Last week Nina and I had our holiday in the southern part of France, in a (little) harbourvillage nearby Marseille. We had very nice weather, around 20 to 23 degrees Celcius and just one day with rain. We are used to intensive holidays, wanting to do as much as possible within a short timeframe. This [...]
13Oct08
Holiday in France
Besides celebrating my birthday last Saturday I also visited saw windmill De Ster in Utrecht together with my brother and his wife and children. It was a so called Monumentendag (European Heritage Day), which means that a lot of monuments are open to the public. De Ster is the only original saw windmill in The [...]
10Aug08
Qin Shi Huang’s Terracotta Army
Already somewhere before the summer started I saw a promotion for the exposition of the terracotta army in Assen. I read more about the army on the internet on Wikipedia and really wanted to see this exposition myself in real life. Because we also wanted to have a short holiday, we decided to go for [...]
29Jul08
Colleague Tunahan leaving
In January this year I was introduced to my new colleague Tunahan who was two days a week working on identifying metabolomics networks by building models on his computer – won’t bother the readers with further details about that. The only colleague till now who wanted to go outside for a walk. And I think [...]