Free Good Music

One of my favorite bands, The Phoenix Foundation, is releasing an EP on December 7, to tide us over while we wait for their next full-length album to come out sometime next year. To tide us over until December 7, they’ve released a free download of a song off the new EP. You can get [...]

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Links 234

I’ve not got too much to say today, since the past few days have been little more than me wrestling with Dreamweaver as I try to build a website for my editing service. Plus, despite my ability to ramble on here about next to nothing, I find it difficult to write about myself, particularly in [...]

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Expats Everywhere

My fondness for alliteration became evident to me back when I was a magazine editor. Obviously, I view blog titles much the same way I used to view subheds — a good excuse to use some quick alliteration.
Anyway, enough with the random rambling. It’s time to share some link love. If you look closely at [...]

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World Press Photo Exhibit

The World Press Photo exhibit is an annual photojournalism event showcasing winning photos in different categories. The exhibit starts here in the Netherlands, where the organization was founded, and works its way around the world for a year. When we moved here last year, I saw the banner for the exhibit at Janskerk, but didn’t [...]

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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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Stop Inburgering Me!

(the building where I had to go for my appointment on Monday)
A couple of weeks ago, I got a folder in the mail from the Gemeente Utrecht (city offices sort of thing). That’s rarely a good thing anywhere, so I was apprehensive opening it. Sure enough, there was a letter telling me I was invited [...]

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Dinner and a Debate

G’s off to Germany today, so I’m on my own for dinner. A Dutch Flickr contact has been a dining influence for me recently, with her lovely food photos. First it was her variation of shoarma and tonight it was a version of gado-gado. I didn’t bother with the salad part and just went with [...]

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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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Exploration

Pippo and I took a walk today down Nobelstraat, past Janskerkhof, and then back home via Voorstraat. Despite the constant pulling on his part, he was actually quite the good boy and put up with me stopping constantly to take photos. He even let me have a bit of fun with him. I didn’t mean [...]

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