Social update

We're off tomorrow to Eindhoven for a family outing, staying at Rene's brother Jack's home.  The whole family gets together occasionally, and we go out to dinner and socialise - very nice indeed.  We're travelling by train.  The building (below) is called 'The Blob' housing shops on the ground floor, offices above and a bicycle parking area beneath.  We saw it nearly finished when we last visited two years ago, looking forward to seeing the controversial finished product.

The following weekend we're off to Utrecht where our former neighbours will get together for an afternoon and evening of talking, eating and drinking.  We last saw them NYE 2009.  Exciting too!

Oh, nearly forgot - in June friends of ours from Brisbane are swapping their home for one in Lannion, Brittany (925km from here) which has five bedrooms and a pool.  We've been invited for a while too - more excitement!

We have three (yes, three) sets of new visitors added to our already large list.  How very thrilling!  Just as well our new place will be large - by Dutch standards - and we have just found out our container isn't arriving on the 25th but now is on the 8th of March.  We ought to be able to have it delivered to our new home without having to go into storage first.  It becomes available around 6 or 7 days after landing and clearing customs.

As I look out of the window there is high cloud shrouding the skyscrapers in the city centre but the rest looks bright but hazy. Could be worse...