And once again hecubah came over. Although we always plan to meet up every three weeks or so, she's more and more becoming a very frequent visitor to our place. She was here last week, decided to come over this week and will be here for our Halloween-fest next week. I guess the long train ride can't keep the three of us apart. Hell, I even picked her up, ( Read more... )

To cope with all the necessities at hand last week, I've had to run pretty much all week, which explains why I haven't posted in over a week now. (Except for the little meme I posted the other day, that is ( Read more... )

Tuesday, cy-v went to the animal zoo in the town of Emmen as we received vouchers for free entry to a select number of zoos in the country. It was a close call between the highly rated 'traditional' zoo in Emmen, and the safari park "Beekse Bergen", but in the end we preferred Emmen as it has a butterfly garden ( Read more... )

Samantha and me just boarded the train to Brussels, for a short 2-day mini break. For her birthday, Samantha had gotten a hotel voucher for a stay in a trendy hotel, to be freely chosen from a shortlist. We chose the hotel that appealed most to us, regardless of its location. It was a close call between the 101 Ku'damm in Berlin and the 5-star be ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to get the train tickets for Sam and my trip to Brussels tomorrow, and had to get the tickets at the counter, as the tickets I needed aren't available at ticketing machines, due to the complex nature of it: free travel on the Dutch part of the outbound journey, then regular weekend discount at the Belgian part of the entire journey ( Read more... )