As soon as I was feeling not-sick enough to go on another bike adventure, I rode to Dordrecht and then on to an epic national park called de Biesbosch. I first spent an hour or two trying to get Jacques, my French road bike, to shift properly. The problem seemed to be a bent derailleur […]
Often I find myself without plans for the weekend until Saturday morning. It’s a result of starting work in the afternoon and working until about 9pm. I do this in order to have more time to overlap with my colleagues who are mostly in Boston and Providence. As a result, my Saturdays tend to be […]
For the past nine days, I have had a hacking cough that wakes me up at night. The first couple of days, it was terrible, but now it is just annoying. The downside of this, aside from just being sick, is that I have been isolating myself from my newly established daily activities. I have […]
I had heard that drum and bugle corps was a bit of a thing in the Netherlands, and upon researching show schedules, I found that the Drum Corps Netherlands championships was scheduled to take place not too far from Delft at a date within my visit. Naturally, I went with bells on (and by bells, […]
Up until this point, I had been living here mainly as an outsider. My typical day was something like the following. Morning: wake up leisurely around 8:30, make myself breakfast, do some necessary errand such as buying groceries or do something fun like explore the market that happens twice a week in the town center. […]
Update: turns out I made a common mistake in thinking that this was the scene of Vermeer’s View of Delft. The gate in Vermeer’s painting is actually the Rotterdam Gate, which was torn down in 1836. Oops. While Em was here, she provided a quick crash course in Dutch art history that included many field […]
An eclectic assortment of objects that each reminded me of someone. Kristin Noah, a.k.a. Noo Noo Kira Matthew Nancy Burlap Jack Smooth