a quick side-trip to good old Bangalore, to meet some old friends
My Travel
On this page you will find a brief photographic overview of a selection of recent short and long trips I made for business and for pleasure. Sometimes it feels that I live on planes and in hotels rather than in a nice quiet suburb of Nijmegen, and below list does not even include all trips. Click on the thumbnail to view the larger image. List sorted in descending chronological order.
*PHO: Plane - Hotel - Office. Means no or almost no time for sightseeing.
May 2008 - Bangalore, India, visiting friends (2 days)
a
quick side-trip to good old Bangalore, to meet some old friends
May 2008 - Mumbai, India, charity project (4 days)
a
project for Mumbai Mobile Creches, through Atma Mumbai
April 2008 - Kitty Hawk NC, USA, sightseeing during business trip (5 days)
a quick tour to New York, Kitty Hawk (Wright Brothers!),
Roanoke Island, Greensboro and Philadelphia
January 2008 - Zell am See, Austria, ski trip with colleagues (3 days)
the annual HPFS-TVS skitrip!
December 2007 - Berwang, Austria, family ski trip (8 days)
ski holiday with the family in a nice little child-friendly
resort in Berwang
December 2007 - Tubingen and Stuttgart, Germany, family trip (3 days)
short family citytrip to Tubingen and the Mercedes-Benz
museum in Stuttgart
November 2007 - Atlanta, Georgia, USA, day trip (1 day)
on my way home I had a full day at Coca Cola, CNN Center and Downtown Atlanta
November 2007 - Hawaii, USA, weekend trip (3 days)
a
great weekend at the Big Island and Oahu. Volcanoes (by helicopter), Kailua,
Waikiki, Pearl Harbor
October 2007 - California, USA, business trip (5 days)
meetings at the global HQ. PHO*
October 2007 - Mumbai, India, family vacation (9 days)
our family project to help a slum school in Mumbai
August 2007 - Athens and Peloponnese, Greece, family vacation (22 days)
our summer holiday, driving all the way to sunny Greece. See the Olympic racetrack at Olympia!
July 2007 - Stockholm, Sweden, business trip (3 days)
annual meeting with the EMEA colleagues. Raceboat ride and visit to Vasa Museet
June 2007 - San Francisco, California, USA, business trip (5 days)
squeezed in trip down scenic route 1 from Halfmoon Bay to Santa Cruz. PHO*
June 2007 - Silverstone, England, short trip (3 days)
attending an MG Event at Silverstone Circuit
, seeing the new NAC TF 500LE and Windsor Castle
May 2007 - Flevoland and Zaanse Schans, Netherlands, family trip (1 day)
a day out with friends to do a big tour of The Netherlands
April 2007 - Neandertal, Germany, family trip (1 day)
a day out to nearby Neandertal museum and park
March 2007 - Reading, England, business trip (3 days)
quick visit to the colleagues in the UK. Also met my brother for dinner and return trip. PHO*
February 2007 - Axams, Tirol, Austria, ski trip
(3 days)
with the colleagues from work
January 2007 - San Francisco, California, USA (4
days)
business trip to Redwood City, and a quick trip to the
newly refurbished HP Garage near Stanford. PHO*
January 2007 - Paris, France (5 days)
family holiday to the city of light, including the Eiffel Tower and Grande
Galerie d'Evolution
December 2006 - Seattle, Washington, USA
(1 day)
daytrip to the Boeing plant in Everett and a quick visit to
the Space Needle and the first Starbucks
December 2006 - San Francisco and Napa county, California, USA
(14 days)
business trip to Redwood City, and Sunday outing to
Pier 39, Alcatraz and the wine country
November 2006 - Kinderdijk and The Hague,
Netherlands (1 day)
family daytrip to the famous windmill park, the city of The
Hague and the North Sea shore
October 2006 - San Francisco, California, USA (4 days)
business trip to Redwood City - PHO*
August 2006 - Rome, Venice, Umbria and Tuscany, Italy (21
days)
family vacation to our favorite European country
July 2006 - Paris, France (1 day)
short 1-day business trip to Paris on a superhot summer
day, with 2 hours for sightseeing
July 2006 - Sydney and Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia (6 days)
businesstrip via Dubai to Sydney (in first class!), with one rainy day for
sightseeing in the Blue Mountains
May 2006 - Cairo, Giza, Memphis and Saqqara, Egypt (7 days)
family vacation to the highlights of the Nile Valley around
Cairo
April 2006: Chicago, Illinois, USA (6 days)
business trip to the windy city, with a baseball game and
the view from Sears tower. PHO*
February 2006 - Nesselwang, Germany, skitrip (3 days)
ski trip with the colleagues from work, record snow in
Bavaria!
February 2006 - Edam and Marken, Netherlands (3 days)
wedding anniversary celebration weekend just north of
Amsterdam, rare pics with loads of snow
February 2006 - Bangalore, India (5 days)
businesstrip to the heart of India, without even a second
for sightseeing. First class again! PHO*
January 2006 - New Providence, New Jersey, USA (3 days)
businesstrip to New Jersey, with 30 minutes of sightseeing
in Coney Island. PHO*
January 2006 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA (5 days)
business trip to Andover, just north of Boston. No
sightseeing at all. First time in first class! PHO*
December 2005 - Zell am See, Salzburg, Austria (7 days)
family ski trip during the Christmas holiday, great fun
with
the kids!
November 2005 - Sydney, NSW, Australia (6 days)
business trip to Australia via Dubai. 4-hour sightseeing
trip to Bondi beach, PHO*
September 2005 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
(1 day)
family day trip to the VOC ship 'Amsterdam', plus a
short walk through the city
September 2005 - Houston and San Antonio, Texas, USA
(14 days)
long business trip to Houston, with day trips to San
Antonio (the Alamo) and Galveston
August 2005 - Interlaken, Switzerland (6 days)
family holiday, starting with a week in the Jungfrau Region
May 2005 - Chicago, Illinois, USA (5 days)
business trip to Chicago, quick visit to the Hancock Tower,
a Cubs game and a White Sox game
May 2005 - Bangalore, India (7 days)
business trip to India, attended a wedding of a colleague
and visited the enormous Krishna temple
April 2005 - Miami, Florida, USA (5 days)
business trip to Miami, dinner at Coconut Grove and 4 hours
of sightseeing in the Everglades
March 2005 - Zeeland, Netherlands and Bruges, Belgium (6 days)
family spring break in the southwest of Netherlands,
with a day trip to Bruges
February 2005 - Cape Province, South Africa (7 days)
wedding anniversary vacation to South Africa: Cape
Province, Robben Island, Cape of Good Hope
January 2005 - Bangalore and Mysore, India (12 days)
business trip to Bangalore, combined with a sightseeing
weekend in Mysore
November 2004 - Tokyo, Japan (4 days)
part of the tour through Asia, with one day to do some
sightseeing (Lost in Translation - the bar!)
November 2004 - Singapore (3 days)
part of a tour through Asia, with one weekend day to do
some sightseeing
October 2004 - New Providence and Atlantic City, New jersey,
USA (5 days)
business trip to the US East Coast, including a Sunday
afternoon on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, PHO*
October 2004 - Epen, Maastricht and Cologne, Netherlands and
Germany (3 days)
long weekend trip to the South of our country, for walking
and a side-trip to Cologne
September 2004 - Mexico City and Teotihuacan, Mexico (7 days)
business trip to Mexico city, combined with an impressive
visit to the pyramids at Teotihuacan
September 2004 - Niagara Falls and Toronto, Canada (2 days)
weekend trip from New Jersey to Niagara Falls, the ice wine
region and the city of Toronto
August 2004 - Bridgewater, New Jersey, USA (4 days)
business trip to NJ, including a night at my favorite
waterfront restaurant in Weehawken, NJ, PHO*
August 2004 - Achterhoek and Friesland, Netherlands (14 days)
family summer vacation in our own little country
July 2004 - Dublin, Ireland (2 days)
one of many business trips to Dublin, with sightseeing
usually limited to a few pubs, PHO*
June 2004 - New York City, New York, USA
(6 days)
business meeting in NJ, with a rainy Sunday afternoon
walking and sailing around NY City
May 2004 - Monaco and Cannes, France (3
days)
business meeting in Monaco, with evening trips to Nice,
Monte Carlo and Cannes
March 2004 - Dublin, Ireland (5 days)
business trip to Dublin, one evening in Johnny Fox's pub,
with dance show
March 2004 - Sydney, NSW, Australia (6
days)
business trip via Vienna and Kuala Lumpur to Sydney, with a
nice half day trip to Manly Beach
February 2004 - New Providence, New
Jersey, USA (5 days)
business trip to NJ, where my car broke down on my way to
the airport, PHO*
November 2003 - New York City, New York,
USA (14 days)
business meeting in NJ, with a sunny Sunday supporting a
friend at the NY Marathon
November 2003 - Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, USA (1 day)
daytrip to Philly, visiting Liberty Bell, Independence
Hall, a submarine and Washington Crossing HP
July 2003 - Tuscany, Italy (21 days)
family vacation to Tuscany (Pisa, Firenze, Siena,
Montepulciano, Montalcino)
February 2003 - Boston, Massachusetts,
USA (5 days)
business trip to Marlboro, Andover and Boston, followed by
a flight to Dublin for another meeting, PHO*
