Entries from October 2008

October 23, 2008

Lichtjesroute

Eindhoven seems to host a lot of festivals/events at this time of year. Not only that, but they are all “unique” for the country. As I mentioned in my Deventer post, I suppose everywhere has their trademark or something that they like to show off, so Eindhoven, being the home of Philips, likes to do [...]

October 12, 2008

Musical paradise

Recently I had the pleasure of seeing ARIA winners Gotye and Clare Bowditch play at Paradiso in Amsterdam. Again, like the recent visit of the Socceroos, it’s great to see/hear something familiar, even if I only discovered both of these artists after I moved here. And for €8 (+ €2.80 bf + €3 Paradiso membership), [...]

October 5, 2008

Mobility events

One thing I must do more often is read the paper. There are a lot of interesting things going on, but I seem to find out about them afterwards. As a result, I now have a trial subscription to nrc.next, and am quite enjoying being able to read the paper over breakfast, not to mention [...]