Double Dutch

No, I’ve no idea where that saying comes from, but having spent the last two weeks in Eindhoven, in the Noord-Brabant region of the Netherlands, it seemed like a logical, in unoriginal title for this posting.

The company sent me out to Eindhoven for two weeks, in order to write some documentation and training materials around some new reporting functionality that we had created for our client out there. The work the client does is fascinating and of the reports that I was working on, one was a bog standard SSRS report and one was a very funky way of displaying Project Server information in Visio.

Since it was easier for me to spend the weekend out there, D came out on Friday night and spent the weekend with me. We spent a very wet Saturday in  Valkenburg and Maastricht and slightly drier Sunday in Eindhoven. Valkenburg is the site of the only castle in the Netherlands built on a hill, the first railway station in the Netherlands (which begs the question of where the railway went and where the second station was), and the site of the Red Bull Crashed Ice races on Feb 2nd – 4th this year.

Maastricht was even wetter than Valkenburg, so we had a quick tour to the Helpoort and then it was back on the train to Eindhoven. Sunday was a bit drier so we took a gentle stroll around town, via the investiture of a new priest at the church of St Jinus, a couple of nice parks, lovely lunch at  the News Cafe and back via the river and the sites of the old mills.

All the photos are here on my Flickr site and the routes we walked are on my Google Maps page.