USA II + Vienna 2018

Sep. 25th, 2018 04:15 pm
pax_athena: (swing ride)
I guess this (short glimpses of my life via commented photos) seems to be my new post format? I'll just roll with it. We'll see how long it stays that way.

So let's go back to the last two weeks of August and the USA (August 17-25) & Austria (August 26 - September 3) trip.

( food, museums, geeky stuff, etc. )




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drink / hike / forage / cook

Aug. 20th, 2017 08:00 pm
pax_athena: (into the nature)
This weekend I spent mostly on my couch. Well, I did go grocery shopping and I did cook and I did run (ugh, I should talk about running at some point, shouldn't I?) and I did iron all the clothes from the last month (and watch quiet a bit of the third season of Voltron; I still think the series is meh, but the female/male ratio both in lions and in general is suddenly much better and Lotor *is* a delight), but mostly I spent it on the couch.

Last weekend, however, was rather different. I went to Rosenheim, where I did:

1. Drink

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2. Go to the mountains


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3. Forage

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4. Make dessert


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Feb. 20th, 2017 10:01 pm
pax_athena: (for you)
  • 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, [livejournal.com profile] 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.)
  • Location: leiden
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