Boot Disaster

We went out today to hit up the Fred de la Bretoniere winkel (shop) so I could get some boots that I saw modeled on the lovely author of the 3continentfamily blog. They looked like the perfect pair of comfortable, kick-ass boots. Sadly, I waited to long to go check them out and when I [...]

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Kerstmarkt

Germany isn’t the only place to have Christmas markets; The Netherlands has it’s fair share of them and we went to one of them yesterday here in Utrecht. De Kerstmarkt in de Twijnstraat (The Christmas market in Twijnstraat) was a one-day event down in the southern tip of the city center. We weren’t really going [...]

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Makeup and Okra

After putting off a trip to The Body Shop for weeks, I decided to finally go today to pick up some makeup I’m nearly out of at this point. Sadly, the sunshine of yesterday is but a distant memory today, but I headed out regardless of today’s cold, grey weather. Unfortunately, I didn’t look more [...]

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Camera Querry

For the person who ended up here on my site after looking for camera shop utrecht, I can’t help too much with the bigger fancier stores, but there’s a lovely little one on Lange Jufferstraat, near Café de Stad. It’s got some lovely old cameras on display in the window, along with various odds and [...]

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Rants and Raves

That, my friends, is a picture of Orlando sitting atop one of the apples growing on the apple tree on our back terrace. The picture was taken a couple of months ago, but the apples are finally ripe and ready to eat. In fact, one is baking right now in the form of a simple [...]

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Acht Jaar

Today marks eight years of samenwonen bliss for G and me. Well, we weren’t officially living together, but after a bit more than a month of dating and getting to know each other, we sort of made it official on this date. Eight years later, I couldn’t be happier.
To celebrate, we decided to grill some [...]

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Dag Twee

The second in the series of posts of the quick notes I took during the first few days here.

First of many trips to IKEA. Bought a gele bank (yellow sofa).
Tried to take the tram, but there was geen (no) service. Took the bus instead, but unfortunately took the wrong bus. Fortunately we figured this out [...]

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Paint and Pumpkins

There I was today, all ready to go to Pippos to buy some paint to finish up a project I’m working on in the bedroom. All I had to do was take Pippo out first. As we were walking around, I couldn’t help but notice how quiet it was, despite being almost 10 a.m. Surprisingly [...]

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Closing Time

Big excitement today!
We found out that the Albert Heijn on Nachtegaalstraat is now open on Sundays from 4 to 9 p.m.! Voorstraat is still closed on Sundays, but it’s nice to know we have an option. Just in case.
Ah, living the wild life.

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Bald Birdies

People always ask me if I’ve had a hard time adjusting to the Netherlands, but I really haven’t. It’s been surprisingly smooth and easy, with no major culture shock. Day to day life hasn’t seemed drastically different, just mildly different. In fact, it’s really the little things that I notice, rather than anything massive. (Outside [...]

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