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Auto Free Day
In veel steden kunnen fietsers en wandelaars zondag hun hart ophalen. Milieudefensie viert dan de tiende verjaardag van de zogenoemde autovrije dag. De straten in het centrum van 22 dorpen en steden zijn autovrij.
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Ridin’ the Rails
Last week when I went to visit my friend Penny in Roosendaal, I realized that it was the first time I was on a train here in the Netherlands in over 2 years. Since
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Gratis Inburgeren!
Do you have any idea what I’m talking about? If not, then you are proving something I’ve been asking myself about all the time. I’ve been seeing these ads on trams all over the
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Booo! OV Chipkaart
The new-ish thing for public transit here in Rotterdam is the OV Chipkaart. It’s a card that you can charge up with credit and use on the public transit to get around the city.
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The Change of Life
When I hear the term “The change of life” I go back in time to when I was a child and my mother had a hysterectomy. My father kept saying that my mother was
Read More »Dude?! Where’s My Train!?
Learned two valuable travel lessons this weekend. I had a petsitting job in Den Haag and on my way there my train stopped part way and wasn’t going any further, leaving me with no
Read More »The Worst is Over
Today I had the two worst parts of the Profieltoets, spreken (speaking) and Maatschappij-orientatie (social orientation). Speaking is always difficult because you have very limited amounts of time to think of what you want
Read More »One More Reason To Avoid Public Transit
There have been multiple bombings in London today. All taking place within the busses and underground of the city center. That’s pretty scary to think of all those people who were just doing their
Read More »Drat
So Bo didn’t win American Idol. Deep down I kind of knew it would go this way but I still hoped. Can’t say Carrie doesn’t deserve it though.. she’s quite talented. I was so
Read More »Musical Mongos
That’s what Xander calls the kids across the street. Mean I suppose, but I still can’t help but laugh when he tells me “The Musical Mongos are on parade!”. It’s that time of year
Read More »Murphy’s Law
I got my new hard disk yesterday! 200 gigs just waiting to be filled with downloaded movies, tv shows, music and whatever else I manage to get my mits on. I was so excited!
Read More »I’m Gone Dutch…
Today I got up and was checking my email before school. For some reason I decided to check this yahoo group I’d belonged to for ages but rarely read. It’s called Gone Dutch and
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