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Preuvenemint 2013 24 Aug 2013 | 06:19 pm
It’s time for the annual Food Fair, Preuvenemint, filling the Vrijthof with eten en drinken goodness. It kicked off tonight, then runs through Sunday from midday until past midnight. It’s a big par...
Inkom Maastricht 22 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
The birds are starting to gather above the Maas each evening, flocking and wheeling before migrating south. And the streets are filled with new students at Maastricht University, flocking and biking...
Living in Elysium 19 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
I missed a big change in Dutch Life this summer: koopzondag is no more. Or, as I found out, kooopzondag is ‘Evermore. For many years, the Dutch have taken Sunday off: the stores close, the restauran...
Contemplatively crossing the Channel 18 Aug 2013 | 07:12 pm
I was late pulling out of Barrington – ‘had hoped to be on the road by 1 but it ended up being 1:30 for a 4 pm ferry. I was up early and working, but the refrigerator unexpectedly died, leaving me wi...
Recent reading (and Bubble Tea) 17 Aug 2013 | 02:55 am
I’ve been on the road all week: London, Southampton, Poole and Cambridge, angels and hospitals, critics and friends. It’s meant a bit more windshield time than usual, some time browsing reading in o...
Wisdom takes flight 17 Aug 2013 | 01:18 am
It’s finally been a really good day, after two unnecessarily hard months, after struggle on too many fronts for much longer than that. ‘Miss having someone to share it with, but it’s a good feeling, ...
Acrid Tuesday 15 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
I was finishing a conference call with the US, pleasingly complete at 5 pm, when the apartment began to fill with smoke. ‘first thought was for my Crackling Pork Shoulder that went into the oven at 2...
Ten wishes 12 Aug 2013 | 03:54 am
I was given a magic wand by a friend of mine and asked to list ten wishes that I would grant myself with it. No easy task; I completed it past-midnight, as these sorts of things are properly meant ...
Sunday reflections 11 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
There’s definitely an autumn tang in the air: crisp cool mornings, leaf-damp fogs, combines chewing through fields of wheat along the road to Royston. My brother says that there’s fresh snow in Colo...
Narrowboating the Middle Level - 2 10 Aug 2013 | 06:04 pm
The thunderstorms rolled in about 5 am; rain clattered off the top deck of the steel ceiling. ‘Not much hope of getting more sleep, so I rolled out and boiled some water. Coffee is always good comfo...
