Time flies. It always has and it always will, I think. And I think this often. But after spending a wonderful weekend in London, my weekend wasn’t over yet. I had planned to visit the radio studios of the BBC World Service in the centre of this lively city and while I’d still have some [...]
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Aug
17
2010
London on a joyful Sunday
Sunday morning I woke up early at Geoff’s and so did Geoff. We had left messages on Twitter saying we’re looking forward to the picnic in Greenwich and headed for the Marks & Spencer. I love English supermarkets, even though I can’t pay with Euros. I bought strawberries – which Tom and I had missed [...]
Aug
17
2010
London on a beautiful Saturday
Whenever I go to London, though that almost feels like visiting neighbours (OK – of a rather long street), I always try to make most of my stay. (Like I always try to make most of things.) I succeeded again two weeks ago. The annual Royal Astronomical Society picnic was planned on the first Sunday [...]
Aug
04
2010
Lecturing again
While the Summer holidays are officially here and I’m not even thinking of teaching much at the moment, my other “job” still continues. The Voorwerp-related one.
Recently two of my friends mentioned how remarkable it is that I also still find time to do ‘all of these other things’, while I didn’t think it would come [...]
Apr
20
2010
I found NEMO again
Here’s a quick note of how fun the museum weekend was again.
The Dutch Railway website had warned me for delays, but there weren’t any. The train took me from station Heerlen directly to Amsterdam Central in the planned two and a half hours. And though I did this trip last year, knowing me I’d printed [...]