1) Cheap Book Festival: In Beursgebouw, the big building between Piazza and the train station, there is a market with a large collection of books at discount prices. As we've heard from friends, there are also books in english so you might be interested to try. For more details check here (the site is in Dutch but you can try a google translation) .
On a future post we'll give some more info as to where you can find on a regular basis cheap english books here in Eindhoven.
2) Eindhoven is proud to be the city of Philips, a huge company which started out as a light bulb industry. Hence, light bulb is a distinctive part of the local history. In honour of this, every year there's the GLOW festival around the city. This is the time when a bunch of artists disguise playfully the streets and buildings using cutting-edge light technology. So this week, when walking in the city centre, don't be surprised if you encounter strange lights all around. You've been warned :)
More info about the concept can be found here
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For the data featured in this post, we're grateful to Ana who has sent us a very informative mail. Thanks a lot! We are more than happy to host here your suggestions on interesting local happenings.
Fijn weekend!
