After our experiences with the Christmas dinners, we thought it would be fun to get some kind of culinary take-away for today as well. There is a local Facebook group that collects information about restaurants doing delivery or take-out, and I trawled through that in order to find something suitable. One poster advertised a ‘Tunisian box’ with all ( Read more... )

The Netherlands has been slowly closing again, after everything was opened too early and, predictably, cases rose again. The complete mismanagement of the pandemic by the Dutch government is breathtaking, in a bad way. But that’s not what this entry is about - it is about what happened as a result. With restaurants now closed in the week leading up ( Read more... )

Every evening we re-group and watch a few videos on YouTube. I’ve built up quite a nice bubble with travel videos (mostly in Japan…), cooking, architecture and history, so it’s not hard to find interesting stuff to watch.
Since mid-September, there were some videos popping up about moon cakes, the traditional sweets to eat during the Chinese mid- ( Read more... )

It’s been quite a while since I posted on here. So why don’t I break the silence by showing you some photos I took from our trip to Texel last week? My mother in law had invited us (just like last year), and we stayed at the same camping in a ‘chalet’ (basically a trailer without wheels).

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So what do you do after working hard on the house for eight days straight, and the weather is very good? Well, you find a nearby foodtruck festival and go there!

As usual, we did a tour of all the offerings before we dug in. Instead of paying at the trucks themselves like we did with previous festivals, we had to buy ‘coins’ at a central spot. ( Read more... )

So I sent the photos of our haul at the foodtruck festival to my parents, and they were making appreciative noises at how good the food looked. So I checked their agenda, and I saw that the same festival was taking place in Eindhoven, near my parents, this weekend. So we invited them to check it out!
This Sunday was (and had been predicted to be) ( Read more... )

Last year, we went to the ‘Trek’(*) foodtruck festival in the city and had a great time (and great food)! This weekend is this year’s edition, and we invited babarage to come with us. We still had the (branded) hard plastic ‘glasses’ they use for the drinks over from last year, so we simply swapped our glasses for new ones when I went to get drinks ( Read more... )