Eindhoven, a proper rest in the sun!

My first evening in Eindhoven was a very chilled out one. After arriving for a late lunch, which ended up being a whole box of eggs, scrambled, on toast and as Sarah didn't need to be in school in the afternoon, we did some shopping for tea and general bits - I replaced my emergency tin of beans I had eaten the previous night. Tea turned out to be home made burgers with all the trimmings, which even nearly ended up being barbecued due to the sun coming out for the first time since I arrived in London! After fantastic food and an evening doing very little, Sarah and I (who didn't have any morning lessons) ended up sleeping until midday!

I tagged along with Sarah to go to her lesson in the afternoon and after an hour or so in that, we both walked round the graduate's design show, which turned out to be really interesting and impressive (apart from the really arty shit that doesn't make any sense whatsoever...) Late afternoon consisted of buying yet more food for sausages and onions poached in red wine, which I cooked for Sarah and her two house mates, Paola and Nils, as a thank you for letting me turn up randomly on their doorstep and stay with them and then getting ready for an underground, Dutch, rave, graduate party thing that I was made to go to by Sarah and co.

Pre-drinks started with Arielle and Mila, friends from school, turning up and a similar version to the '4 King's' drinking game being played by all. This turned out to be hilarious as a couple of the group, in particular my cousin, were extremely bad at this game so ended up a little worse for wear than the rest of us. Fortunately for her, she was chauffeured to and from the party on the back of her own bike!

The next day was a relatively slow day, with admin type stuff completed, the workshops in school explored and a large amount of Dutch deep-fried food and chips eaten for tea. After another very lazy morning, more packing, route planning and bike maintenance was done for departure the next day.

After waking earlier than any previous day in Eindhoven, I disappeared off into the city in search of a better map of Germany, as the previous day's route planning had ended up in me deciding I would go into Luxembourg and then into Germany, following the border and Rhein all the way to Basel and Switzerland. After finally getting everything packed, I set off towards Maastricht where I set up camp in a campsite just outside the city, after a nice 40 miles on the last bit of properly flat roads.