1/2/2005 - 2/26/2005 : A new year, an old location
Just before heading home for the holidays, I was asked to come back out in early 2005. The intention was for this to be a three week trip. This turned out to be a little longer...
Was visited during this trip by my brother Michael who came out and together we went on a trip to Bremen to visit our sister's friend who was there for work. We turned this into a visit to Berlin, from which he went on his own for a week by train before we met up again for a weekend in Barcelona.
Had quite a few weekend side trips alone and with colleagues, locations such as Kasteel de Haar, Rochefort, Luxemburg City, Maastricht, Valkenburg, Amsterdam, Brugge, and again the Rhine Valley. Carnival fell during this period as well so for the second year in a row I got to experience Carnival in Eindhoven, and also Maastricht Carnival for the first time.










