Blogs from North Brabant, Netherlands, Europe - page 16

As promised last week I attached some pictures. The smaller ones down on the left side become bigger when you click on "full entry"... read more

After 54 days travelling back home again. Getting used to normal life. This kind of trip has been made by people you meet. I remember still a lot of people I did not write about in the blog : - Like the dutch businessman in Thailand I met , living in Changmai, coming 15 years ago for 3 months to Thailand and stayed. Has a wholesale organisation for restaurants in the North of Thailand. Helped a dutch company out 12 years ago who thought to be able to change lifestyle in Thailand. Thais eat outside and hardly at home. This company wanted to change that. Built chickenfarms and processing factories for easy to prepare food for in house. It failed. But they were selling a lot to the dutch wholesaler, who exported the products to...... the ... read more

So I've only been here for 3 days and it feels like I've been here for a month. We have to bike to class. That sounds great, but school is over 4 miles away. Every morning we get up at 7, get ready, eat breakfast, and bike 4 miles. It's flat here so it wouldn't be much of a problem, but the bicycle seats are unbelievably bad. My butt hurts so bad that I think there should be visible bruising. It even hurts to sit in a chair. I think that I need one of those inflatable donuts. Hmm...maybe my neck pillow from the plane will work? Besides the awful pain of the bicycle seat, we get lost every morning on the way to class. In fairness, we've only biked to class twice, but we've taken ... read more

Ponovo Holandija. Tilburg. Stambena selendra bez zive duse na ulici. Takozvani grad za studente, a zapravo monotona smena kuca i ulica, drvoreda i udesenih dvorista. Nema guzve, nema buke, idealno za zivot u kasnim sedamdesetim. Za neke cak ni tad. Fakultet za novinare, na pola sata brzog hoda od hotela, opremljen bolje nego nase tv stanice, pruza studentima sve na sta obicni smrtnici, poput nas, nisu navikli. Milijardu racunara, radio studio, tv studio, bog te pita koliko kamera, profesorskih saveta, a samo malo teorije. Sve ostalo je, naravno, praksa. Sto bi jedna koleginica rekla, uzmes mikrofon i teraj... Ucis kako da vozis bicikl, kako kaze jedan ovdasnji profesor. Jer, nastavlja isti, biti novinar znaci zonglirati sa sest loptica. Neko ko je prvi put na cetvrtoj godini faksa seo u tv studio da napravi intervju, vise podseca ... read more

Made today my e mails to people who might be interested in the travelblog and got a lot of reactions. In short some facts about the trip. Travelling to Faro in the Algarven brings me as far as possible, by train, from Singapore. Totally it will be about 23.000 km . Crossing 13 countries over land . Only country without train seems to be Cambodia who had a connection Phnom Penh- Battambang recently but is out of order since a few months. The connection was only on saturday so by not using it I solved also some problems of waiting or hurrying. Need 9 visa . 6 already in the passport and 3 to get stamps at the borders in some Asian countries There will be 15 nights spending in trains and using 22 different hotels. ... read more