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26 mai 2008

Kabouters

Delft, rain and sun together, not too cold Today I feel like talking about mythology. Dutch mythology. This sounds incredible as Dutch people are very down-to-Earth sort of people, not at all the kind of people to recognize alien spaceships in the oddly...

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4 septembre 2007

Munich - before departure -

Munich/Munchen is a really nice city, as appeared when I read my guide-book the sunday before departure. In Munich, you have the best museums: the Neue Pinakothek, the Alte Pinakothek, the Archeology museum, the Stadtmuseum. You find an amazing amount...

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10 septembre 2007

A princess in my kitchen

Wouiiiinnnnn... my best friend in hard times (got him when I joined University) is feeling like it is time to retire... We used to be an excellent team, through the tuff period of my studies. I'll miss him. ... so I went coffee-machine shopping, and for...

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11 septembre 2007

Watch your a(l)titude...

Holland is a country that fights (and has always fought) against water. Without dikes or dunes, Holland would look like this (blue means "under water"): Delft is roughly the red dot. According to a website where I could fill in my house postcode, I live...

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30 septembre 2007

Tonnerre de Brest!

Brest, weather: not too bad, 15 degrees I just spent 4 days in the city of Brest (in Brittany), for a conference (about: guess what ;-) !). I gave my first talk on the subject, and it went quite all right. Apart from the fact that I am working on "clean"...

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8 octobre 2007

Champignons, mushrooms and other toadstools...

Corrèze, one week of GOOD weather (20-25 degrees and sun!) This year is a bad year for mushroom-hunters, so it says on the first page of the local newspaper of this week (continued p.3 with interviews of local connaisseurs): no cèpes this year! Even so,...

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26 octobre 2007

Friday's cleaning cake

I neglected a bit my kitchen. That's a sin or at least it would be if I had to throw food away (hate to throw food away). So, what to do with: old crème fraiche, half a cup of old olive oil, some old eggs and some old ginger roots? Easy! A delicious ginger...

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23 octobre 2007

Eatable mice

Delft, COLD (freezes today!), but sunny I entered the supermarket just to buy muisjes, and got out with a bag full... without muisjes. I am tired. Too much work, I told you ;-PMuisjes (litt. mice!) is a kind of sprinkle for your morning bread. It is made...

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22 octobre 2007

Soap Story

Let me be honnest: I am in a working period - so my life is really exiting: - getting-up - having a strong Princess coffee (just bought her 1x2 filters, damn, they are 30 cents more expensive than the 1x4!! - dutch side complaining) - looking at the news...

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21 septembre 2007

Christiana with Christiane...

Oslo, 5 degrees, sun and rain Really nice stay (too short, too short) in Oslo, and most of the fun I give credit to Christiane (thanks, Christiane! Your sofa is very comfy :-)). And then, I had an excellent time gå-ing ;-) in town with a real native (Bård),...

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9 septembre 2007

Exception française

Delft, cloudy, sunny, 20 degrees Today was one of those days that I decided to "tidy up" my bookcases... but as usual, an annoying conclusion came rapidly in sight: bookcases are not expandable, and whatever you try, you will not fit a new book in an...

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8 septembre 2007

Meisjeshuis

Delft, Monumentendag, great weather... untill we started to sing (true! we just had a shower during our performance!... again sunny afterwards) :-P Cantiamo in Ireland Monumentendag is a great week-end: during Saturday and Sunday you can visit all the...

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19 août 2007

The Island of Doom

Texel in July, very cold, windstorm and rain I long complained, but it finally occured: I had to go to the island of Texel, the largest of the dutch islands, for a summer school. The adventure lived up to the expectation. We found what we came for: MUD...

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22 août 2008

22-08-08

Delft, cloudy, cold Ok, ok, you are thinking "she is on holidays". Wrong. I WAS on holidays (10 days), but needed at least 10 days to recover... and I have to confess: no inspiration at all to write. I'm not saying that the inspiration came back, but...

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11 septembre 2008

See you

I live close to a church, and around the corner there are some shops: an estate agent, a butcher that sells tasty sandwiches (according to the queue at noon), a hobby-shop where you find papers, pens, pencils, paint, plenty of things for handicraft, a...

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27 septembre 2008

Sharpened almonds

The past two days, I was in Vannes, a nice old medieval city in Brittany, for a symposium. It was a small symposium (10 people), but extremely cozy and well organized. The person who was picking us (a belgian professor and myself) up from the station...

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15 mai 2008

Piuki takes a bath

PIUKI IS A DOG. PIUKI IS A DIRTY DOG. PIUKI TAKES A BATH. PIUKI IS WET. PIUKI IS CLEAN. PIUKI IS DRY. HOURRAY FOR PIUKI! read further: Hourray for Piuki! Piuki is our mascot!! Piuki is a dirty dog but now he takes a bath. Piuki is clean and dry. Piuki...

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12 janvier 2009

Ice and fun

Even though those two words never go together in my brain, I learnt since a week to appreciate the atmosphere surrounding this once-in-15-years event: Dutch can skate on "natural" ice again! My colleagues have twinklings in their eyes and are happy to...

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20 décembre 2008

the war of the lions

In England they had a war between a red and a white rose and they battled until one disapeared. In Holland, there is no war, there is the "polder" model which means consensus. This is how "my" lion became "the" lion. In other words: the Postbank merged...

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10 janvier 2009

Fenland

The word for Finland in Finnish is "Suomi". Both "suo" and "fin" seem to be derived from the root "fen" (in Dutch still "veen") = wetland, which sounds quite appropriate for the country of the 1000 lakes...This year my New Year's eve has been quite memorable...

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12 décembre 2008

"à nous de vous faire préférer le train"

You want to get pissed-off and grumpy a whole day? Try www. sncf . fr, the french railway website. In ALL other countries I know, when you type www. . you get what you want: the timetables and prices for the trains. In...

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8 novembre 2007

yes! yes! yes!

Lemons, herbal tea (rooibos tea) and warm blankets: it seems that I mastered the cold (my throat does not hurt anymore)... pleaaaaaase keep crossing everything you can cross for me :)) ... I have to feel better in Trondheim!!... a book I got when I was...

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4 novembre 2008

first class

Delft, foggy, not too cold timetable: 10:45-12:30 : first lesson of the course dynamics, 200 first-years (actually about 100 showed-up), and I was doing the show. Cool. Everything went fine. It just looked a bit stupid when the cord of my microphone got...

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23 novembre 2007

Fakta

I always like to read newspaper on the plane... Usually you find articles about topics you would never have thought about... and that you promptly forget as soon as you leave the airport. Those newspapers (british, american) usually bring you all over...

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10 décembre 2007

French kisses

There was an interesting article in the (french) newspaper this morning, entitled "how many kisses do you give?". France is a country where a civilized person kisses. You kiss your friends, your colleagues and even your boss if he asks for it (at the...

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