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Drugs & Graphs: A match made in heaven
Do you like pyschoactive drugs and Venn diagrams? Then have I got something for you!
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Dutch false friends
"Alsjeblieft" means "Thank you". whoops, I should have said "Please".
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Amsterdam Sail 2010
This week there is a festival known as Amsterdam Sail going on in the city.
It involves dozens of old-timey tallships sailing into the port of Amserdam and having people boozing it up.
It was quite an impressive sight. I was actually surprised by the size of some of them. I had always thought the ships from the Age of Sail were much smaller.
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We went to Brussels for the wedding of a French woman and and a American man, which included all the proceeds, including the reception and speeches being translated into both languages, like some sort of nupital UN.
The day after we had a bit of a wander around Brussels itself. Vero is a bit of a comics fan, so our first stop was a comics shop, or a ( Read more... ) -
Oz trip
I got back from my trip to Brisbane a few weeks ago. The purpose of the trip was to go to the weddings of my sister and my friend Troy (seperate weddings). I'd supply photos, but I think everyone who reads this blog is well aware of what Brisbane looks like ( Read more... ) -
Luxembourg
Last weekend was a long weekend so I rallied a few friends to go climbing in western Germany. European weather being was it is, at the last minute it got rainy, and my friends all got unenthusiastic for a six hour drive to sit under a rock watching it drizzle. As a compromise, we went to Luxembourg, in the hope that it would be drier there.
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Talking about the weather
Snow is very lovely, but unfortunately there is only a week or two of it and then you've got months of cold, grey, windy weather to deal with. At that time of year, I wonder what the hell I'm doing in Amsterdam ( Read more... ) -
Chinese vegetarians
I went down to Rotterdam last week to go to a museum. On the way there, we got hungry and decided to go to one of the Chinese restaurants that we were passing by.
I'm not normally too keen on Chinese food because the vegetarian options are normally pretty limited, even things like Braised Vegetables often have pork in them.
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The sweet taste of home
I went to a post-movie drink with some friends last night.
They all (a mixture of French & English folks) wanted to go to the local Australian bar. I resisted. They insisted.
Trying to get into the spirit I ordered a VB.
It cost 5 Euro 50.
Thats $8.50 is the old country.
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My laptop sits on an old wooden desk in the kitchen and has a small drawer with a wood and brass handle on the front. The desk was in the apartment when I moved in.
In the far left corner of the desk, against the white stucco wall is a book, lying lengthwise, called 'Onder de Australische zon', a Dutch translation of an Harlequin romance novel, ( Read more... )