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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
Another baby was born in New Jersey. Congratulations to our friends Ryan and Amy, proud parents of Natalie Ava Warren. She is soo cute and small. Smaller than me! 😉 I am looking forward to babysitting her. Her pictures can be found on flicker: http://www.flickr.com/photos/warrenpics
We had to change the name of the trip this year since two of the original guys from the previous ‘Annual Guys Snowboard Trip’ are not in attendance and now we have to be more gender-neutral since our friend Katy Stefanidou joined us from Munich. This year the snowboard trip Read more…