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pax_athena- Yoga makes me wide awake. Which is annoying on one side given how the yoga courses I can attend are all from 6 to 7:30, I only get home at 8:15 and actually want to be in bed, reading, by 10 PM. And cool on the other, because I do feel awake and good.
- Dutch museums are the best (things to remember: the white melted styrofoam sculpture; visitor reactions being incorporated into the exhibition; the 1000 years old ship; the man with the swan and the different readings of the same artwork). Also, the museums-card is the best because it allows all those wonderful short visits.
- Utrecht is indeed pretty! So much Art Nouveau! Such cool more modern building, such harmony between the different ages! And has a feminist academic-flavored bookstore that I may be a bit in love with. (Got two novels and did not get a book on linguistics although I was very tempted.) Thank you so much,
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luna_puella for realizing that I would love it!
- My new hand blender is the best. After the first I bought turned out to be such a failure, I got a 600W one. And oh, frozen kiwis? Give me 20 seconds and they are wonderfully incorporated into a smoothie.
- Also, I now have a partner in crime for Michelin-star adventures in Amsterdam. I guess I am at the point in my life where I do have special friends for going to expensive restaurants with. Now we only need to figure out when both of us have free - we have already agreed that weekends are a no-go and are likely harder to book anyway.
- And to counteract what people keep telling about Dutch food: it may be often breads and salads, but I haven't had a bad salad (i.e. the typical pile of iceberg lettuce with a few tomatoes and something that resembles meat on top) here yet. I am very happy. (That said, I do find my colleagues eating bread with chocolate and sugar sprinkles for lunch ... strange. I do get it as a desert from time to time, but not for lunch every day.)
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Date: 2017-02-20 11:22 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-02-21 05:56 am (UTC)Fun! Utrecht is a lovely city.
It's a shame I didn't know you were meeting up but then such is life.
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Date: 2017-02-22 08:46 pm (UTC)(Any change for a dinner during the week? Or should I try to get in touch when I'm in Amsterdam for work?)
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Date: 2017-02-23 08:40 am (UTC)❤
Fair enough! I can understand that.
Evenings are iffy in terms of my health but how about I show you around Haarlem (current home town) or Delft (born and raised) and some point in the future? That'd be nice. I know you have a crazy schedule so whenever works for both. Weekends are generally best for me......
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Date: 2017-02-23 08:52 pm (UTC)Actually, the weekend of March 4./5. is free - there is a small chance that I will go to Germany for the PhD defence of a friend (if I get a cheap flight, but the chances are low), but if you are willing to risk it ... The next 4-5 weekends I'm traveling for either work or fun.
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Date: 2017-02-24 07:16 pm (UTC)I cannot next weekend. We have the diner chantant thingie (did you mention you hate singing? 😉)
So that takes us into april I guess!
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Date: 2017-02-25 09:01 pm (UTC)(Yeah, singing is not mine. Also big groups of new people. I can do that if needed but ...).
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Date: 2017-02-22 08:55 pm (UTC)https://www.okura.nl/en/culinary/sazanka/
Die haben extra ein vegetarisches Menü - bei den Menus stehen auch die Preise mit dran; wenn du abends nicht heim fahren willst, gibt es bei mir in Leiden gerne eine Couch.
Das wäre allerdings was für in einem halben Jahr oder so. Ich kann mir so was auch nicht oft leisten XD
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Date: 2017-02-23 07:44 am (UTC)Die Couch würde ich dann sogar in Anspruch nehmen weil ich gesehen habe, dass die zu dem Menu auch ein Weinpaket anbieten :D
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Date: 2017-02-23 07:04 pm (UTC)(Und ich verspreche mich nicht über NASA aufzuregen beim Abendessen und so XD Das tue ich nämlich normalerweise nicht!)
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Date: 2017-02-21 09:26 am (UTC)Ich möchte auch gern in die Niederlande fahren und Museen besichtigen *_*
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Date: 2017-02-22 09:08 pm (UTC)Du kannst gerne mal für ein WE vorbeikomme. Aber eher so ab August, bis dahin ist irgendwie schon alles ausgebucht XD (Außer wohl diesem WE, weil die ♥ wegen dem Sturm morgen gerade seinen Flug gecancelt haben. ARGH.)
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Date: 2017-02-24 06:29 am (UTC)Wenn wir im Juni noch einmal drüber sprechen, reicht das vollkommen!
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Date: 2017-02-22 09:20 pm (UTC)I'm glad you had fun! I did too.
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Date: 2017-02-23 08:37 am (UTC)Vlokken! :)
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Date: 2017-02-23 08:48 pm (UTC)(I do tease you lovingly, though. Just in case this is not obvious :D)
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Date: 2017-02-24 07:15 pm (UTC)😊 you just turn your bread into a cake! Granted I don't love them myself but I do have them perhaps like twice a year? Today I had one for breakfast
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Date: 2017-02-25 09:03 pm (UTC)That said, if I want to do so, I turn to appelstroop - I just loooove it. And it always feels so rich and decadent to me to eat it for some reason :D
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Date: 2017-02-28 08:34 am (UTC)mein blender nervt mich ja manchmal. der zerhackelt die sachen manchmal nicht, weil der die dann so an den rand schießt, dass in der mitte nix mehr ist. dafür ist das mahlwerk super für nüsse etc mahlen. immerhin.
ach und die niederländer und ihre streusel....dafür aber auch speculoos. pfannkuchen mit speculoos und erdbeermarmelade und ich bin im geschmackshimmel :D
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Date: 2017-02-28 12:37 pm (UTC)Ich habe ja auch "nur" einen Stabmixer, hätte oben klarer sein sollen. So was wie Nüsse geht vermutlich gar nicht, aber ansonsten ist der neue super. Das war halt echt der unterschied zwischen 200 Watt und 600 Watt (wobei mein Blender in den USA auch nur 200 war, aber dafür, wie ich im Nachhinein festgestellt habe, von einer Firma, die sonst Geräte für Großküchen herstellt, die können so was einfach).
Speculoos ist nicht meins. Aber appelstroop. Davon konnte ich endlos viel essen :D