So we’ve all been burning our candle at both ends a little bit—okay, a lot—and wanted a nice quiet night in. Our professor had brought his banjo (apparently it’s a critical part of his sanity routine, which explains so much) and L.M. had brought her guitar; quite a lot of my classmates had brought their [...]
Read the rest of Netherlands: Wine, women, and song
We spent Saturday in a Dutch national park, “De Hoge Veluwe”. It. Was. Awesome.
The Dutch national obsssion with bikes apparently led to the creation of this park, which is, admittedly, out in the back of the beyond and requiring two separate bus trips (one of them very, very long) out there. Then this wee little [...]
Read the rest of Netherlands: Kröller-Müller Museum
Today we left for a weekend excusion to Arnhem, with exciting bicycle complications. A group of people wanted to bike part of the way, a few (a very few) wanted to bike the whole way, and some of us were lazy and just wanted to take the train. I fell into that last category.
So the [...]
Read the rest of Netherlands: Inappropriate propositions and appropriate vegetation
Well, Delft didn’t happen. Or rather, it did, as I’m reasonably sure that the combined mental powers of the residents and daily visitors to Delft fix it firmly in existence, but I was not one of those daily visitors. Since arriving in Rotterdam I’ve had this persistent and obnoxious chesty-coughy-congestion thing going on which has [...]
Read the rest of Netherlands: Soul Coughing
August 26, 2009 Wednesday
Today was a day of many firsts. After sampling some Dutch soy sausage stuff (a distinctly odd first, although not untasty) at breakfast, we had class. Post-academia, I led a group of about four people to the nearby park where I pretended to be a yoga teacher for about an hour. Despite [...]
Read the rest of Netherlands: A firstful day
...It’s the only way to be sure.
Thanks to, apparently, a hurricane and a few other weather systems churning their way up the East Coast, my flight from Boston to Newark and thence to Amsterdam was delayed for three hours, leading to my inevitable rebooking on a later (direct, thankfully) flight that will get me in [...]
Read the rest of Netherlands Day 1: Newark it from orbit.