Wow, yeah, so I'm not doing such a great job of blogging lately, my apologies! But februari was heel druk (very busy).... and yes, I now write in a strange mixture of Engels-Dutch - you should see my emails to Dutch people (besides, some Dutch words just look better than English ones... for example "appel" "wafel" "appartement" etc, my spelling in English is certainly going downhill!
So, my excuse for the lack of blogging activity is the fact that during februari I was actually only at home for about 9days in the whole month... I spent the first week with the nuns on my intensive Dutch language training course, then it was my birthday and I spent a long weekend in Maastricht with Rich (it was their "mardi gras" carnival... ik was een kikker) and the last week of feb I was away at a conference in Zurich. Zurich is beautiful but you certainly pay for the experience, around £7 for a cup of coffee and the conference meal (3 (tiny, tiny) courses) cost £70!! I wasn't even full afterwards! So I'm glad I got to see it on a work trip as I definitely wouldn't go back for a holiday, not when lunch prices are like evening meal prices!
A really busy but interesting month!
Here are some pics of the crazy carnival:
Unfortunately I have no pictures of Zurich as my camera was stolen on my last day :-( Terrible timing as two days later I managed to explode the back tyre of my mountain bike, so it's been an expensive couple of weeks.
Well, the problem is that work trips go hand in hand with free food, free alcohol and no exercise so I'm feeling pretty unhealthy right now. I thought I'd give up alcohol for lent but then I realised that St. Patrick's day is in the way and that would be a great shame! Also, in an attempt to make up for the lack of sport and too much eating, I set my alarm 45min early every day last week planning on going for a 30min run before work each day, however, each time the alarm went off I just switched it off and went back to sleep again... this week I didn't even bother!
I did have a sporty weekend tho, Sat I went for a 2 and a half hour cycle ride (I cycled to the Hague, ate dim sum and cycled back again!) and Sunday I got my ass kicked in a squash tournament!
Until next time....
Woops, pics missing temporarily, but will be up soon!!
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