Spent my Sunday with my god son and my baby sister, enjoying the sunny afternoon in my politic correct city Eindhoven, kind of groggy as i haven't been back for long and feel abit arkward, i just can't get the home feeling yet, Eindhoven not that bad, been chosen as the smartest city in the world beaten Silicon Valley, twice in a row, and also wellknown for the design city, the Design week Eindhoven really popular in Europe, you can see the new architectures mixed with the old building stand together, really facsinating, however, i still missing the home feeling...., maybe a little stroll around the city would change my mind...
If you take out the cars and the tall building at the backside, you will see the stations design as an old Philips AM radio, Frits Philips, built his first Philips Empire in Eindhoven, hence Eindhoven wellknown as Philips town. Before they ruined the view with those tall building, i used to come here in the afternoon and sat down on the terrace made lots of schetcs from this station...
Since there are plenty of big multi millions international companies and very welknown technology University, Eindhoven becoming an Expat heaven with multi culturals new residents and too politic correct place to live, you can't be a Dutchie anymore, you have to think 3 times before you said something, else you might offended some people, Dutchies are wellknown to be the most tolerance folks in the world, almost everybody speak more than 3 languages, so its getting harder and harder for foreigner to learn our language...the Irony :(... eveybody speaks English here, so sometimes i just played around and speak English in the shop:):)
Well, at least they tried to bike like the local and there is a saying in the Netherlands, unless your bike stolen once, you are yet become a resident, verybody at least experienced their bike stolen once during they stayed in NL, hence you will see people invested in the bike lock, and if you have an expensive bike you have to insure it ( lowland is the heaven of Insurance, we insured everything), i got 3 kinds of bike, 1 and old one, i use this one for going out , so if someone steal it, i just leave it like that, 1 an expensieve bike i use to bike when we have a good weather ( rarely) and one a race bike, i use this one when i think i need some exercise.....some people also have ebike, mountain bike and mopped.. ( we just love our bike ) we bike everywhere, do our grocery, running errands, go to work, on the rainy day, snowing, and when the road covered with Ice, Dutchies will go on bike..and Yes, we have car too.... we even built a free of charge underground parking space for the bikes :)
We love Coffee, we drink coffee the whole day, the Dutchies is the 5th in the world for largest consuming coffee and we stick with our Douwe Egberts, as cheap as Dutchies, we are not going to Starbuck for our coffee, we brew it ourself .... sometimes when i am in the foreign country , i automatically invited people for a coffee and they gave a funny look ...well, i love my coffee...and my beer and my wine :)
We Dutch people are really cheap and would love to have fee of charge, and we are lucky we got plenty of company trying to sell their product by giving free sample on the street, almost everyday, you will see this kind of sales people offering new product and today, they got me Kinder Bueno Ice cream... a good treat on this Indian summer in Autumn.
We walked through my design city and stumble upon these beatiful places i remembered from a lifetime ago....
M God son and I decided to called it a day and yelped a place to get out tea, and as half blood he opted for a noodle ( what else ?) ... to close this beautiful sunday afternoon, i asked him his thought and he said .....
Yet another first class Aunty Duty :):):) i was so happy he enjoyed his day.. i am going to sleep now, as i will need to catch up my yet another unchristian flight to Berlin from Amsterdam..
Eindhoven, Sept 15th.
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