Coping with public and private transport since 2001
This kind of sums up the last week. I asked my supervisors at the university to accept the semi-final version to be the final version, for me to hand the thesis in officially and to finally graduate. It now is over a week since I received any communication from my first supervisor, so I’m getting anxious. Trust me, I’ve tried
Continue readingWhat a little bit of snow can do to mobility. 888 kilometres of queue on our highways, no trains going in or out of Rotterdam and to make matters worse: the snow did not even stay long. It melted almost directly after it touched the ground. No fun ánd all the hassle. Whoever thought the issues concerning mobiility and specifically
Continue readingYes, it does say murder. Our nation has been renowned for it’s mussels for ages, as ‘Zeeuwse Mosselen’ are world famous for their taste and fat. Dutch mussels differ from all other mussels as they are treated well in every stage of their life, to benefit both the fishers and consumers and the mussels. Nowadays, all production involving livestock has
Continue readingIt’s Easter, so here’s a bunny for you. 🙂
Continue readingInheritance tax probably is the most disliked and misunderstood form of taxation our country has. Whenever a departed dear one grants a part of their ‘fortune’ to you, you’ll have to pay taxes for receiving it, even when you have not yet received it (for instance, when your mom still lives in the parental house when your dad passed away).
Continue readingIf you want to buy a house, you’ll have to have an income of some sort. My income at Ordina is not bad at all for an intern, yet it is far from enough to pursuade the bank to lend me the sack of money needed to buy our house. Therefore, I’ve decided to take up the offer graciously made
Continue readingAs of last Friday, we now own a house. The next few weeks will be frantic due to the fuss surrounding financing a house, finding furniture and all meetings with real estate brokers and the notary. I’m really glad to have bought the house, and am really looking forward to moving in, after redecorating and all the mentioned fuss above.
Continue readingAs of today, your most favorited blogger is back. I went AWOL last week, to rest a bit and generally do a whole lot of nothing. So I did, and today I returned to the daily business of travelling to and from Nieuwegein. I’m really nearing completion of the thesis, so I’ll be posting updates soon!
Continue readingAbout 40% of my visitors (and not including me) to my blog agree: FireFox is better to browse. At least, it is used in 40% of the times people read here. This leaves 60% of the readers using Internet Explorer (IE), where about a quarter is using ‘ye olde’ IE6 and more than half the amount of the IE-users is
Continue readingThere is a point in your life, when you and your partner decide you want to be together each and every day of the week, or at least as many days of the week as possible. This decision often is referred to as ‘living together’, which is the decision Kirsten and I made a little while ago. Yesterday we went
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