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Skhay-vuh-ninghen......right?
We enjoyed a late Sunday morning breakfast with the family, then it was off to het Keringhuis, part of the WaterWerks. It's a giant gate that can be closed across the Maas. It was pretty cool! It was a rainy day, but this was mostly inside. The Dutch have learned a thing or thirty about managing floods and storm surges, and the engineering is truly amazing.
After the Keringhius, we headed over to ...
We're Goin' Dutch!!!!
... a feckin word I said to him cos what I thought I ordered was a hot fish dish with spuds turned out to be a cold fish dish....with no spuds!!! But when I asked him for a pint of milk with my lunch you could just see the final remnants of the poor lads comprehension just crumble away & drift off somewhere. Vervent hand gestures simulating the milking of a small invisible cow standing on my lap were embellished by a couple of Belfast accents going "Mooooooo!!!!"...the ...
A holiday from travelling
I have decided to write one entry about what I did in Europe because I have been lazy and it would take to long to now write up individual entries for everything I did. After 6 months in South America I was finally ready to go somewhere else. I had a great time but after a while you get a little sick of the same type of food and old buses. I had arranged my flight to be in Europe in time for the Queens birthday in Holland as this was recommended by me by many ...
Bijna vertrokken
... Dat zal niet goed te krijgen zijn in het verre oosten vermoed ik. Verder kijk ik al met enige heimwee (toch!) naar mijn gitaar. Ik speel niet heel veel, maar ik heb er soms wel heel veel behoefte aan.
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Wooden spoons
... not that I was complaining.
For me however the journey to and from the exhibition was a bit more memorable than perhaps it should have been. Although I may have been strutting earlier on in these blogs about how I was going to hire a bike to cycle to work every day, well, I haven't; and I was not quite prepared for the bikes you hire from stations. Turns out they have no brakes, you peddle backwards you see (which my brain needs to really think about every time ...