Cuzco – the imperial city of the Incas. Cute town. The city revolves around the main square, Plaza de Armas, around which the Cathedral and the Church of the Company (meaning the Society of Jesus) stand. The stone of their ornate construction is brown and in the dry season (which we are in) makes them …
Category Archive: General
Aug
10
Aug
08
First Impressions of Peru
Ann and I are sitting in a (stinky, according to Ann) Internet cafe in Cuzco. We flew into Lima last night, only got to see a little of the city since it was 11:00pm by the time we got to our hotel. The guidebook said that Lima isn´t the most beautiful city, and they were right, …
Jun
29
Welcome Heyer Twins!
I just got the good news on the IM from my friend Dan Heyer: he and his wife Chizuko just had two healthy baby girls today. The world welcomes Alicia ( 1MB) and Brandi ( 1MB) Heyer. Very pleased to meet you. I hope you will one day look at this post and say, “my …
May
29
Back in the Matrix
Yay! Home internet connection is restored! I had to stare quizzically at the “Do It Yourself” home installation guide from my new internet provider for a bit, since it is all in Dutch, but eventually I got it all working. They sent me a box with a bunch of cables and a modem and a …
Mar
31
Just(y) a Piece of Crap
I would have been better off leasing a Lexus. I took my Justy to the mechanic this morning because a week ago it started acting weird. Jerking, making bad grinding and screeching noises, revving the engine when I took my foot off the brake, stuff like that. Of course, I didn’t know if the mechanic …
Mar
07
Rome – St Peter’s Basilica
I think it’s the biggest church I’ve ever been in. It’s sheer grandeur dwarfs every cathedral I’ve seen in the rest of Europe. A huge covered space, with vaulted ceilings () so high they remain in constant semi-darkness. Already from the outside you get an idea of the scale of the basilica from the size …
Mar
07
Rome – Strangers in Line
We’re standing in line to get into St. Peter’s basilica. It’s our first day in Rome and it’s mid-afternoon. Sadly, the day is grey and overcast. I take the camera and snap a few shots of the square and the front of the basilica. I get a nice one of the rows of empty chairs …
Mar
05
Rome – First Impressions
Ann keeps telling me that no one reads my posts because they are too long, so I am going to chop them up into little digests as an experiment, and I’m going to start with our arrival in Rome. Fiumicino airport is average, as airports go. It isn’t an architectural wonder, but it isn’t dysfunctional …
Feb
27
Travel Blog
Hi everyone, As I have admin rights to this weblog, I am shamelessly going to use them to bring you the following newsflash: as an example of a modern independent woman I have created my own travel blog. So go check it out at http://thetravelingbelgian.blogspot.com Happy reading! PS: next weekend we’ll be in Rome and on March …
Feb
23
Free Speech, Cartoons, and the Holocaust
xcnl > en I recently had an exchange with my good friend Ian that I think is worth mentioning. It had to do with the fact that recently a court in Austria put a guy in jail for three years for denying the Holocaust. This seemed at first glance to smack of hypocrisy, given the …