Round-Up

Despite quiz night and dinner with friends, it’s been a fairly low-key week, so not a lot to say. I’ll just cover the highlights here.

Tuesday was another Murphy’s Quiz Night at the Potdeksel. Our goal is simply not to come in last, and once again, for the third month in a row, we’ve achieved that [...]

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Plus Ten

after the show
Last Saturday, 10 of us (René, Merian, Guy, Willianne, Edmar, Eric, Lip, Giovanni, his mother and myself) went to the Bimhuis in Amsterdam to see The Bad Plus. They’re a modern jazz trio from the US, who also had a guest vocalist with them who joined them for the second half of the [...]

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Happy Hogmanay

The lasagna is made and ready to be cooked. The house is cleaned and the champagne is chilling. The firecrackers/fireworks have been going off all day — all week, really — and I’m sure at midnight it will be incredibly loud and noisy. We’ll be contributing to the noise, as we’re spending the evening at [...]

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New Year’s at the Potdeksel

We were at the Potdeksel this week and got an early viewing of the video for Sjarrel and Sjaan’s New Year’s single. It was filmed at the Potdeksel. Fred, the owner, is also the manager for Sjarrel and Sjaan. (FYI, their names sound like Sheryl and Sean, basically.)
The Christmas tree is [...]

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Randomness

Fountain at Janskerkhof
Originally uploaded by indigo_jones

Despite our anniversary being last Wednesday, we didn’t go out for our planned sushi dinner until Saturday. We went to Konichiwa over on Mariaplaats. Sadly, no toro (a type of tuna), but we did try something new: baars. It wasn’t until we got home that we found out it’s perch. [...]

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Dinner Plans

We’re having R & M (the former house owners) over for dinner tomorrow night. G’s making his famous lasagna, which I’m looking forward to devouring! Unfortunately, the house isn’t quite as finished as I would have liked, but I guess we’ve done ok for having started from scratch two months ago. Maybe we can invite [...]

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Witches and Walks

Friday evening turned into an enjoyable night out with friends, where we met new people and learned a few interesting facts. After dinner, we went over to Café Potdeksel, as we do, and met up with René and a few other regulars; Merian joined us later. We also met a good friend of René’s and [...]

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Culinary Adventures

It’s nigh on impossible to walk anywhere here without seeing restaurant signs advertising shoarma. It seems to be massively popular here. We haven’t tried it yet, but we’re going to be trying a variation tonight. It’s such a popular dish that you can buy the meat already sliced and marinating in the seasoning from the [...]

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Far-Flung Friends

A friend of mine from one of the websites I’ve been involved with for years has been living in the UK for a few years now. She’s soon returning to the US, though, but has been making the most of her proximity to Europe to squeeze in a few more trips. This past weekend, she [...]

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