posted by darryn filed under personal
My Mum has come to visit me for Christmas, she has been here nine days and is returning to Australia tomorrow. We have had a great time together as I showed her my city and some of the surroundings.
Today we went to Den Haag to see the Vermeers and Rembrandts at the Mauritshuis. Afterwards we stopped to have a light
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I don’t care what you say, TOOL made the best music ever.
Stephen, I dedicate this post to you. Thanks for introducing me.
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posted by darryn filed under personal
On Saturday night, as normal, I went out to meet new people. I went to the usual places on Marnixstraat and had a few good conversations. At about 00:30 I decided to go and check out Pianobar, a piano bar in the restaurant area near Leidseplein. I was briefly there the week before but I wasn’t paying much attention to
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This news is almost 2 weeks old, but I just realised that I haven’t told you. I am now officially a resident of The Netherlands, with permission to work and love the colour orange. I now have an identity card and everything.
Everyone who lives in NL has to register with the government at every address they live, whenever they live
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On Friday I went to the local branch of ABN Amro (a bank) to open an account. It was 16:30 and almost empty, with plenty of idle employees. There were 2 people at the reception area and I spoke to one of them, a man. I explained the situation: I want to open an account just so that I can
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Last night we had a traditional St Nicholas wine and cookie baking party. It sounds kind of weird but it was a lot of fun and in a room full of designers, my patriotic Amsterdam cookie was judged the best. Photos here.
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I have been living in my new home on Keizersgracht for 3 nights now and every day I am getting more happy with the place. My three flatmates are all friendly professionals and we get along well. In the photo on the right you can see that my house (the one on the right) has a "neck" gable, which most
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posted by darryn filed under personal
I now live on Keizersgracht, southeast of Leidsestraat. I am extremely happy and excited. It is considered impossible to get an apartment on a canal, I have been repeatedly advised to not even try. I have achieved the impossible. This is beyond awesome!
I have to give full credit to Breigh, who found the ad for me on marktplaats.
Told you it
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posted by darryn filed under personal
Last night, as every night here, I decided to go out. I walked up to Leidseplein and had a nourishing dinner of a brootje kroket from FEBO and caught the #5 tram into de Dam. I walked through Warmoestraat and got some 5th Gear for later and then went over to Nieuwmarkt, which has changed a lot since summer with
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I forgot to say - on Friday night I went into the Bulldog, on the grounds that I can’t mock a place without having been there. Now I can.
I went to the “nightclub” Bulldog on Leidseplein, not any of the coffeeshops. It was a total sausage fest, the ten or so women in the club of 300 were circled by
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