Eventful weeks...

The past three weeks have been quite exciting...mostly for the good things happening, such as surfing and holiday-ing, but also a cremation. Anyway, just a short overview of my adventures. The past three weekends I surfed in Newquay (another surfgirl weekend, very, very, very cool), France (OK on Monday and Friday, but that's nearly weekend) and today in Scheveningen. The surfgirl weekend was splendid again, this time I didn't rent a car but even more decadently, flew from Amsterdam to Bristol and then from Bristol to Plymouth where Jilly picked me up and we went to the Newquay together (past the Jamaica Inn :)) In France I was with my family (- Frank who went to Belgium to windsurf with his friends). Veules-les-Roses is a gorgeous little village (check out some impressions on my flickr page). Unfortunately it was flat for most of the week, but we went to Etretat (fantastic cliffs where Hans and I explored a tunnel) and to Dieppe. In what little waves there were I tried to teach Sara the basics of at least paddling, and I pushed her onto a few waves so she could get the feel of getting taken up by a wave. And she loved it, another surfgirl is born :). The colour of the sea was amazing btw.

Today I went surfing in Scheveningen, and it was the best session I've ever had in Holland. Not that I surf here much, but still...It's a shame The Hague was one big mess because of roadworks so it took me ages to get there, but it was well worth it. Nice and clean, warm, and the best thing about surfing in Holland is that there are so many girls, honest, at least as many as boys!

When I got back to Leiden this evening I couldn't get into my house anymore because there was something wrong with the lock, but the corporation sent someone right over to put a new cylinder in the lock and all it well now again and not too long from now I'm going to sleep in my own bed again :)

Crazy!

On October 2 and 3 Leiden celebrates its liberation from the Spanish in god knows what year. This means the town has gone crazy. Yesterday evening I arrived at Leiden train station around 20:00, on an empty stomach, to find that the whole town has turned into a big fair, all the supermarkets closed and crowds of people everywhere. After fighting my way through the people I got to my apartment after 45 minutes and had a sandwich with Steve which we picked up on the way. But there was a nice surprise waiting for me at home: the new Frames CD which I ordered from Ireland because it's not available here yet :D



And it's good :D

Today was no less crazy, on the way to Naturalis there were already crowds of people blocking the way again, but I managed to get there without running over too many :) Same thing on the way back, and still all the supermarkets closed. Other than that it wasn't such a special day, been messing around with my computer at work to get some stuff installed that didn't want to be installed, and then we got kicked out at 17:55 because the office was closing...Oh and I spilt pasta saus on Steve's carpet, so now we're even ;-) (he once dropped a pizza on my floor).

Life is good

I had a lovely quiet weekend. On Saturday I went shopping with my parents and today I went climbing with Mandy, Steve, Veronique, Katie, Alerk and Lindsey. Though the best thing about this weekend was that I booked another surf weekend in Newquay...for next weekend. It's a bit outrageous but surfing is just fantastic and it's the last coaching weekend before the winter. I found a slightly easier and cheaper way to get there (flying from Amsterdam to Bristol and then to Plymouth on Friday late in the afternoon, crashing on someone's floor who's also going to Newquay this weekend, and flying back from Plymouth to Bristol to Amsterdam on Monday morning 6.30am).

Perhaps I should just leave my bag packed for these kind of things :)