Hallo alleemaal! This is my first entry after arriving in Europe, and a lot has happened so far. I would probably be able to remember more, but I have been without internet until now. It's amazing how lost we are without internet, for only three! 3! days. Anways, we left Portland at 12:00 noon, and took a nonstop flight to Amsterdam. It was kind of a dissapointing flight, because I could hardly sleep at all, knowing that it would doom me once we got to Holland, which we arrived in at 7:00 AM! with a whole day to go!!! jet lag [View Full Entry]

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Bonjour et Hallo, As some of you know, I can be a bit of a masochist at times. I guess I should put that in context first. I try to see as much as I possibly can when I’m travelling and I am beginning to run out of time in Belgium so I woke up very early (the day after visiting Vimy Ridge) and joined by room mates Cris and Mirjam for a trip to Maastricht and Tongeren. We slept on the train most of the way to Liege, where we would have to transfer trains. We had a bout 20 [View Full Entry]

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Prologue: In the beginning. There was an idea, voiced by a woman on a particular terrace at the “onze lieve vrouwe plein” Maastricht. Heard by a man whose initial reaction was a mix of opposing emotions. Fear was replaced by opportunity, opportunity replaced by worry, worry by possibilities. And although no decision was made at that instant, it was the start of a journey to lands at the far reaches of the world, and one step further. For after a week or 2 of careful deliberation the answer was “Yes”. Obviously the man in this story was me, the woman, Ilse [View Full Entry]

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Treca selidba po redu, najtraumaticnija do sad. Iz jednog voza u drugi, iz jednog vagona u onaj koji nastavlja za Mastriht. Jer, ne postoji direktna linija. Niti neko ko ce o tome da te obavesti. Dezorganizacija koja funkcionise! Kako, pojma nemamo. Jer, nista se ne podrazumeva. Vozovi krenu u jedan grad, zavrse u drugom, radnje danas rade do 6, sutra do 8, prekosutra uopste ne rade, nista se ne podrazumeva. Naravoucenije - za sve pitaj triput. Po treci put ponovo trazi taxi da preveze cergu od milion kofera, snalazi se na karti, potrefi ulicu, prenesi prnje, poljubi vrata. Umalo. Ko na [View Full Entry]

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Nederland 27 April 2008, voorbereidingen reis [View Full Entry]

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The Famous Carnival celebration in the streets of Maastricht [View Full Entry]

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Follow me to colorful faces, leprechauns and wolfs, pirates and batman, popes giving out condoms and along the yellow brick road that is the carnival of Maastricht! Oh and after you had a look at the photos on this website and realized your life would be more complete if only you saw a little bit more - follow this link to see more photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/dkruchkoff/MaastrichtCarnivalNetherlands210209To220209?authkey=yxFP-Pg1RIE&feat=directlink. Carnival Maastricht was crazy. And good. Both crazy and good. The night of Friday 20, February 2009 I took a train after work to Ni [View Full Entry]

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Pinkpop Festival is an annual rock festival held in the city of Landgraaf, 134 miles from Amsterdam, near the city of Heerlen and situated in the most South bound province of Limburg, Netherlands. It is held annually on the Whitsun weekend (Pinksteren in Dutch, hence the name). Now in its 38th year the festival has a capacity of 60,000 and three days of music on three stages. The three headline acts have been confirmed for 2008 Metallica, Foo Fighters and Rage Against the Machine. Nearly 40 acts have been announced and include Incubus, Flogging Molly, Alter Bridge, Kaiser Chiefs, Editors [View Full Entry]

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This will be my last blog: I arrived in Holland a couple of days ago. On my last Saturday in New Zealand I had a really cool goodbye party (see pictures). Then I started packing, which was quite hard, because I had way too much stuff! So I gave my flatmates about half my wardrobe (okay I’m lying now, it was more like a quarter) and just got my suitcase to close… The night before I left, my flatmates gave me a beautiful picture frame with some pictures of all of us, which they had secretly printed. They are so sweet, [View Full Entry]

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Beste mensen, Voor alle oude blogbekenden: Jullie zullen wel denken: Maastricht, Maastricht, ik dacht dat deze blog zich in Zuid-Amerika afspeelde... Dat is ook het geval, maar ik zal Sander morgen vanuit Nederland gaan vergezellen. Voor alle nieuw aangemelden: je hebt het oneindige geluk vanuit mijn hotmailaccount te zijn gecopypasted! Je wordt voortaan van nieuwe spam voorzien, als het je niet bevalt zul je je even af moeten melden.. Maar goed, terwijl dat stelletje nozems in Zuid-Amerika rondhing, moest er in Nederland natuurlijk gewoon gewerkt worden. Na een half jaar pipetteren, blo [View Full Entry]

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