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... acceptance that I rounded a corner to find the still handsome but entirely unwelcome golden dragon column some 45-50 minutes after I had left it.

I believe the term is, "D'oh!"

Second time lucky at the offending intersection and I was on my way to Eindhoven, unfortunately it started raining, which dampened my spirits a little, I stopped for a stretch and another bite in a nice park where I greeted a few dog walkers and their best friends. Back on the road ...

De voorbereidingen zijn in volle gang en verlopen voorspoedig. De reisroute is vastgesteld (althans, voor zover dat kan bij een trip als deze), de tickets zijn er, inclusief tickets voor alle treintrajecten. Het zal straks in de praktijk vast wel anders gaan, maar ze zijn niet zo duur en we hebben nu in elk geval een gereserveerde plaats. Meestal is het 2nd AC, op de eerste trajecten 3rd AC. Ook het visum hebben we nu. Volgende week krijgen we de typhusvaccinate, de rest was nog in orde.

... suspect that I may already have been coming down with something, as I will explain later. On my first day there, I met their lovely housekeeper Monica, and her daughter Jamie. Jamie is in Year 12 and just attempting to gain entry to Oxford University - quite an initimidating concept, and we had a good talk about what she wanted to study (philosophy, economics and politics) and what Oxford wants her to do to gain entry. All 5 of us went out for a nice Chinese/Japanese lunch, and ...

Day 4 With a Eurostar train trip later in the day, we could only stick around for half a day or so. After packing up all our gear, we caught a few acts. John Butler Trio - From Australia in the vein of Ben Harper. Nice and relaxing music ... just the thing for a lazy Sunday afternoon ...

... kids were there: my cousins Marc, Taco & Judith were there along with Judith's husband Taeke and son Wouter. My sister Henriette came from Hoorn and my sister Jaaike and her husband Horst came from Germany. There was even family from my mother's side - my cousin Pepi and his wife Bogusia from England.


Jaaike ...

... the only city with one). It is a manageable city to walk, but all the hills and cobbled streets started to wear on us. Dinner that night was one of the best I have had in a long time (no disrespect to Sevillana food). We shared a bottle of dry, sweet, white wine from Alsace. I stared with French onion soup (possibly my favorite soup). My entrée was literally a bucket of 40 to 50 mussels cooked in a cream, garlic sauce. Unbelievable. I ate some more fries ...

Just arrived in Belgium after a very short week in Paris. Not nearly enough time to see all we wanted to see and experience. We ended up seeing most everything we wanted but to really experience things we didn't have near enough time. Were at the hostel here right by the train station. Man you come out of the station and there is a parking lot. NOt for cars, it's like 10000 bicycles. This place is a ...

... provided the occasion for a salute to Cold Turkey Press by the Rotterdam Historische Museum which opened on this bright Sunday afternoon. The Cold Turkey books and a selection of materials from the Cold Turkey Press archives are being exhibited at the Historische Museum in Het Schielandshuis from May 16 to July 16, 2006, including publications, letters, posters and other artifacts from the Cold Turkey Press authors and collaborators. Ben and ...

... since I've been back, and I'll write more about the show in my next post. And hey, Happy Indian Sunday and St. Joseph's Night to everybody in New Orleans! For now, here is the main piece I'm doing tonight with Raskolnikov in honor of Herman Brood, it's #75 in the book of monk and it's called "brilliant corners": #75 "brilliant corners" for steve hager & paul krassner out of the darkness of the second world war before the soldiers came back to turn ...

... je moest het maar iets nodig hebben en het thuis hebben laten liggen.

Maar zo, ik vertrek! Ik ga genieten van mijn jaar in het buitenland, aan het strand, tussen de palmbomen, de blauwe zee. Zoals ik het opnoem lijkt het wel een droomvakantie. Maar vergeet niet: de nieuwe taal, nieuwe mensen, nieuwe gewoonten, nieuwe omgeving, ... Hier lijkt het een avontuur dat ik absoluut niet wil vergeten.

Later meer.

Groetjes Stefanie