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... Fernando in Peru !! I am SO happy!<br>I will be there from December 12th until 30th and spend New Years Eve in Den Haag. <br><br>So many exciting things are going to happen, hehe... and please come and visit me in Dublin, you are all very welcome!<br><br>Big Hugs,<br><br>Jo x<br>

Het is bijna zover! Mijn studie is afgerond, de laatste inentingen zijn gehaald, en nu is het inpakken en wegwezen... Op naar het avontuur!<br> <br>Ik hoop dat ik op reis genoeg gelegenheid zal hebben om af en toe van me te laten horen, en mijn belevenissen aan jullie te vertellen, en ook zou ik het heel leuk vinden om af en toe van jullie te horen hoe het thuis gaat. <br><br>Hopelijk tot onderweg : ) <br> <br>Veel liefs, Claar<br>

... the operation went oke and all seems well with mother and child! Which means I am now the proud Aunt of ALEX, who is of course is the most beautiful Dutch-Asian baby-boy I have ever seen ;-)))))))) See the photos and judge for yourself. Only positive feedback on this blog though, father and mother dó read this website as well hahaha Will write you soon about other happenings in my life!

... wine for confidence &amp; some hot nuts we decided to hit the ice skating ring , even though not many people where very good everyone was laughing and smiling and whole families dressed with santa hats were watching and smiling , it really was like we were in a dream ! Even though we didnt get a lot of snow , it was cold enough to keep a gorgous white layer over the city for a week or so &amp; the canals all froze up so we could go ice skating on the ...

... freed us from the swamp. Plan B was to find a hotel. The first one we tried was easy to find, but unfortunately closed. A quick check in the guidebook confirmed that the Hotel Euro was the only other option, so we attempted to drive to it. After spending around 2 hours fruitlessly searching for an address that turned out to be a shop on a pedestrianised street, we eventually discovered the hotel some distance ...

... styles (fantastic Gothic style with flying buttresses) having been completed first. Economics what they were, though, the middle part of the cathedral connecting the tower and the choir was built cheaply and without the flying buttresses, which meant that when a freak tornado ripped through town years later, the middle part collapsed. Now it's just a nice shady tree-lined street. Anyhow, you can take a tour of the tower (say that 10 ...

... I did not quite get it straight which. This is apparently because the history of that part of Rotterdam was very boggy until they started to drain it. This happened at various times between the 1700s and the 1900s. They also built a series of ditches or drains which would allow the spill over of water from one into another. The canals were, of course, part of the waterway system as well but they were for commercial purposes. I walked down their street along the ...

October 13 In the morning (13th), Hanneke had to go to class quite early so we had a calm breakfast and then we left appart while I started walking to the center on a misty morning. I finally sms Jenny and went to her place so that I could relax some more and leave my bag while we would go to do a city tour. One of the first thing I have done once there is that she made me use her Venus razor so that I could get rid of this growing ...

... bad cheering their losses, Yay for the losers!So, anyhow. We are going into Amsterdam today, hopefully to see some museums and find some good shopping. I haven't had any time in the past week to look for anything...hopefully there are some places open in Amsterdam on a Sunday. There should be, but there isn't anything open here in Utrecht today. Cheers for now!

... watching the Dutch instead of the other way. Anyways, we entered the zoo and were immediately greeted by the guests of honor. There were cute little monkeys all over the place. There were signs that asked the guests not to handle the monkeys (see Pic 22) but much like in Gibraltar, everyone ignored the signs (see Pic 23). Even Julie couldn't resist (see Pic 24). Luckily, the zoo is very strict about having its guests empty their pockets into 'monkeyvrij' (monkey free ...