zum bummeln in der Stadt getroffen :-). Nachmittags sind wir dann mit Elisa ...
Nobody beats the Drum!
Haha, another music update!
Check out weirdly good electro by Nobody beats the Drum on Spotify.
I stumbled across them on the schedule of the Happy Student weeks the
Universities in Den Haag are organising for the new students to The
Hague. Head liners to the Party at the Grote Markt last Saturday.
Unfortunately, I couldn't make it to their Gig, due to ...