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wet air
OMG! Tammy! You have no idea what humidity is. I’ve been to some places where it is so humid you can’t even breathe. The mildness of the Dutch summer is like dry desert air compared to everywhere else.
Hahahahaha. I am a bad man.
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countries I have visited
I was just thinking about this and decided that I should write it down, in case I someday forget. In order of first visit:
- Australia
- Papua New Guinea
- Antarctica (not a country, and it was a 1 day tour in a 747, it was AWESOME)
- New Zealand
- Malaysia
- Singapore
- The Netherlands
- Turkey
- United Kindom (England)
- Germany
- Switzerland
- Italy
- United Kingdom (Wales)
- China (Hong Kong)
- Thailand
- France
- Belgium
- Luxemburg
- Fiji (added October 2006)
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pwned
From Breigh’s 25 Things That Make Me Want To Kill You list:
18. Secrets… I hate secrets I don’t know about. Especially if people act like pricks about it and let you know there is a secret you don’t know. For christs sake, if you’re not going to tell me the secret than don’t tell me it exists, you jackass.
This is referring to me, last week I took a while to tell her my deepest darkest secret and she went mental with anticipation. So tonight…
- darryn says (7:53 PM):
shit 18 is about me
Breigh says (7:54 PM):
ahaa
- darryn says (7:55 PM):
btw i have another secret
Breigh says (7:56 PM):
oh shut up
- darryn says (7:56 PM):
ok, well if you don’t want to know…
Breigh says (7:56 PM):
ok tell me
- darryn says (7:56 PM):
brb
Breigh says (7:56 PM):
god I’m such a sucker
Breigh says (7:57 PM):
omfg .. die!
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New Europe photos up
Last night I uploaded some photos from last month’s Europe trip. Some might seem familiar as Mel and Jem STOLE some of my IP and put them on their own blog. I mentioned this to Adam and his theory is that since their website is hosted on my server, technically it is me that is stealing my own IP.
Below is an example photo from the night of Koninginnedag. At the time, fuelled by Dutch beer and chocolate, we thought it was the Ultimate Party Photo. In the cruel light of day, however, the photo seemed slightly less ultimate.
John is modelling my patriotic orange beads, which I bought from a lady’s neck on Koninginnedag last year. I like Koninginnedag in Amsterdam, although Amsterdammers typically leave the city for that weekend. I think I will have to make it an annual pilgrimage.
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Multipass
My flatmate Sonia has been emailing me photos of Milla all day, possibly because we watched You Stupid Man recently (a good movie, and Milla did very well). I responded with a photo of Leeloo, and this got me thinking. After reading Hamish’s blog the other day, I have compiled a list of my favourite 5 movies of all time 5 movies I really like and have watched a lot.
- The Fifth Element
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
- Donnie Darko
- Dazed and Confused
Yep. Two with Milla.
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Home, yet homesick
I was just watching a tiny spider crawling across my pillow and I thought to myself “meh, in Australia our spiders are heaps bigger than that”. Then I remembered that I am in Australia now. It doesn’t seem real.
I still say alsjeblieft when I pay for things, but now it is kinda under my breath. It makes me a bit sad to think that I won’t be back in Holland for some time, and then probably for only a few weeks. There are a lot of things I miss, I guess the non-human part of gezelligheid is so obviously missing here. I wish there were terrasjes for me to sit and enjoy the beautiful 21
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amsterdam - koninginnedag
I am in Amsterdam at the moment, tonight is my last night. We had a massive day yesterday for koninginnedag and we are all feeling a bit weak today. Lots of photos were taken and will be uploaded when I return to Australia.
I will post in more detail when I get a chance.
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quick update
pasted from an email:
arrived in Paris, met Adam and Bits and had a lunch of “salade au foie”, foie meaning liver (i guess). Within 12 hours I experienced all the classic signs of food poisoning and was confined to my room for the next day. I will never eat liver again, just the thought makes me feel ill. Not a good start, but the next day Mel and Jem arrived, and Jem’s friend Jared. We went and saw the Eiffel tower, the Louvre, Arc de Triomphe, all that tourist stuff. Paris was OK, and I have a few good memories, but it wasn’t as beautiful as I expected. Also, I felt sick :P. It turns out that I remember more French than I thought and was able to communicate basically.
We rented a car and drove to the city of Lille where we stayed the night in a typically french hotel above a cafe. Lille is a nice city. The next day we drove to Belgium and stayed in the city of Brugge (Bruges) which is a cool medieval city. We found a great hotel and I shared a room with Mel, Jem and Jared which was comfortable and directly overlooked a canal. We enjoyed the Belgian chocolates and beers and browsed some of the local shops before heading out (today) to go to [we didn't know? north?]
We drove to Antwerpe (in Belgium) but it didn’t look so good so we continued through the country and eventually crossed the border into Holland. It was getting late so we went to Dordrecht to find a hotel - the entire city was fully booked, so we went to Rotterdam. Rotterdam was full, they checked the surrounding cities - everything full. I called ahead to Den Haag - full. We decided to go on to Amsterdam and stopped at every hotel along the way (they were full). AT the Hilton Amsterdam Airport they called around for me (as the only Dutch speaker, I did all of this) and found 2 rooms at the Novotel that would hold us - for AUD$500 each. I gulped and made the reservations - it was 10:30pm at this point and 12C outside. None of us were happy at this massive budget buster but then I had an idea - thanks to my trusty black book I still had the number for the hostel where I stayed in November, and they had 6 beds! we are spolit between 3 dorms but it is only 23 euros each and tomorrow we move into our apartment.
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