Il mio Overseas a Sydney, Australia (Gen-Lug 2007)... e il mio periodo di Tesi all'Estero a Rotterdam/Utrecht, Olanda (Ott 2007-Mar 2008)!

UTS in NL/2 – Going around

On the next day the people moved to Delft to go on with the invasion in the city where the Dutchman moved a short time before the unexpected “visit”.
They split into two groups, one travelling by train and one by car (the legendary German car coming from Potsdam). Delft was conquered.

However, after having visited the city centre of this lovely town, it was already time for a part of the German troops to pull out. In this vintage picture you can appreciate the same people you have already seen in Rotterdam, except one. He was taking the picture from the train that would have brought him back to the German border.
The day went on with the survivors moving up north to Amsterdam, the Dutch capital city (even if the Royals live in The Hague). But the invaders were too tired and after a great evening meal they had to rest for a while on a bench.
However, after a while they were ready to patrol the popular city centre. Lights of any colour at any corner. They could find a lot of strange stuff. The idea was to confiscate everything, but it would have been an unfair battle in this part of The Netherlands.
Thanks to a night train everybody could return safely home at around 3. The following morning another Italian had to leave, but the remaining people managed to meet again on Monday night. The invasion was close to the end. The Germans and Italians lost again and had to go back to their countries, the mysterious French remained a few more days to check that everything was ok, the Italian spy was sent off the county and had to leave it within two weeks. The Dutchman was safe and could go back to the tiny Delft with his girlfriend. History repeated. And maybe will repeat again. We’ll see! :-)
As said at the beginning of the first post, the invaders were French, German and Italian people. To be more precise, here it is the composition of the troops:
French troops: Guillaume
German troops: Nico, Timm, Tobi
Italian troops: Silvia, Simo
Their names will always remain in the piece of history describing the UTS revival in The Netherlands. After one year, good friends were still there together!

Postato da: DexterH46 a 16:09 | link | commenti
holiday, amsterdam, uts , delft, netherlands

17th November – An Italian supporter in Delft.

The same night I went to Delft to see the football match between Italy and Scotland, played in the United Kingdom. I met my Italian friend Luca who studies there, and with all his Italian friends we went to a pub to see the match. Netherlands was playing later in the night so we had the opportunity to conquer our room in the pub and watch the match (there was an horrible music instead of the commentary, but at least we had the images). Italy won 1-2 and assured the qualification for the next European Championship which will take place in Switzerland and Austria next summer.
After the match we went into the flat of Federica, one of the two girls who were there. We had a tasty dinner together and then started playing a drinking game. It was funny, but just for a while. After 5 minutes the girls were always making errors so they were the only ones always drinking, we had to make mistakes on purpose to drink some alcohol! :-)

After we finished both the food and the drinks I went with Luca and two friends of him (one Spanish, one Dutch) to Rotterdam to end the day clubbing somewhere in the centre.
I was quite tired but at least I was going out after two hard working weeks. And it had been nice until Luca has been kicked out because wearing a hat. This forced all of us to go out (we couldn’t leave our mate alone!), walk around looking for another place before heading back our homes at 4 am!

Postato da: DexterH46 a 20:04 | link | commenti (2)
sport, holiday, party, delft, netherlands