NL all over: Utrecht

Part three of my Dutch holiday was a long-awaited trip to Utrecht. I’ve passed through here several times before, and have been outside the station once (to the uni), but never in the actual town itself.
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Unfortunately the day was really awful — cloudy and rainy — so really only suitable for museum visiting. [...]

NL all over: Groningen

Stop two on my tour of the Netherlands was Groningen, the largest town in the north. It’s a three hour-plus train ride from Eindhoven.
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The first stop in Groningen is usually the Groninger Museum, which is just near the station. It’s a crazy, crazy building. At the moment the theme is China and there [...]

NL all over: Lelystad

The first half of my summer holiday consists of two half weeks of work and two half weeks of travelling around the country, seeing some cities off the beaten track and some cities that I really should have seen by now but haven’t. The other aim was to visit some provinces that I hadn’t been [...]

Group exercise

An extremely old hobby of mine is running. I decided to take it up again recently — I really don’t know why, there’s not particularly any nice/safe places to run around my place and I am dreadful at running — and made myself a training schedule at myasics.nl, which I then promptly ignored due to [...]

Podcasting

The recent article in Cursor about me mentioned I get my news about the Netherlands from a variety of sources, in particular podcasts. I am a bit of an Apple fan (as you can see from the MacBook in the Cursor photo) and can usually been seen walking around campus with my iPod nano (it [...]

Border crossing

In May I visited an old friend in Hasselt, Belgium. Hasselt lies directly south of Eindhoven, with a straight line distance of ~60km. It sounds all so simple. Here is how I travelled to Hasselt on a Saturday:

Caught a train at Eindhoven in the direction of Maastricht (currently ~60km away).
Alighted in Sittard 45 minutes later, [...]