Eindhoven, a city full of surprises...

After the container had gone we crashed down on a borrowed air mattress and we just laid there knock-out for the better part of the day. Tuesday we have begun with filling the holes in the wall, cleaning up the house, and preparing the last stuff for the dump and the pawnshop. Today (Wednesday) Cor, the drummer of our church band, came around with his small van to drive our stuff to the pawnshop and the dump. The load for the pawn shop filled up the van completely, and the load for the dump was so large that it didn’t fit inside completely. At the time we arrived at the dump with the van filled up, we learned that the dump of Eindhoven is closed on Wednesday. They must be joking, right? Afraid not. I didn’t bother to check beforehand…

Oh well, there we were, with a van all filled up with garbage. In New Zealand they know how to deal with that, there you can burn your garbage in your own backyard. I always thought of that as stupid and polluting, however right now I would have wanted that that would have been allowed here in Holland as well. Cor started to threaten me that he would return all the garbage to sender, but I was able to bribe him with two bikes and a bag of grass seed. Now he has a van filled with garbage sitting on his driveway, instead of ours.

At night we started with packing our suitcases and preparing all the stuff we want to take with us in the car. That is a lot of stuff, BTW… I wonder if it is all going to fit.