Google just released Street View for Amsterdam, meaning that you can virtually walk/drive around the city and have full 360˚ panoramas at Google Maps, just like you can in most major U.S. cities.
Back in August I caught these “Streetview Cars” driving around my neighborhood, and I actually posed with my absentee ballot. Alas, they [...]
Things are a bit in flux at the moment. I’m rearraging stuff so bear with me, but I promise to maintain my journal again soon.
So last night we decided that we’d go check out the local movie theater, called The Movies. We’ve heard that the Dutch moviegoing experiance isn’t wonderful, with comments like “it’s expensive”, “there’s talking during the movies”, “getting a seat means you have to push and shove”, etc.
We figured it’d be exactly like seeing a [...]
This post is not really related to study abroad. I’m just putting this up here in the hopes that someone who has a similar problem can find the answer.
So I finally got internet access (a neighbor was nice enough to let me install a wireless access point), but I found that I could not [...]
As someone who, up until now, has only dealt with American banks, I was somewhat excited about the prospect of a completely different banking experiance. Confusion is part of dealing with any new bank, especially in a new country, so I wasn’t expecting everything to be smooth sailing. What I got, though, was [...]
The unusually beautiful weather here was already starting to change, so we decided to go check out the nearby beach (and town) of Zaandvoort. Of course, it’s October here, and the beach is on the cold North Sea, so we weren’t expecting to surf and sunbathe.
Apparantly we arrived on race day. Well, “qualifying [...]