Uden Travel Blogs

*** UPDATE *** Finally some good news. Some photos in the mail and Nel talked to them all a few more times after all the bad stuff happened and its all a little bit better now. Im not sure what will happen next but I will just have to wait and see

1985 I was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka and adopted by a family from the Netherlands when I was 2 weeks old. My parents Harrie and Ine travelled to Sri Lanka to meet my mother and to take me back home to NL. Since then I have lived here in the south of the Netherlands. I also have a brother who is a…

So after I present to you… The Netherlands I give you part 2.. I present to you.. My town Uden.. My town is not very interesting for tourists I think, we don’t have really big sights or attractions, but it’s an average Dutch town so that does make it interesting for others at the same time..…

Abraham & Sarah tradition when somebody turns 50. When somebody turns 50 there is a saying that they have seen Abraham or Sarah. If it’s a man who turns 50 they say he has seen Abraham and when it’s a woman they say she has seen Sarah. To celebrate the 50th birthday of a person we decorate …

I'm normally not the first one to admit these things, but I think I might actually have been stretching myself a bit too much lately. Not only had a situation of undermanning meant some additional work, but the sheer number of projects I was working on at my day job was also slightly overwhelming. …

Day 20: Deurne - Uden 123.7 kms   After a night with a lot of wind we started our final part of the route. Our bodies were tired from the many kms we had cycled and our legs had planned a protest. Luckily they didn’t. In the afternoon we entered the Netherlands and some things became d…