Fresh ‘n’ Fast
When I lived in Paris, I ate out a lot. And I mean, a lot. The food is good, the wine even better and there’s nothing out of the ordinary … Continue reading
Oost, west… oost best?
Without wanting these blog posts to become predictable, guess what I did last weekend? That’s right, I took a cheap flight from Eindhoven and went travelling again. This is the … Continue reading
Guilty Weekend Pleasures
January and February didn’t quite turned out to be the relaxing start to the new year I was hoping them to be. Work, a bout of man-flu and increasingly intense … Continue reading
Being a member of the (model) United Nations…
Since just before Christmas, a new delegation of Leiden students representing Leiden’s Model United Nations (MUN) committee met on a weekly basis in preparation for one of the biggest MUN … Continue reading
Lëtzebuerg
One of the many benefits of living in Leiden is being able to leave it so easily at the weekends. Not because Leiden is boring, far from it; you only … Continue reading
The Boekenzolder
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” Groucho Marx For its small size, Leiden never ceases to … Continue reading
Dutch Lesson #3 (and why I am glad)
dief = (n.) thief Lieve dief (dear thief), Happy New Year! I hope you’re enjoying my laptop. Its street-value is probably around the €50 … Continue reading
TED-spiration: a day in the life of a Leiden caveman
It’s now nearly a month since Leiden’s very own TEDx conference where speakers from all over the Netherlands and Europe gathered in the Meelfabriek to inspire we Leideners (and token … Continue reading
Dutch music: a brief introduction… (and/or Dutch Lesson #2)
I thought of basing my ‘Dutch Lesson #2′ post around a song that I recently heard, however due to the wealth of new lexicon that I have been exposed to … Continue reading
A taste of the Orient…
I’d been meaning to go to the Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde in Leiden for a while. It boasts a unique heritage, being the first ethnographic museum in the whole of Europe, and … Continue reading
