September 09, 2017
Some highlights of Den Haag, so far
It’s hard to believe, but I’ve already been in Den Haag for almost three weeks. Yes, it’s called “The Hague,” in English, but the Dutch “Den Haag” sounds so much nicer to me and is obviously what people call it here, so I try to call it that, too…
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August 25, 2017
Amsterdam and Delft
I’m extremely grateful to be able to live in the Netherlands for almost a year, in part because it gives me the chance to travel to Dutch cities in a way other than the go-all-day-long-and-take-it-all-in mode I am used to when traveling. I was able…
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August 23, 2017
Rotterdam
I didn’t know what to expect from the city of Rotterdam. I knew that a friend of a friend had studied in university there, and I knew that a classmate of mine had gone with parents and felt like there wasn’t much to do. However, I took the chance to…
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July 05, 2017
Montreal 😻 🇨🇦
About a week before the July 4th holiday weekend, Celeste (my girlfriend) and I were discussing last-minute travel plans. We looked at airbnb listings up along the Hudson river. A calming vacation into the less-urban, hilly areas north of NYC was…
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