White white white!
February 8th, 2007 A.D.E.
7.25am: Alarm!!!
"Ruby Ruby Ruby..." by Kaiser Chiefs.
I wake up with the FM radio on to my disgust... What a way to start the day!
First thing, have a look out the window. No, it's still dark. 'Why doesn't the sun come out in this cursed place?'. Then, I console myself, 'Mate, this is still winter and you're in the north-western part of Europe'.
Nevertheless, I finish my daily routine and manage to leave the flat at 8.38am (pretty early, for a change!). Oh no... 'Phileas' just passes by, and the time is still 8.43am! Understandably, I get absolutely annoyed, as usual, 'The driver doesn't have time sense. The bus was supposed to come to Piazza at 8.44am'. Anyway, I have to wait for another flaming fifteen minutes. With ample time in hand, I take a stroll to the Station NS. I look up, watch the 'temperatuur display' on the Rabobank. Blimey! Can't believe my eyes... it is freezing -2 degrees celsius. Well, that is a surprise. (little did I know that another surprise was on the cards!)
There is another Phileas, slightly 'meowing' (believe it or not, it makes such a feline noise). I say 'Hallo' (see, I have learnt the Dutch way of expressing interjections!) to the bushy-moustached driver and he acknowledges with a broad smile; just another 'nice and polite Dutch bloke'. 8.57am and the Phileas starts meowing and moving. Yet another uneventful journey to bear with, and the bus slows down on the 'Luchthavenweg' (Lucht+haven+weg = air+port+way) and finally stops alongside the board bearing the name "Eindhoven Airport". Alas, I am not going to travel any further, at least not for the moment.
No sooner did I get down from the bus than something out of the ordinary happened. Heavens! I mean, the heavens have opened! My wait for over two months is over. No 'Snow White and the seven dwarfs', but it is for real... As the Met office later announced, 5 centimetres of Sneeuw, as it is known in Dutch! Prachtig!
7.25am: Alarm!!!
"Ruby Ruby Ruby..." by Kaiser Chiefs.
I wake up with the FM radio on to my disgust... What a way to start the day!
First thing, have a look out the window. No, it's still dark. 'Why doesn't the sun come out in this cursed place?'. Then, I console myself, 'Mate, this is still winter and you're in the north-western part of Europe'.
Nevertheless, I finish my daily routine and manage to leave the flat at 8.38am (pretty early, for a change!). Oh no... 'Phileas' just passes by, and the time is still 8.43am! Understandably, I get absolutely annoyed, as usual, 'The driver doesn't have time sense. The bus was supposed to come to Piazza at 8.44am'. Anyway, I have to wait for another flaming fifteen minutes. With ample time in hand, I take a stroll to the Station NS. I look up, watch the 'temperatuur display' on the Rabobank. Blimey! Can't believe my eyes... it is freezing -2 degrees celsius. Well, that is a surprise. (little did I know that another surprise was on the cards!)
There is another Phileas, slightly 'meowing' (believe it or not, it makes such a feline noise). I say 'Hallo' (see, I have learnt the Dutch way of expressing interjections!) to the bushy-moustached driver and he acknowledges with a broad smile; just another 'nice and polite Dutch bloke'. 8.57am and the Phileas starts meowing and moving. Yet another uneventful journey to bear with, and the bus slows down on the 'Luchthavenweg' (Lucht+haven+weg = air+port+way) and finally stops alongside the board bearing the name "Eindhoven Airport". Alas, I am not going to travel any further, at least not for the moment.
No sooner did I get down from the bus than something out of the ordinary happened. Heavens! I mean, the heavens have opened! My wait for over two months is over. No 'Snow White and the seven dwarfs', but it is for real... As the Met office later announced, 5 centimetres of Sneeuw, as it is known in Dutch! Prachtig!
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