May 4, 2010 - Apeldoorn to Eindhoven, Nederland

Tuesday 4th May 2010 Weather:-Cold-8 degrees Apeldoorn to Eindhoven by train (1:23h-154k). 20:55 catch Ryanair flight 4038--Arrive Bergamo Italy 22:25 A final vacuum and dust through our Home-swappers home left us with nothing to do so we thought 'may as well head of to Eindhoven by train than sit out the time here in Apeldoorn'. We got to the Apeldoorn train station at about 12 noon and checked that the print out for our train schedule was still in order; we had bought our tickets 2 days earlier and asked the station attendant to print out...

Nov 15, 2009 - Missed Flight

15-11-2009 Op dinsdag 10 november stond de terugvlucht gepland. Koen en ik hadden allebei nog één tentamen open staan en aangezien we van plan zijn in februari af te studeren hadden we al besloten een keer op en neer te vliegen. Financieel is het ook voordelig, want anders had ik het tentamen in juni moeten maken en een retourtje Cairo is goedkoper dan een half jaar collegegeld! Van te voren hadden we geregeld dat onze tentamens op dezelfde dag gegeven werden, zodat we samen konden reizen. Ook was de terugvlucht een mooie gelegenheid om de...

Oct 18, 2007 - Eindhoven, Netherlands

Great city - 5th largest in Holland. Excellent shopping centre and great cafes. Apparently they have the largest olympic pool in Holland and Olympic great Hoogenband swims there every day. Saw the most random thing..... Just strolling down the street... like it was completely normal and done on a regular basis... was... *wait for it*.... A CHICKEN!... yes you read right. A chicken (technically a rooster, but chicken makes for a better story). How bizarre is that? I wish I had taken a photo. Would of taken a video if he had crossed the road.