More Holiday!

Just returned from 2 weeks of holidays, half of which was a roadtrip with McR, Nicktor, Karen and a Dutch girl called Ingrid, only Karen had met before. The other half was a meetup with the people mentioned in the previous sentence and lots of Australian people I had met during my days in Perth. Fortunately Ingrid turned out to be a lot of fun, so the first half was a big succes. My Australian friends were still fun, so that was quite successful too.

Obviously all the pics are up at http://www.flickr.com/photos/selmer

So what did we do?
day 1: Rotterdam->Den Bosch->Vlotho (Germany)
Picked up Ingrid in Den Bosch, got to meet her mum (who was apparently a bit anxious when her 20 year old daughter shouted out:"Mum, I'm going on a 2 week holiday with 3 random 30 year old guys!") Then drove on Germany-wards. Nicktor almost managed to badly dent my door at the camp-site but fortunately I was paying attention. Found out pretty early in the trip that apparently I did bring my mp3-player but that I forgot to bring the cable to connect it to my stereo. Argh!

First night consisted of card-games, beer, wine and lots of fun.

day 2: Vlotho->Berlin
Woke up to McR and Ingrid going swimming at subzero temperatures. Eventually packed and drove Berlin-wards. Stayed at Ulli's place. Discovered gnome-juice (liquor with a picture of a gnome on it)

Went clubbing in a pretty cheesy club. They did play Ice Ice baby though and there were naked women dancing. May have had a bit too much to drink that night. Then we probably all did.

day 3: Berlin
Picked up Karen at the train-station. Walked through Berlin, had Indian food. Eventually ended up playing cardgames at night.

day 4: More Berlin.
Saw a museum, spent time in a RC-airplane shop, had a really good dinner in an African restaurant. Tried clubbing but somehow failed. Played cardgames instead.

day 5: Czech republic-wards.
Karen kept trying to convince us that driving through Poland was the smart choice. In the end Nicktor put his foot down claiming his car wouldn't be able to make it through the mountains. The hills in the Czech republic already showed us that he might have been right there.

Camped near Terezin and had a really good hunting session in a supermarket.

day 6: Towards lake Balaton.
Nice camp-site at the lake. Good restaurant. Probably a bit touristy. Lots of alcohol and cardgames.

day 7: Lake Balaton
Lazed at the lake, swam a bit, read a bit, walked around a bit. My life is hard.
See yesterday for the night entertainment.

day 8: Lake Balaton->Budapest.
After lazing for most of the day at the lake, McR and Nicktor told us they were bored and wanted to leave. We let them. Somehow managed to find the Budapest apparetment without sat-nav and/or a proper map. Yay Karen! Arriving there we found out we only knew the street name, not the house-number. Looked up phone-number of house-guy on the internet, he was kind enough to drop us another set of keys. Let ourselves in, mooned the camera, drank all the beers in the fridge and then had a big reunion when everybody walked in and shouted:"Weren't you arriving tomorrow?"

Went out for food with the 5 of us, had cocktails (hic!) and came back to a sleeping house. Played cardgames.

day 9: Budapest.
Looked around, saw red bull air-race preparations. This means planes but no people (yay!) and drank beer. (Yay! again) All the girls went to the baths and Ingrid managed to lose her contacts. Till Tuesday (the day Ingrid leaves) McR is nice enough to borrow her his glasses. Seeing as he's only got his prescription sunglasses and his normal glasses this renders him blind at night.

day 10: More Budapest. Walked around with Christy, Sar and Jess. Had a good laugh while looking at the twins taking identical pictures of all the sights.

day 11: Even more Budapest. A national holiday. Spent most of it sitting in a park playing cardgames with Kaz, Ingrid and Mike. Got shouted at by McR when we more or less left him standing in the rain getting wet.

day 12: The day Ingrid took off. Walked around castle hill with Mike and all the girls. Decided to do a self-guide wine tour, where we bumped into McR, who had already been wine-touring for an hour. Tried tasting all the wines and after that things got a bit hazy. Woke up at 10:30pm lying on the couch thinking:"Hmmm... let's get McDonald's" Did just that. Apparently there was chunderage at the wine-tour.

While I was passed out, Maz managed to sit on McR's glasses. So he's still blind at night.

day 13: Felt somewhat hungover (wonder why) Took a boat-trip on the Danube and looked around a bit in the end-village. Still felt somewhat hungover on the way back.

day 14: The last day in Budapest. Spent shopping and doing Mario Kart. Dinner at night. Sadly no big party because many of us had to drive.

day 15: Driving back. Fortunately Kaz had decided not to go to Greece but to come back with us so that we could drop her off in Gent. Stopped for the night near Nurnberg. Lots of beer, card-games, snuff tobacco and kangaroo impersonating Germans might have been all part of the night. Fun!

day 16: Nurnberg to home. Mainly lots of driving and me slagging off Belgians because Kaz thought they might be cute. Eventually made it back home, where I got to cuddle girlfriend. And look at the Polish girl she brought in.

Holiday!

Was far too busy playing with my DS to update the diary, then a copy of "Bit of a Blur" by Alex James showed up and there was even less an excuse to update the diary. Really love the book, now need to find a way to have good looking hair. (Apparently all you need as a bass player is good hair)

In another couple of days my second big holiday of the year should take place. This time it'll be a roadtrip with Nicktor, McR, Karen and a girl only Karen knows called Ingrid. It should be taking us to at least Berlin, Budapest and Vienna and it should be a blast. Willl try to have lots of fun while traveling.