Category Archives: All over the place

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Honey cake

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Why do people, when I say I’ll be baking a cake, directly assume it will be a space-cake… I’m not making a space-cake this time. This time I’ll be baking a honey-cake! Based on a traditional Czech recipe. :-p

Tomorrow or this weekend I’ll give my culinary abilities a nice test. I already got all the ingredients and all the equipment. All I need to do is make the connections and hopefully a delicious cake will be the result. With this cake I should probably invite my parents and brother to come by and visit, so that all future criticism about lacking cookies will be ended. 😉

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Home again

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Metro station Chodov!I’m home again and I’m pretty tired. According to the Czech people beer can be compared to a kind of liquid bread. If this is really the case then the last week I have drank quite a large amount of bread.

Breakfast in the Czech republic was normally a sandwich with a beer and a shot of liquor. Sometimes breakfast was just some liquor made from berries, mixed with hot water. Afterwards the touristic part of the day started. My guide Zuza showed me various parts of the beautiful Prague. We started out viewing big parts of the city during the day and visiting a lot of bars during the evening. As the week progressed the time we spend in bars drinking and eating also increased quite a lot.

The result was a very nice week. Prague is a great city that I will have to visit again soon 🙂

Hey Babaribariba

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Carnival in Prague!!!Carnival is a party that needs to be celebrated, and it needs to be celebrated good! In Prague they celebrate carnival really good.

I just went to some awesome club, Palaca Acropolis in the Zizkov neighborhood (of course in Prague), and the stage in this club was full of people partying.

They celebrated carnival with close to all musical instruments you can think of, and the result was very nice. It resembled a combination of the Blues Brothers and Vive la Fete, with the only difference that the music was played a lot faster : -p

Prague

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Prague!Since a few days I’m home again after a very tiring but very enjoyable snowboard vacation. Tomorrow I head over to Prague, to visit Eliska and Zuza 🙂

I had planned to go by train, but the costs are higher then the airplane, and it needs to be arranged weeks in advance. Going by plane is a lot of hassle booking everything last minute, so I think I’ll try my luck and go by car.

I am very curious… after some research I found out Prague is a beautiful historic city and I’ll be visiting the perfect guide that live in the middle of it all. Still I’m going to buy a tourist guide, together with a bottle of berry brandy and a packet of cookies to be well prepared. 😉

Wengen

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I’m home again 🙂

And I am truly exhausted after a fantastic vacation. One full week of snowboard classes with board professor Andrea. All the muscles in my body are in pain. I ripped my pants and broke my supposedly unbreakable goggles while falling really hard on the back of my head. I was called a lazy side-slipper by the professor and all the green-team members were feared (in a good way) in the hotel.

Maybe tomorrow I’ll post some additional pictures (if they pass the censorship). Now first to get some sleep.

Wengen, Switzerland

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Snowboarding!!!In a moment I’ll be heading towards Limburg (or some place near) for a cozy sleepover and afterwards I’ll be (studying) snowboarden for a week in Wengen in Switzerland. This year we have the biggest IP04 group ever. I think we’ll be a 10-person group :-), ammer, baraba, beast, em, emjee, fuzzy, herman, red devil, skiwi and me, so that promises to be a great adventure.

This year I’m going to be snowboarding the entire week (with classes of course), so for sure I will have to endure pain, extreme cold, plenty of ‘bollost”!, rolling soaking wet in the fresh snow, falling a lot, apre-ski-ing even more, trying to ignore the pain and have extreme fun!

This year I go equipped with some strong caffeine pills and I sneakily brought some toe-warmers I tested a while ago so I can spend at least one day in the snow with warm feet. I hope no-one will notice because fur sure I’ll be the laughing stock of the group if anyone sees me with my toe-warmer.

See you in a week!

Prague

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Becherovka!Just said my goodbyes to Zuzana. Today we went to visit Madurodam once again, and I learned that Escher was in fact a Dutch guy, we visited de pier and ate a nice herring sandwich. It was a very nice week, and Zuza told me I absolutely had to visit her in Prague before going back to work. In fact she told me I was welcome to visit as much as I wanted, and I would not even mind visiting her a few times.

I discovered I have a deep respect for the Czech way of life.Every day around one Zuzana proposed to start drinking some beer, quickly moving onwards to stronger liquors. After I told her I did not like becherovka, I was told I just licked it, and should drink some more. Strange, because I distinctly noted my throat burning. I got the advice to practice a lot more drinking beer and alcohol to be prepared to visit Prague.

Den Haag

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Er zijn een aantal ingrediënten nodig voor een bijzonder goeie dag. Goed gezelschap, een bezoek aan een museum, plenty plenty bier, goldstrike, becherovka en als afsluiter van de avond een bezoek aan de paap alwaar een of andere vage band optreed met een zanger annex gitarist die extreem zeker is van zichzelf. Deze zekerheid wordt aangetoond doordat de zanger/gitarist stukken gitaar speelt terwijl ie op de grond ligt. Hij speelt stukken gitaar met de gitaar op zijn rug, hij speelt met een brandende peuk tussen de snaren en noem maar op 😀