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Monthly Archives: August 2010

London on a carefree Monday

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Catch me on live radio tonight!

This is a last-minute announcement I’m going to be interviewed – live – by Nick Evetts in his Event Horizon show for Astronomy FM, airing tonight at 19.00GMT. This is 21.00h in the Netherlands, and I understood it’s 15.00h in New York, where Nick is.   You can have Nick asking me your questions, by [...]

Take Two

In my experience, usually one shoot per magazine is enough. However, apparently sometimes the editors have something different in mind than the photographer and you (the model) will be kindly asked to show up again.   Remember I wrote about ‘take two’  for which I climbed up the roof of science centre eXplorion in Heerlen? [...]