Blogs from Den Bosch, North Brabant, Netherlands, Europe

This morning I took the double decker train to Den Bosch. It cost me 20 euros for a return with my bike on the train as well! I went to meet Matt from NUCA to see how his Eramsus experience is going so far. So we arranged to meet at the golden eagle, which was infact a golden dragon! It was jokes seeing Matt get on a bike after he said he hadn't cycled since he was 10 years old! He did really well and we cycled into the town centre towards the busy market. Den Bosch is a beautiful town full of old rickety streets and more typical Dutch buildings. We bought stroopwafel en eierkoek! After seeing his accomodation, Matt showed me his campus where he studies. It looks like a warehouse but then there's ... 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

Masters of Hardcore has been labelled by some as the mainstream event of hardcore. To some, it's like Parklife to the electro scene, the Utopia to Australia's rave scene, Taste of Chaos to the emo scene...you get my drift :). It is the biggest event in the world that plays purely hardcore - selling 20,000 tickets each time so it's understandable people feel this way. Just like all big events, it's made a name for itself for a reason - Masters of Hardcore presents the worlds biggest hardcore artists (mostly Dutch & Italian) and spreads them out over 5 arenas, which all have a different theme, well thought out lighting production, incredible sound quality and stage set ups. The controversy with an event such as this is that people complain it's always the same each time ... read more