Meppel and Eindhoven (Best, Heeze, Son & Kempenland)

2010 DUTCH (NL1) Summer Tour

Theme: Water,Greet and Meet, Culture&Cooking

Theme: Sports & Technique

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Meppel

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Theme: Water,Greet and Meet,Culture&Cooking

The first days you will arrive in Meppel, a small town in the North East part of the Netherlands. Arriving Saturday we start with a BBQ party where you can meet your fellow travelers and your hosts during the week. Together with two or three other participants, you will stay with Dutch families at their homes. You will have the possibility to meet and exchange your own culture with each other. All activities will be supported by Rotarian members or their family. We start at sunday with a two-day tour on bike or by boat, together with young people from Meppel , including a one-night outdoorcamp somewhere in the beautiful surroundings of Drenthe.

Forest, moors and lakes and activities like sport and gaming give you a good start in this Summer Tour. Back in Meppel we will run a program made by young Meppel inhabitants. Cooking, Culture and Meeting will be the essentials of this program.

Rounding up the first week we will enable to visit some highlights in North East Netherlands as group or accompagnied by your host. Havelte, Dwingeloo, the old prisons at Frederiksoord, or the memorial camp Westerbork are a few opportunities you need to see! At Saturday we’ll escort you to Eindhoven to start the second part of DUTCH Summertour 2010!

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Eindhoven

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Theme: Sports & Technique

The second week will start with your transfer from Meppel to Eindhoven in the South of The Netherlands. By arrival you will meet your host family. In the evening is a BBQ for al young participants and their hosts foreseen. You will sleep with Dutch families where there will be children with the same age as you. The host children also have the opportunity to join the program and in that way they get to learn about the each other cultures.

Eindhoven is the fifth biggest city in The Netherlands. It has over 210,000 inhabitants and is known for the many professional sportsmen. It’s is located in in the province called Noord Brabant. Eindhoven has a sparkling centre with loads of shops, bars and restaurants. The event calendar shows many culture and art events which make sure that there is always something to do in the city centre.

All activities will be based on the theme. For sports we will go to see the stadium of PSV Eindhoven, canoeing, hockey clinic at the hockey club ‘Oranje Zwart’ and more. The part of Technology will be filled in with visits to Philips, DAF, Evoluon and projects in and around Eindhoven. The whole week is assisted by Rotary members and/or their families. Off course a farewell party will be organized on the last evening of your visit.

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Transport - if you travel:

by air –arrival at and departure from Amsterdam/Schiphol Airport or Eindhoven Airport

by train - arrival and departure at Utrecht CS and by bus - arrival and departure at Utrecht Central station.

Rotarians will meet you where you will arrive and bring you from where you will depart.