NYE: overrated or not?

I'm not gonna lie. The preparation for New Years Eve have DEFINITELY been more fun than the actual party for the last couple of years. Somehow there is always something that spoils the fun. This gives me the feeling that having a fun new years party is not possible in the Netherlands. So this year I decided to celebrate it elsewhere and try my luck in Luxembourg. I will definitely avoid the mistakes I made before.

- 3 years ago (or was it 4?): We had a car available and we did have one of us who could actually drive it. That is always a good start. We paid a ridiculous amount of money to get tickets to a big party which was supposedly really great. So, what could go wrong? Well, the trend of techno/ hard style music had just reached our country and everyone seemed to love it big time. Except for us. After several hours of music without lyrics and missing out on the fireworks (we were inside before midnight), we decided we could not handle it anymore and we left. When we came outside we saw that most people where only arriving and we clearly had chosen our time wrong. FAIL.

- 2 years ago: For some reason we decided to a similar party to the one I mentioned before. But in our minds it was going to be much better now. It was indeed a bit better but I clearly had not suddenly become a fan of this music style (to be honest, I still kind of hate it). So this year was no success either.

- Last year: This year we did not have a car available, which really is a problem during New Year's Eve in the Netherlands. First of all, there were no buses back home until 10am the next day so we arranged a last minute sleep-over at the house of the sister of my friend (who was not amused by the last-minute aspect). When we were waiting for the bus to the city (and the two buses after) we discovered that all public transport had stopped at 8pm that day. Luckily my parents were nice enough to drive us so we were not stuck in our little village. Unfortunately it turned out that most places in the city would only open after midnight, so we ended up hanging out at the house of a friend of my friends sister with all of her friends(tots sups awks!) until it was time to go to the party. The party itself was okay, but after it we were forced to tag along with my friends sister before going to her home and we ended up visiting all sorts of people we did not know whatsoever. This would have been more fun if it had not been 5am...

So, this year I choose the comfort of my own residence for the midnight moment. I will celebrate with my friend Samra (who will be visiting me) and a bunch of my housemates. After that we will be able to walk to town, so no lack of public transport can stop us. Take that, NYE!