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.