I should have kept track of how much beer I drank in my first year living in the Netherlands, as I suspect that it was more than I had drunk living in Melbourne for the previous four years. I’m really not a fan, and am much happier having either lemonade or raspberry vodkas when I’m [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 19, 2009
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Even though Rotterdam is apparently the most dangerous place in the Netherlands nowadays, taking over from Eindhoven, there’s a lot I like about it. For one, it actually looks like a city. There are buildings and trams and a metro system. Secondly, it appears to be very multicultural. There was a bit of attention recently [...]
July 4, 2009
Rotterdam, Brazil
I now have more Brazilian colleagues than Dutch, funnily enough, and they like to talk about Brazil, funnily enough, so I am slowly acquiring more and more facts about Brazil. The population of Brazil is about 200 million, which is ten times the population of Australia (and could explain why I’ve met more Brazilians than [...]
