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style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left"&gt;View Larger Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[for some reason this map appears zoomed in at Mission Beach. please zoom out for a full view]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the central most important point: the wedding of my sister Hester with her Ozzie Daniel. &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.nl/greetcorstiaans/080808"&gt;Some preliminary pictures here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(at the moment in Sydney, packing our bags :( )&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-3678271712116269102?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/3678271712116269102/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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type='text'>A trip into the Flinder's Ranges</title><content type='html'>Last weekend Petra and I went into the Flinder's Ranges, about six hours drive north of Adelaide. We camped and hiked in a place called Wilpena Pound and saw loads of different plants and animals - was great! For pictures, click &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/marije/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/2688528085/" title="a red sunrise by Marije Jansen, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3265/2688528085_a55136b23b.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="a red sunrise" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our campsite at sunrise. I did not touch this picture, these colours are real. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/2690196825/" title="the gorge by Marije Jansen, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3140/2690196825_3c5dd9ac0c.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="the gorge" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Into a gorge, perhaps once a year a river. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/2689325792/" title="wedge-tail eagle by Marije Jansen, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3148/2689325792_f77639aa31.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="wedge-tail eagle" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A wedge-tail eagle.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-8459925571656465395?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/8459925571656465395/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=8459925571656465395&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/8459925571656465395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/8459925571656465395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2008/07/trip-into-flinders-ranges.html' title='A trip into the Flinder&apos;s Ranges'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3265/2688528085_a55136b23b_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-3417195061855004608</id><published>2008-07-07T02:18:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-07T02:31:19.837+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Bustling Adelaide</title><content type='html'>They say not much happens at Adelaide. Not much nightclubs, pretty boring and small really. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must say, I am not into nightclubs that much, and I wouldn't dare call a city with 1,500,000 people small. So I'm having a great time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last night, cycling home at around 23:30 on a Sunday, I did finally see what they are going on about. On the way through the city, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rundle_Street"&gt;Rundle Street&lt;/a&gt; (dubbed &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.australianexplorer.com/adelaide_rundle_street.htm"&gt;Adelaide's Cosmopolitan centre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) looked like this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/2644479624/" title="Adelaide at night by Marije Jansen, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3024/2644479624_a26e5ac27c.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Adelaide at night" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(those lights in the back are NOT head lights. They are street lights.)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-3417195061855004608?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/3417195061855004608/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=3417195061855004608&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/3417195061855004608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/3417195061855004608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2008/07/bustling-adelaide.html' title='Bustling Adelaide'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3024/2644479624_a26e5ac27c_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-3344039155581415666</id><published>2008-07-04T06:27:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-04T06:46:03.932+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ode to the Ozzies</title><content type='html'>Aaah finally back in a country where they serve you the right kind of coffee. They've got espresso machines everywhere, and will never serve you filter coffee, let alone instant. Whether it's in a climbing wall or café, beans are freshly ground on the spot and then you hear the satisfying espresso machine rattling. lovely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The more surprised I was then, to find 3/4 of the part of the supermarket devoted to coffee, to be instant. On the picture below you see the last tiny bit of the isle where the 'normal' coffee is sold. So does this mean that the Ozzies want to serve proper coffee to clients but don't care too much themselves at home? Perhaps most Ozzies that care a lot about coffee just don't buy it in the supermarket and those who don't, get instant. And very few people drink filter coffee. (See these are the things that keep me busy now, when I'm not thinking about my thesis ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/2635075407/" title="welcome to instant coffee land by Marije Jansen, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3051/2635075407_87f301d065.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="welcome to instant coffee land" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alright, on more typical Ozzie thing. The commercials are pretty bad. Well, maybe not bad in the sense of being extremely simple (and therefore reaching a larger audience perhaps) and straightforward, but they are really not a pleasure to watch. I tried to watch a bit of telly the other night, but got hugely annoyed by the overflow of uninteresting commercials. But then, the simplicity makes some of them pretty funny. I think the guy on the ad below is particularly ehm... straightforward.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/2635108067/" title="I just love this ad by Marije Jansen, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/2635108067_7fb9f58f43.jpg" width="500" height="264" alt="I just love this ad" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-3344039155581415666?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/3344039155581415666/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=3344039155581415666&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/3344039155581415666'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/3344039155581415666'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2008/07/ode-to-ozzies.html' title='Ode to the Ozzies'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3051/2635075407_87f301d065_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-5582753463681126709</id><published>2008-06-29T01:22:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-01T09:07:42.339+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Alarm call</title><content type='html'>This morning I woke up slightly annoyed at around 6.30, by what I initially thought was a car alarm. But then it was slightly changing tune, must be either a very odd car alarm or... a bird!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Calling of the Superb Lyrebird, thought by many to be our most accomplished vocalist, peaks in early winter. It is a wonderful mimic and its territorial call varies greatly with geographical region."&lt;br /&gt;Listen &lt;a href="http://www.birdsaustralia.com.au/images/stories/birds/lyrebirdterritorial.mp3"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grrr... "wonderful" was not quite what I called it this morning. But yeah, it sounded a lot like that! Turns out that Lyrebird is quite something. See this short (but famous!) clip of &lt;a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y"&gt;David Attenborough about the Lyrebird&lt;/a&gt;. The Ozzies are quite proud of the bird - it also features on the Australian 10 cent coin, and the 100 dollar note.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[EDIT: some knowledgable people told me it couldn't possibly have a been a Lyrebird. shame. :) Now I'm hunting for the true culprit!]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.birdsaustralia.com.au/birds/australian-bird-calls.html"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; are some more samples of bird calls, which I am surrounded by all the time. The first one is another bird the Ozzies love to use in touristy places - The Kookaburra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/2607004546/" title="the Kookaburra by Marije Jansen, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/2607004546_ae89949333_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="the Kookaburra" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The kookaburra&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-5582753463681126709?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/5582753463681126709/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=5582753463681126709&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/5582753463681126709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/5582753463681126709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2008/06/alarm-call.html' title='Alarm call'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/2607004546_ae89949333_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-2375308336216046721</id><published>2008-01-16T21:24:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-01-16T22:34:43.753Z</updated><title type='text'>New Year in a bothy</title><content type='html'>Anyone ever heard what a &lt;a href="http://www.mountainbothies.org.uk/?name=Info&amp;tab_id=1"&gt;bothy&lt;/a&gt; is? Well, it's &lt;a href="http://www.liathach.supanet.com/bothy.html"&gt;not much&lt;/a&gt;. It's four stone walls, some wood on the floor and some plastic on the roof (with a spade as your toilet-tool) in the highlands of Scotland, and you only go to it if you're prepared to go back to basics. And that's exactly what we wanted - for New Year's Eve!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jon.peirce/NewYearAtKinbreak/photo#5155058080650819330"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.google.com/jon.peirce/R4pyAv2y9wI/AAAAAAAABu0/DVeglP1OI5k/s400/DSC_0018.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the Kinbreak bothy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So of we went, with four friends (Jamie, James, Harriet and Andy) who all had more experience in this kind of adventure than we had. It takes a while to drive there, but you're rewarded with a spectacular piece of scenery on your way (especially in the Glen Coe area). We decided to hike to the bothy the same evening that we arrived, possibly based on some false calculations of one of us - we ended up moderately lost and exhausted, all carrying a minimum of 20 kilos on our backs (carrying coals, whiskey/port bottles, and lots and lots of food!), hiking uphill without a sign of a path. Oh, actually, with many signs of path but never actually finding one (how often did we hear each other say "oh, i think i've found it!", "guys this is definitely a path here!"). Fact is, it's hard to find you way in the dark, it was really only due to James's compass skills we didn't get completely lost. He just alerted us that we were following a strange direction - and were those two lights there other hikers coming towards us (are they moving at all?), or two lights at the border of the lake, where we just came from? Mmmm. And so we decided to camp right there on the spot (thank god we had our tents with us!). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jon.peirce/NewYearAtKinbreak/photo#5152027697755649522"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.google.com/jon.peirce/R3-t5P2y9fI/AAAAAAAABpc/dUILj-jnw0I/s400/0712%20029.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the improvised campsite&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the morning i couldn't wait for it to get light to see where we were. Excited (you could clearly see the path we were looking for all that time) but a bit disappointed too - we weren't nearly as high up as we had hoped! Fortunately the rest of the hike to the bothy was negligible, and we were all glad we had done a bit of the climb the previous night already. Once at the bothy we weren't too keen on more hiking for that day, especially since it gets dark at four pm. So we started drinking whiskey and cooking extravagantly - sure we're in a bothy, but that doesn't mean we should have a great new year's eve dinner! The couple we shared the bothy with that night could swear that it was the first time that a squash was being cut in a bothy. Ever. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jon.peirce/NewYearAtKinbreak/photo#5155058200909903682"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.google.com/jon.peirce/R4pyHv2y90I/AAAAAAAABvU/CPTTGMNBfKc/s400/DSC_0037.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;inside the bothy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New year's day we got up too late and with a bit too much headache to be arsed to climb up a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munro"&gt;Munro&lt;/a&gt;, so Harriet, Jon and I went up a little hill behind the bothy (the hard way - oops!). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jon.peirce/NewYearAtKinbreak/photo#5152028127252379330"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.google.com/jon.peirce/R3-uSP2y9sI/AAAAAAAABrI/BRGE7ID25ak/s400/0712%20061.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;view from the hill&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jon.peirce/NewYearAtKinbreak/photo#5152024064213316898"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.google.com/jon.peirce/R3-qlv2y9SI/AAAAAAAABnw/FvZ0w1wRu6k/s400/0712%20066.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;boggy lake at the top&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the 2nd of January we got up an hour before sunrise to make full use of those few hours of light to go up another Munro - to our surprise in clear skies! It was a fantastic piece of luck to be rewarded with such an overwhelming view of the highlands. That day we also saw some &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptarmigan"&gt;Ptarmigans&lt;/a&gt; (type of grouse that only lives at high altitudes, brown body in the summer turning white in the winter) and many deer. I was all excited, which was very typical for a beginner in the Scottish highlands, according to James. There are complete &lt;a href="http://www.deerstalkingscotland.co.uk/"&gt;stalking&lt;/a&gt; seasons to keep the number of deer down - they apparently are the ones to blame for the (current) lack of trees there. Only on the odd cliff a sapling has managed to grow to an awkward looking birch tree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jon.peirce/NewYearAtKinbreak/photo#5155058720600946802"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.google.com/jon.peirce/R4pyl_2y-HI/AAAAAAAABxw/nXFYnKc6buU/s400/DSC_0109.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;mesmerised on the Munro&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jon.peirce/NewYearAtKinbreak/photo#5155058746370750594"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.google.com/jon.peirce/R4pynf2y-II/AAAAAAAABx4/WKbEsJb5Lh8/s400/DSC_0111.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ptarmigans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not encountered any other person except from that new years eve in the bothy. So remote and beautiful! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jon.peirce/NewYearAtKinbreak"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to see an overview of the pictures in Picasa. If a picture appears small, just click on the 'zoom in' icon for more detail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a nice &lt;a href="http://belfagan.org.uk/poetry.htm"&gt;poem&lt;/a&gt; we found in the bothy (not very applicable to the weather we had, fortunately!):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jon.peirce/NewYearAtKinbreak/photo#5155058862334867650"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.google.com/jon.peirce/R4pyuP2y-MI/AAAAAAAAByY/Ds-Q5uuuAaQ/s800/DSC_0120.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-2375308336216046721?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/2375308336216046721/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=2375308336216046721&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/2375308336216046721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/2375308336216046721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-year-in-bothy.html' title='New Year in a bothy'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-2627721050166511002</id><published>2007-11-16T14:57:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-12-20T09:45:11.512Z</updated><title type='text'>poor fishies...</title><content type='html'>I know we are feeling bad about all sorts of things concerning the environment, but at the moment my focus is mostly on the fish. It just seems kind of unfair - because we can't see them and have inadequate measures of finding out how many of them are actually still there in the sea, they've been given so much less attention than (just a grab) pandas, eliphants and leopards. Poaching is pictured as ruthless and they are villains, because they are doing something that is not allowed while the animals are endangered. But what about the fish? Have you ever wondered where the fish on your plate come from? Many of them from Africa, where European ships trawl the fish away under the noses of the locals who catch less and less fish with their tiny boats. But even in our own Europeans seas everything is going tits up concerning fish stocks. See &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfishing"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, for example. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Britain there is the &lt;a href="http://www.msc.org/"&gt;Marine Stewardship Council&lt;/a&gt; that monitors which fish are ok to eat and which not. They place a sticker on each package if it gets through their quality check. You can download a Dutch '&lt;a href="http://www.goedevis.nl/"&gt;viswijzer&lt;/a&gt;' too. And there are tons of websites with more information out there... just try google. So I doesn't mean we should stop eating fish altogether, after all there are still a bunch of them non-threatened. But I think we should be aware of what we eat, and spread the knowledge about this, while the media is focussing on things that are &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change"&gt;much more debated&lt;/a&gt; than overfishing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And just like on land, &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2007/nov/15/endangeredspecies?picture=331277589"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; are a few pictures of the big and beautiful that make most people gooey and upset if they actually diappear (maybe before you've noticed that tuna has also disappeared from your plate).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ooof... got that off my chest!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;/ edit: &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7100000/newsid_7102900/7102918.stm?bw=bb&amp;mp=rm&amp;asb=1&amp;news=1"&gt;here's a 3 minute-video&lt;/a&gt; on BBC news, showing how quotas designed to keep the prices up for the fishermen or protect fish stocks, are not effective.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;/ edit: talking about &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7152303.stm"&gt;tuna stocks&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-2627721050166511002?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/2627721050166511002/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=2627721050166511002&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/2627721050166511002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/2627721050166511002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/11/poor-fishies.html' title='poor fishies...'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-3399078665336321087</id><published>2007-11-03T18:46:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-11-03T19:09:26.685Z</updated><title type='text'>dress shopping (and a lot more) in Madrid</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/DressShoppingInMadrid/photo#5128662731009908418"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/RyyrlL6hXsI/AAAAAAAABgk/qBbugeJBcNI/s400/P1040520.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Few weeks ago I joined Bean and her parents Colin and Morag to Madrid for four days (!). Target: a unique wedding dress. Unfortunately, previous successful shopping experiences gave a false sense of ideal wedding-dress-shopping-city: the more shops we entered, the faster we came running out of them. Lots of nice clothing though, according to my wallet :). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fortunately, Madrid doesn't leave you bored and sad - it's a gorgeous city with so much to see (and eat and drink!). And if you're done with big cities, there's loads to do in the surroundings. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/DressShoppingInMadrid/photo#5128662915693502226"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/Ryyrv76hXxI/AAAAAAAABhQ/DM_5TAY03BA/s400/P1040540.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Colin sorted us out with a great bike trip that included a visit to a gigantic monastery/palace in El Escorial and a lunch on a picturesque patio in a nearby village. *sigh*  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/DressShoppingInMadrid/photo#5128663190571409282"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/Ryyr_76hX4I/AAAAAAAABiI/rZ0UAHdcAg8/s800/P1040585.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another day we took a train to Toledo, where the old Synagoges were beautifully simple in contrast to the typical over-decorated Catholic churches. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click on Bean for more pictures!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/DressShoppingInMadrid"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/Ryyr9L6hX2I/AAAAAAAABh4/3XXy5lg51UM/s400/P1040572.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(tip: click on 'slideshow' for a nicer view)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-3399078665336321087?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/3399078665336321087/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=3399078665336321087&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/3399078665336321087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/3399078665336321087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/11/dress-shopping-and-lot-more-in-madrid.html' title='dress shopping (and a lot more) in Madrid'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-5522515210625147209</id><published>2007-10-04T20:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-10-04T21:19:42.746+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Tywyn, Cadair Idris &amp; Wales</title><content type='html'>jaa hier ben ik weer... tis alweer een tijdje terug maar hier even wat fotootjes van ons Lab Retreat in Noord-Wales! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ieder jaar gaan we een weekendje weg met collega's. Het wordt altijd georganiseerd door 1 van de PhD studenten (AiO's) en door de baas betaald. Toen het lab nog in Montreal zat, gingen ze twee keer per jaar: in de zomer kano/kamperen en in de winter skieen en langlaufen. Sinds we hier in Nottingham zitten gaan we zo 1 keer per jaar, en in die tijd zijn we naar Schotland (&lt;a href="http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/10/ben-de-giftige.html"&gt;Ben Nevis&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/10/photos-from-lab-retreat-scotland.html"&gt;beklimmen&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href="http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/03/czechia.html"&gt;Tsjechie&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/03/pictures-czechia.html"&gt;langlaufen&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href="http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/10/photos-from-our-lab-retreat-in-le.html"&gt;Zuid-Frankrijk&lt;/a&gt; (heel mooi wandelen) geweest, en nu was het tijd voor iets dichterbij: Tywyn (spreek uit "Touwen"), in Wales. Het is altijd een aktief weekend: Tomas houd niet van lanterfanten. Dit keer hebben we het via een bedrijfje gedaan: &lt;a href="http://www.adventurecamps.co.uk/"&gt;Adventure Camps&lt;/a&gt;. Het wordt gerunt door seizoenswerker Sarah, die 's winters in de Alpen te vinden is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jon.peirce/BBCLabRetreatInWales/photo#5111822991102418898"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.google.com/jon.peirce/RvDX7UNVn9I/AAAAAAAABTY/wLFhv3dYmf4/s288/labRetreat2007%20017.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meet Sarah&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De eerste dag hebben we eerst een vlotten-bouwen-race gemaakt, waarna we werden beloond door heel mooi weer - tijd voor een BBQ op het strand met zonsondergang! Tot laat in de avond in t shirtje bij het vuur.. mmmm. Tis dus toch zomer :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jon.peirce/BBCLabRetreatInWales/photo#5111824730564173954"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.google.com/jon.peirce/RvDZgkNVoII/AAAAAAAABU8/ON2IYIIRJck/s288/labRetreat2007%20054.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jamila, Bean en Luke&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De volgende dag was het weer wederom stralend mooi (maar we zijn toch in Wales?! waar is die regen nou?), dus hebben we ontzettend van de wandeling over de Cadair Idris genoten. Het is 1 van de mooiste wandelingen in de UK, en zeker in mooi weer. Cadair Idris betekend "Zetel van Idris", en denk je maar in dat dat een hele grote kerel was, die Idris. In de zetel ligt een kraakhelder, koud en heel diep meer, waaromheen een enorme rostwand omhoog gaat. Wauw. Er loopt een pad langs het meer en dan omhoog en over de rand van de 'zetel'. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jon.peirce/BBCLabRetreatInWales/photo#5117572819153677538"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.google.com/jon.peirce/RwVFXW3ZbOI/AAAAAAAABcg/HaitTFN7DaY/s400/pano.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bijna net zo mooi als de Tongariro Crossing in NZ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De laatste dag was het canyoning/gorge walking ook erg leuk - door een berg rivier naar beneden wandelen. De groep was heel gevarieerd in wie wat durfde, maar dit was echt voor iedereen geslaagd. Jammer genoeg hebben we daar nou weer geen foto's van! Zelfs de totaal onervaren zwemster (Jamila) sprong vanaf een waterval. Een beetje te vergelijken met wat we in Nieuw Zeeland hebben gedaan, het "Black Water Rafting", maar nu geen gloeiwormen op het plafond ;), en een beetje avontuurlijker.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jon.peirce/BBCLabRetreatInWales/photo#5111830537359958514"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.google.com/jon.peirce/RvDeykNVofI/AAAAAAAABYc/UP8I2NLUKWg/s288/labRetreat2007%20155.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En dan nog een beetje klimmen natuurlijk! Hier nemen we een alternatieve route, ietsje uitdagender dan waar het touw voor opgezet was (opscheppers ;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jon.peirce/BBCLabRetreatInWales/photo#5111825074161557666"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.google.com/jon.peirce/RvDZ0kNVoKI/AAAAAAAABVM/Xq3sCnX093k/s400/labRetreat2007%20058.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hier is de hele groep. Dit keer kwam niet iedereen van het lab, maar alleen de mensen die zin hadden om mee te gaan. Scheelt echt een hoop, de sfeer was geweldig, het hele weekend. Klik hier voor alle &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jon.peirce/BBCLabRetreatInWales"&gt;foto&lt;/a&gt;'s.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-5522515210625147209?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/5522515210625147209/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=5522515210625147209&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/5522515210625147209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/5522515210625147209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/10/tywyn-cadair-idris-wales.html' title='Tywyn, Cadair Idris &amp; Wales'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-1593803876523497156</id><published>2007-08-12T12:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-08-12T13:45:24.808+01:00</updated><title type='text'>good days in the Peaks</title><content type='html'>We took advantage of the nice weather these days, and head out to the peaks. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First a day of bouldering at the Roaches, a bit further away, but a beautiful spot to hang out, climb or boulder. The boulders are very friendly - starting at a low level - that's what we need! &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/BoulderingAtTheRoaches"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; for pictures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/BoulderingAtTheRoaches/photo#5097777702580418914"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/Rr7xz7I2eWI/AAAAAAAABLE/NV-6E5Iw9Ro/s400/CIMG0849.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second, a day hike on Bleaklow, just north of Kinder Scout. Free roaming on the moors is hard work, but the most deserted, barren land that in good light one would almost call beautiful. We encountered some curious objects on our way too: a plane wreck from the Fourties that just shows how tricky the moors are when covered in fog, and a reservoir the size of a garden pool in case of a fire (we reckon it might extinguish about 4 square metres of the acres of moors.. i guess every little bit helps!). Pictures &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/AHikeOnBleaklow"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/AHikeOnBleaklow/photo#5097769121235761234"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/Rr7qAbI2eFI/AAAAAAAABI4/G4G-TCF2iQQ/s400/Bleaklow%20040.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ps. check out Jon's beard :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/AHikeOnBleaklow/photo#5097769464833145042"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/Rr7qUbI2eNI/AAAAAAAABJ4/7PSbba3MAog/s400/Bleaklow%20062.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-1593803876523497156?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/1593803876523497156/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=1593803876523497156&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/1593803876523497156'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/1593803876523497156'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/08/good-days-in-peaks.html' title='good days in the Peaks'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-3941451197772554990</id><published>2007-08-07T16:53:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-08-08T13:16:48.367+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Can it be true?!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RriVkH2piaI/AAAAAAAAAas/3rmKhO6qW5U/s1600-h/weather.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RriVkH2piaI/AAAAAAAAAas/3rmKhO6qW5U/s400/weather.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095987426185808290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(would have been nice to be a wee bit warmer too though)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like the &lt;a href="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/em/em_forecast_weather.html"&gt;Met Office&lt;/a&gt; headline description:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Mainly dry with plenty of sunshine. Feeling pleasant."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-3941451197772554990?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/3941451197772554990/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=3941451197772554990&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/3941451197772554990'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/3941451197772554990'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/08/can-it-be-true.html' title='Can it be true?!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RriVkH2piaI/AAAAAAAAAas/3rmKhO6qW5U/s72-c/weather.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-6736609447282715103</id><published>2007-07-25T14:32:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-08-02T15:18:33.509+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Nottingham City Transport rant</title><content type='html'>Dear Sir, Madam,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am writing to you to complain about the bus service 53 that runs along the Ring Road in Nottingham. This morning was the second time that I walked towards the bus stop (the one just after the Futurist stop) being fifteen minutes early, and the bus drove past me. As a consequence, I had to wait 45 minutes for the next one to arrive. It was the bus that was supposed to arrive around 9.35, and had already left when I arrived at the busstop, which was at 9.22 (I verified my time with a pedestrian passing by). A similar thing happened to me very recently, around the same time of day. It is already not an ideal busline (doesn't run very often and stops at 18:00 in the evening, which makes it impossible to take everyday if you work late), but it is also unreliable. On top of this you have just raised the costs of traveling to £1.40. Very welcome news after having just waited for 45 minutes in wind and rain without bus-shelter!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am heavily disappointed in this. Since it is the only option on the ring road, many people are dependent on the line, especially the ones that have no other option. I do have another option and intend therefore not to use this bus-line anymore. Combined with the unfriendly service (not giving change, no good options for multiple-travel cards) it is one of the worst bus-services I have encountered so far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;(sent to Nottingham City Transport customer comments, 25-7-2007)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26-07-2007&lt;br /&gt;I discover that the other busline, called MedLink, is FREE and leaves a ten min. walk from our house. I am converted!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;31-07-2007&lt;br /&gt;NCT have replied to my email. They basically say they have spanked the driver, and that they might add some additional journeys from September onwards. They nicely avoid the other comments in the letter. oh well, I've made up my mind anyway.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-6736609447282715103?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/6736609447282715103/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=6736609447282715103&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/6736609447282715103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/6736609447282715103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/07/nottingham-city-transport-rant.html' title='Nottingham City Transport rant'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-1710007540397690670</id><published>2007-07-22T17:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-07-22T19:10:34.424+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Fietsen in Ierland</title><content type='html'>We're back!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/WeddingParty/photo#5090072868345801618"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/RqOSTi6a65I/AAAAAAAAA9M/85WE0qFOZSE/s288/100_2861.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;here's us leaving the wedding party in full regalia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Traveling by train and ferry was more comfortable than expected, though we only just got the connections. Never been so eager to find out where the elevator is on a platform! Another close one was in Dublin: we were given an hour to get from the ferry to the train (Heuston station). We never thought about this one - kind of assumed it would speak for itself. It doesn't. There are at opposite ends of the city, and there are no signs. A friendly stranger told us we had to follow the river, the train station would be at the 9th bridge on the left. Yikes! Right then the first big shower emerged from the clouds, just to add to the challenge. Welcome to Ireland! But we got it, five minutes before it was due to leave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/HoneymoonCyclingInIreland/photo#5090059682796201410"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/RqOGUC6a5cI/AAAAAAAAAxQ/1p1MA9w59DY/s288/P1030897.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;on the train from Dublin, after the first soaking&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's true what they say about the Irish west coast, by the way. It &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;does&lt;/span&gt; rain a lot ... though the locals all said how appalling this summer's weather is. It rained almost everyday, but only for about five or ten minutes. Two days were completely sunny and warm (on Inishmore, great timing!), and two other days were truly bad, especially because the rain was combined with strong winds. Yuk. And hail sucks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/HoneymoonCyclingInIreland/photo#5090060593329268834"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/RqOHJC6a6GI/AAAAAAAAA2k/WJcvqIV7Iss/s288/P1040067.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Jon's had enough&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Views were very rewarding though, as well as the company of other travelers we met on our way. Ireland's countryside and cliffs are breathtaking, even when it is not very sunny.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/HoneymoonCyclingInIreland/photo#5090059940494239346"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/RqOGjC6a5nI/AAAAAAAAAys/ozprv5H9RI0/s400/P1030945.JPG"   /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Gap of Dunloe, Killarney Nat. Park&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/HoneymoonCyclingInIreland/photo#5090060434415478770"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/RqOG_y6a5_I/AAAAAAAAA1s/LCBIWB1G39E/s400/P1040037.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Cliffs of Kilkee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/HoneymoonCyclingInIreland/photo#5090060799487699202"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/RqOHVC6a6QI/AAAAAAAAA30/XKK2IBkje4o/s400/P1040117.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;sitting at the edge of the cliffs at Dun Aengus, Inishmore&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And with approx. 400 miles of cycling on Irish ground we feel quite satisfied frankly :). It's not that much, but more than we had planned and still very very relaxing. And it's true what they say about the Irish too, they are an extremely friendly bunch!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;click on the map below for details on the route, and &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/HoneymoonCyclingInIreland"&gt;here for all the pictures&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=108303885695299022261.000001131f84524db98e0&amp;om=1&amp;ll=52.663058,-9.107666&amp;spn=2.798752,7.470703&amp;z=7"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/RqOL3y6a63I/AAAAAAAAA9A/g2Cg9o1DG0A/s288/honeymoon_route.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ps. a preview of the wedding party pictures can be found &lt;a href="http://basa.rajce.idnes.cz/Svatba_Marije+John/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/peirce.peter/MarijeJonNottinghamCelebration290607"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Please let me know if you have any too!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-1710007540397690670?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/1710007540397690670/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=1710007540397690670&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/1710007540397690670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/1710007540397690670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/07/fietsen-in-ierland.html' title='Fietsen in Ierland'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-5330599272250481655</id><published>2007-07-12T16:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-07-12T16:35:47.981+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Honeymoon Route</title><content type='html'>We just created a map in google where you can track &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=108303885695299022261.000001131f84524db98e0&amp;om=1&amp;ll=52.663058,-9.107666&amp;spn=2.798752,7.470703&amp;z=7"&gt;our honeymoon route&lt;/a&gt;. We haven't finished the map nor the trip yet, so stay tuned for changes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;groetjes uit een hostel ergens in een afgelegen plekje in Connemara, Ierland...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-5330599272250481655?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/5330599272250481655/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=5330599272250481655&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/5330599272250481655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/5330599272250481655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/07/honeymoon-route.html' title='The Honeymoon Route'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-4174729222031677104</id><published>2007-07-01T19:31:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-07-01T20:19:53.832+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Wedding Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jon.peirce/WeddingDay"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/Rof2q85ev_I/AAAAAAAAAZM/n601qoD0EGA/s400/427.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082301922273050610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Click on the picture&lt;/span&gt; for our selection of the 1000 wedding day pictures! With special thanks to our &lt;a href="http://www.eyeview.nl/reportage.html"&gt;photographer Frank Barnhoorn&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/attaboyluke/"&gt;Luke&lt;/a&gt; and Denis. We've narrowed them down to about 150 for you :). If you enjoy the pictures just a fraction as much as we enjoyed the day, you'll have a grand time! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay tuned in case we manage to get online during our honeymoon...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-4174729222031677104?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/4174729222031677104/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=4174729222031677104&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/4174729222031677104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/4174729222031677104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/07/wedding-day.html' title='The Wedding Day'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/Rof2q85ev_I/AAAAAAAAAZM/n601qoD0EGA/s72-c/427.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-4203535805287016192</id><published>2007-06-27T15:16:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-06-27T16:02:21.957+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Wedding Weekend</title><content type='html'>It was perfect!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know it sounds cliché ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wouldn't know any other words.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The actual wedding day pictures I will keep as a surprise for Friday, but &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/sets/72157600516158500/"&gt;here are some pictures of the days before and after&lt;/a&gt;, from the overnight ferry to the broodjes kroket :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;x&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-4203535805287016192?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/4203535805287016192/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=4203535805287016192&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/4203535805287016192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/4203535805287016192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/06/wedding-weekend.html' title='Wedding Weekend'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-4989184755335392270</id><published>2007-06-19T13:46:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T19:06:46.490+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The kidnapping!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;(if you can't be bothered to read all of this you can skip to the thank-yous and links to pictures below)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a Friday morning, a few weeks ago, I was starting to stress out about my coming presentation on Monday (why hasn't my supervisor emailed me or anything!??)... when Bean, Celine, Jen and Giulia were suddenly behind me, putting on a blindfold and handcuffs!! Oh dear..  I tried: "but my presentation...", Alas, there was no mercy...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uh oh O_o ... I thought the hen party was going to be another day!? I guess I can do my presentation over the weekend, should be ok... Hey this will be fun, with Bean, Celine, Jen and Giulia!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They took me in a rented car, and allowed me to see, because it was &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;me&lt;/span&gt; who would lead them to where-ever we were going. Soon I discovered the destination was the Peak District. Mmmm Bean knows I love that place, and there is loads to do... sounds like fun! Maybe we'll go canoing for a day? Some survival action maybe?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We arrive in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tideswell"&gt;Tideswell&lt;/a&gt;, probably a cute town but I can't see it - they've put the blindfold back on. Giulia and Celine are with me as I sit on a bench waiting for... waiting for what actually? Celine starts to bug me with a blade of grass out of boredom, when finally, they say, I am allowed to take of my blindfold. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/m4rije/HenWeekendJune2007/photo#5077741585910718418"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.google.com/image/m4rije/RnfDEcFv39I/AAAAAAAAAE4/HGLxo19XAG8/s400/IMG_4941.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By that time I've imagined we're near some field, maybe I'll see some sheep, maybe some... then the light is a bit blinding but I am sure I could just see Janneke... and my mum... and OH MY GOD THEY'RE ALL HERE!!!! and Anne, Aline, Shireen, Janneke and my mum have come flying over here for my Hen Party? No way! Woooow this is unbelievable! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/m4rije/HenWeekendJune2007/photo#5077741624565424098"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.google.com/image/m4rije/RnfDGsFv3-I/AAAAAAAAAFA/2Woof7LLzGk/s400/IMG_4942.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;There they are laughing at my surprised face, the meanies ;-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surely all this is not going to be just for a day?! Giulia let something slip in the car about the weekend - maybe we're all going to stay here for a weekend! I still don't get any more information but I'm too excited to care and have to hug everyone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/m4rije/HenWeekendJune2007/photo#5077741727644639234"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.google.com/image/m4rije/RnfDMsFv4AI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/NFapW0JCA_c/s400/HenWeekend%20003.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;me hugging my mum, one of the culprits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're calming down and have some lunch on the spot, in the middle of this indeed very cute village. Bit of a weird spot, and apparently it amuses some of the villagers as well, but we're having such a delicious lunch with the best girls in the world that we don't care :). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/m4rije/HenWeekendJune2007/photo#5077741916623200322"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.google.com/image/m4rije/RnfDXsFv4EI/AAAAAAAAAFw/BIZMwUkbMyQ/s400/HenWeekend%20007.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;lunch in the middle of Tideswell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently this spot was chosen carefully, because after half an hour a bus stops right next to us (not that I noticed), my friends grin at me while i wonder "uh oh.. do I get another blindfold now?", but oh I am so wrong again: it's KATJA AND FAY!!! coming all the way from Glasgow!! This is awesome... I have never met Fay yet, she's the cutest baby ever, and has the coolest mum ever, Katja! This is sooo exciting... can't believe that Bean has done all of this without me knowing! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/m4rije/HenWeekendJune2007/photo#5077742135666532514"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.google.com/image/m4rije/RnfDkcFv4KI/AAAAAAAAAGg/AAfpP8uqSL8/s400/HenWeekend%20013.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;I'll get you Celine!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I still don't know the plans at this point - it better be a more than one day thing now, Bean wouldn't be so cruel to send everyone back home after one day... Then we leave the village again by car, leaving Celine, Katja and Fay behind. But but... are they not coming? what's happening now, Bean, can we not do something where they could all join us too...? But i am shushed, and taken away to somewhere nearby to a farm. When I step out, i see a red car with a Dutch number plate. Oh that must be my mum's rented car, I thought. Ehmm... but wait a sec, that would have to be a British car then, you dumb ass, I think... That's the car of Ad, Maya's partner, and there is Maya too!! hurray, how cool that she's here with us too! We've done some nice hikes together recently in the Peaks now she lives in Manchester. Ad was only visiting her for a few weeks, and now she's leaving him for a weekend to be on my Hen Weekend?! This is nuts!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At &lt;a href="http://www.busheyheathfarm.co.uk/"&gt;the two barns&lt;/a&gt; that we're apparently renting for a weekend, we can calm down a bit and enjoy the beautiful and picturesque place. What a great find! The place is running on renewable energy where possible, and recycles everything. Showers are really luxurious for a holiday cottages, and the whole place a such a cozy (gezellig! :) feel to it, while being brand new. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/m4rije/HenWeekendJune2007/photo#5077742376184701186"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.google.com/image/m4rije/RnfDycFv4QI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/ZZsG02WFfDc/s400/IMG_4945.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;the hens outside the hen house&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And there were even Jay, Pat and Jo, to make the group complete (though I had accepted by now that my sister flying from New Zealand for a weekend was probably not one of the remaining surprises :( ). This is going to be fun!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it was.. the whole weekend was perfect, gezellig, we had excellent sunny weather (probably to make up for the fact that it going to rain on the wedding day), made a beautiful hike, evenings were full of more funny, embarrassing, and exciting presentations, presents and discussions, food was delicious, juggling has become my new anti-stress hobby (I can almost do it continuously Janneke!)... and and and .. aah *sigh*. Wish we could do it again next weekend :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/m4rije/HenWeekendJune2007/photo#5077745339712136706"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.google.com/image/m4rije/RnfGe8Fv5gI/AAAAAAAAARQ/6f5bL6NszVY/s400/HenWeekend%20052.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Jay joins the girls at the naughty bench&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/m4rije/HenWeekendJune2007/photo#5077742840041169362"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.google.com/image/m4rije/RnfENcFv4dI/AAAAAAAAAI4/KbFhfcCzQqs/s400/IMG_4957.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Janneke and Maya: guess the saying!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/m4rije/HenWeekendJune2007/photo#5077743574480577346"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.google.com/image/m4rije/RnfE4MFv40I/AAAAAAAAALw/WF4jNz8q9Tg/s400/IMG_4961.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Katja the kitchen-princess and supermum cooking pancakes!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ah.. and the presentation? - rescheduled to the next week :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks so much to all of you, Celine, Giulia, Jen, mama, Aline, Anne, Janneke, Shireen, Katja &amp; Fay (+ Rob for the card!), Maya (and Ad for driving her!!) Pat&amp;Jay, Jo, and Jon (for packing my bag without my help, for knowing so well what I need - all the women were jealous! ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the most of all the thanks go to BEAN, the incredible self-effacing and humble greatest organiser of the best parties of the world. ( &lt;- full stop, no exclamation mark, no high-pitched voice here, but a serious statement.) Don't know how you pull it off every time, Bean, you're such a bottom-less source of inspiration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/m4rije/HenWeekendJune2007/photo#5077743595955413842"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.google.com/image/m4rije/RnfE5cFv41I/AAAAAAAAAL4/Ib0h8_B6iOc/s800/IMG_4962.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Bean practicing with Fay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BIG KISS TO ALL OF YOU AND LOOKING FORWARD TO SEE YOU ALL BACK AT THE WEDDING!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;links to the pictures (let me know if you have more):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/m4rije/HenWeekendJune2007"&gt;Greet and Bean's pics&lt;/a&gt; (some videos there too)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zoto.com/phoz/albums/7605/"&gt;Janneke's pics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/Aline.deBorst/HenParty"&gt;Aline's snazzy black and white pics&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-4989184755335392270?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/4989184755335392270/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=4989184755335392270&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/4989184755335392270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/4989184755335392270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/06/kidnapping.html' title='The kidnapping!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-742990078529495186</id><published>2007-05-21T10:33:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-22T19:00:04.840+01:00</updated><title type='text'>the joy of transfers</title><content type='html'>Next time you have a choice of airport to transfer at have a look at this site. It lists &lt;a href="http://www.sleepinginairports.net/bestof.htm"&gt;the best and worst airports to sleep at&lt;/a&gt;. I have been at the top three, but have really only used number eight to sleep at. It's Incheon Airport, in Seoul, South Korea, where we waited for eight hours to transfer to New Zealand. After enquiring whether it would be possible to check out the city of Seoul, we decided not to take the risk and just roam free at the airport. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even inside the airport you've got to be prepared for a bit of a culture shock though. Quite a gender-biased society, so it seems. Already in the plane our Korean neighbour had to complement Jon on his "beautiful wife", before he started talking to me. O_o ... very polite, I guess? But then there were also more confusing moments. We, that is, &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;, asked at a helpdesk whether we could go outside without a visum, and they answered politely to &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Jon&lt;/span&gt; that we could. Wait, did I see that wrong? So I asked another question, and yes, they answered it again - to Jon. Mmmm how weird. So we walked around, when two cleaners dropped a mop. As it happened right next to me, and their hands seemed quite full already, I intuitively wanted to pick it up for them - but they seemed in a sudden hurry to snatch the mop, look at me as if they saw a ghost and run off. Oh. &lt;br /&gt;Obviously that futuristic, empty and extremely clean building &lt;a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Image:Incheon_Airport.JPG"&gt;the shape of a plane / whale&lt;/a&gt; desperately needed a mop :). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/378507808/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/378507808_d257f117b4.jpg" width="333" height="250" alt="Incheon Airport" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-742990078529495186?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/742990078529495186/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=742990078529495186&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/742990078529495186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/742990078529495186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/05/zzzzzzzzsleeping-at-airports.html' title='the joy of transfers'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/378507808_d257f117b4_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-1820301318654993126</id><published>2007-05-16T17:34:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-05-16T18:44:50.641+01:00</updated><title type='text'>You're english better then mine?</title><content type='html'>Have a look here, whether you're learning English or whether your native language is English. No actually, it's &lt;i&gt;compulsory&lt;/i&gt; to have a look if your native tongue is the one I'm still brushing up on. They are &lt;a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/53187/10-Grammar-Mistakes-That-Make-You-Look-Stupid"&gt;the 10 most annoying spelling mistakes&lt;/a&gt; to encounter (though not necessarily obstructing comprehension).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most look so obvious but are probably just due to phonetic similarity. Oh, the joys of the English language! Is there ANY other language out there that is less logical with spelling?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cartoon here is made by a &lt;a href="http://tejohaas.com"&gt;dutch guy&lt;/a&gt;. It just struck me because I doubted straight away about the spelling - yet couldn't confirm. Now we know once and for all: &lt;a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/53187/10-Grammar-Mistakes-That-Make-You-Look-Stupid"&gt;this is wrong&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/Rks7A0gm_4I/AAAAAAAAAEU/BTiEU9UnzOY/s1600-h/cartoon8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/Rks7A0gm_4I/AAAAAAAAAEU/BTiEU9UnzOY/s400/cartoon8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065207091189710722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(see &lt;a href="http://www.lahaye.ws/"&gt;this website&lt;/a&gt; for more of his cartoons related to climbing, without spelling mistakes :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-1820301318654993126?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/1820301318654993126/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=1820301318654993126&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/1820301318654993126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/1820301318654993126'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/05/youre-english-better-then-mine.html' title='You&apos;re english better then mine?'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/Rks7A0gm_4I/AAAAAAAAAEU/BTiEU9UnzOY/s72-c/cartoon8.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-8940215909401896482</id><published>2007-04-26T17:06:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-04-26T17:38:31.125+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Fontainebleau, je t'aime!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RjDT36_l0ZI/AAAAAAAAADc/HA4KArriCo0/s1600-h/fontainbleau+121.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RjDT36_l0ZI/AAAAAAAAADc/HA4KArriCo0/s200/fontainbleau+121.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057775339219308946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;oh la la...&lt;br /&gt;what a nice easter weekend we had in &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Font!&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Bleau&lt;/span&gt; for the continentals :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such an amazing sea of boulders, so varied, as if each on them has been well designed to be climbed in two different ways and descend on the other side. And there is some much to do, even for newbies like us! hurray!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(The Peak District here generally makes us feel like losers)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We camped for four nights at a lovely campsite full of Dutch climbers and French families, together with Jamie and Clare. The weather treated us very well, though a bit chilly at night...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/jon.peirce/Font2007"&gt;pictures here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-8940215909401896482?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/8940215909401896482/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=8940215909401896482&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/8940215909401896482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/8940215909401896482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/04/fontainebleau-je-taime.html' title='Fontainebleau, je t&apos;aime!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RjDT36_l0ZI/AAAAAAAAADc/HA4KArriCo0/s72-c/fontainbleau+121.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-2211322017552702705</id><published>2007-04-11T16:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-04-11T16:53:56.616+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Marike Jager (2)</title><content type='html'>I mentioned &lt;a href="http://www.marikejager.com/"&gt;Marike Jager&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/05/marike-jager.html"&gt;this blog&lt;/a&gt;  - had heard of her during my undergrad in Maastricht, mostly through my friend Anne, seen her live once in a while... she won a prestigious award in the Netherlands for singer/songwriters and soon after published her first cd. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That one soon became Jon's favourite cd of my whole collection :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... now she's got a &lt;a href="http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/34100744"&gt;live concert online&lt;/a&gt; to listen to, hurray!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-2211322017552702705?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/2211322017552702705/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=2211322017552702705&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/2211322017552702705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/2211322017552702705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/04/marike-jager-2.html' title='Marike Jager (2)'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-9175045995548008822</id><published>2007-04-02T16:13:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-04-02T16:26:51.960+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirsten's Kiddie Party</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RhEfaT70p1I/AAAAAAAAACY/3uJ2aATwqUs/s1600-h/KiddieParty.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RhEfaT70p1I/AAAAAAAAACY/3uJ2aATwqUs/s400/KiddieParty.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048851194147284818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our climbing buddy Kirsten (very first pic) absolutely refuses to grow up and therefore threw a Kiddie Costume Party this weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;try to spot Jon and me if you can... (it's tricky!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RhEfpT70p2I/AAAAAAAAACg/d93Mva2qiks/s1600-h/KiddieParty3.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RhEfpT70p2I/AAAAAAAAACg/d93Mva2qiks/s400/KiddieParty3.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048851451845322594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;always good times at costume parties: the late night costume swapping&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RhEe9D70p0I/AAAAAAAAACQ/42t02hmDap4/s1600-h/KiddieParty2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RhEe9D70p0I/AAAAAAAAACQ/42t02hmDap4/s400/KiddieParty2.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048850691636111170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-9175045995548008822?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/9175045995548008822/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=9175045995548008822&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/9175045995548008822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/9175045995548008822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/04/kirstens-kiddie-party.html' title='Kirsten&apos;s Kiddie Party'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RhEfaT70p1I/AAAAAAAAACY/3uJ2aATwqUs/s72-c/KiddieParty.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-6794692251192505923</id><published>2007-03-27T10:33:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-03-27T10:40:11.173+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ribena's blackcurrants without vit c</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2043450,00.html?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=1"&gt;The Guardian reports&lt;/a&gt; about two NZ girls of 14 who found out that actually, there's barely ANY vitamin c in Ribena's blackcurrant drink. Remember how they advertise that "90% of all British blackcurrants are in Ribena"? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ribena.co.uk/accessible/britains_blackcurrants/index.html#goodness"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; Ribena is boosting about the the goodness of blackcurrants. Well, apparently they squash out all the vitamins before putting it in their drinks. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nice to know that we don't need to be scientist to show some groundbreaking results. What are we doing here... let's get back to the good old high-school labs!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;from the &lt;a href="http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psychologynetwork.html"&gt;psych-postgrad list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-6794692251192505923?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/6794692251192505923/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=6794692251192505923&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/6794692251192505923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/6794692251192505923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/03/ribenas-blackcurrants-without-vit-c.html' title='Ribena&apos;s blackcurrants without vit c'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-9123193612352083682</id><published>2007-03-12T14:32:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-03-12T15:46:39.974Z</updated><title type='text'>beperkt houdbaar</title><content type='html'>Tijdens een van mijn vele afleidingen op t werk, kwam ik via de &lt;a href="http://bieslog.vpro.nl/programma/bieslog/index.jsp"&gt;Bieslog&lt;/a&gt; op de &lt;a href="http://www.beperkthoudbaar.info"&gt;Beperkt Houdbaar&lt;/a&gt; website terecht. Daar kun je de recentelijk uitgezonde documentatie bekijken van Sunny Bergman. Zij is een vrouw van 34 met man en kinderen, die net als iedere andere vrouw zich weleens zorgen maakt over haar uiterlijk. In het begin krijg je de indruk dat ze zich meer zorgen maakt over haar uiterlijk dan andere mensen, maar op een subtiele manier maakt ze duidelijk dat bijzonder veel mensen een slachtoffer kunnen worden van de schoonheidsindustrie. Het is niet een "daar gaan we weer"-verhaal, het is een hele effectieve en schokkende documentaire over wat ons te wachten staat, mocht die bui vanuit de VS komen overwaaien. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.beperkthoudbaar.info/docu/"&gt;kijk en huiver&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;(Beetje vervelende stem heeft ze wel, die Sunny Bergman. Wie weet kan ze daar ook iets aan doen in de toekomst? ;-) )&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-9123193612352083682?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/9123193612352083682/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=9123193612352083682&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/9123193612352083682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/9123193612352083682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/03/beperkt-houdbaar.html' title='beperkt houdbaar'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-2946002486643752401</id><published>2007-03-06T10:07:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-03-06T10:36:52.432Z</updated><title type='text'>... and the only creatures on the canals were ducks</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/26/world/26skating_1_600.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/26/world/26skating_1_600.jpg" alt="elfstedentocht" width="600" height="300"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been trying to make clear to other people how we Dutchies like our speed-skating. This 'liking' becomes a rather wild obsession and mass-hysteria at the rare times that the 'elfstedentocht' (&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/world/europe/26skating.html?ex=1173330000&amp;en=04fde891d3483731&amp;ei=5070"&gt;11-cities tour&lt;/a&gt;: 17,000 skaters through the canals in the northern province Friesland) takes place. Enough to thoroughly impress the writer of &lt;a href="http://carbonneutraljournal.com/wordpress/2007/03/04/much-ado-about-al/"&gt;this blog&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has been held 15 times since 1909, but due to climate changes it is now predicted to take place only 4 times in this century. And after that... who knows? Better start practicing your speed-skating skills &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming"&gt;now&lt;/a&gt; if you want to be able to compete in what will perhaps be the very last elfstedentocht?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-2946002486643752401?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/2946002486643752401/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=2946002486643752401&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/2946002486643752401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/2946002486643752401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/03/and-only-creatures-on-canals-were-ducks.html' title='... and the only creatures on the canals were ducks'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-8715252434608875002</id><published>2007-02-27T13:22:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-02-27T13:28:00.375Z</updated><title type='text'>hersenspinselen</title><content type='html'>De Volkskrant heeft een interessante website gemaakt, genaamd &lt;a href="http://extra.volkskrant.nl/betacanon/"&gt;bètacanon&lt;/a&gt;. Een aantal professoren zitten samen om basiskennis over allerlei onderwerpen op een leesbare manier op te schrijven, om vervolgens te worden gecorrigeerd door heel Nederland op een wiki-achtige manier. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vooral het artikel &lt;a href="http://extra.volkskrant.nl/betacanon/index.php?id=230"&gt;'het brein'&lt;/a&gt; is interessant: voor alle lezers die nou wel eens weten wat ik bestudeer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-8715252434608875002?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/8715252434608875002/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=8715252434608875002&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/8715252434608875002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/8715252434608875002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/02/hersenspinselen.html' title='hersenspinselen'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-4914596079814893759</id><published>2007-02-03T14:23:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-02-03T14:56:32.772Z</updated><title type='text'>New glasses</title><content type='html'>Today I picked up my new glasses, which have a much thicker rim than my previous invisible ones. &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Red&lt;/span&gt; rim that is. Bit scary because it is quite a change, but according to Jon "they are not all that different". Guys... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I desperately needed new lenses, and as my old glasses are falling apart I figured I should choose some new spectacles with it. Then I remembered how difficult that is! Especially if you have arrived there with your glasses on (no contacts). The first complication is when you have to take your own glasses off to try the others on. Right. Then the optician has all these little stickers all over the new glasses, so you have to put yourself in wierd angles to be able to see anything through them. Lastly, I was &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;alone&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Walking out of the shop this morning nearly made me fall over. Suddenly everything had so much more depth, very weird. After ten minutes my eyes got used to it, and I started to notice things I couldn't see before. I could count the amount of twigs in a tree, and see the faces of people in cars passing by. A whole new world! ;-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-4914596079814893759?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/4914596079814893759/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=4914596079814893759&amp;isPopup=true' title='22 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/4914596079814893759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/4914596079814893759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/02/new-glasses.html' title='New glasses'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>22</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-5249400904908388516</id><published>2007-01-27T15:06:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-01-27T16:32:07.755Z</updated><title type='text'>Nieuw Zeeland</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/Rbtt6LI7H0I/AAAAAAAAAAM/AFdcFI68nA4/s1600-h/P1030409.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/Rbtt6LI7H0I/AAAAAAAAAAM/AFdcFI68nA4/s320/P1030409.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5024730655451979586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;Jawel, lieve lezers… hier is dan eindelijk ons verhaal van onze reis naar Nieuw Zeeland. Na lang wikken en wegen (1 dag om precies te zijn) hebben we een selectie kunnen maken van de 700 foto’s die we genomen hebben. Die selectie vind je &lt;a href="http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/research/vision/jwp/gallery/NZ_2006"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; . (&lt;i&gt;let op: er zitten twee filmpjes tussen&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;Hieronder vat ik onze reis samen aan de hand van een paar foto’s. Pfff ... moeilijk!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;Na een spannende tussenstop in Seoul (Zuid-Korea) kwamen we aan in Christchurch, in het zuiden van Nieuw Zeeland. Daar haalden we onze huurauto en huurtent op en vertrokken we gelijk richting een verre (letterlijk en figuurlijk) oom en tante van Jon. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;Hele vriendelijke mensen die zijn gepensioneerd en zich &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;nu voornamelijk bezig houden met hun huisdieren alpaca’s. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RbtxKrI7H1I/AAAAAAAAAAU/u6rIYcs6pVg/s1600-h/Alpaca.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RbtxKrI7H1I/AAAAAAAAAAU/u6rIYcs6pVg/s200/Alpaca.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5024734237454704466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;Het zijn een sort lama’s, geweldig leuke dieren, heel vriendelijk en nieuwsgierig. Hoewel ze ook kunnen spugen, en daar ook een heel raar gezicht bij trekken, haha! Gelukkig spuugden ze vooral naar elkaar en niet naar ons &lt;/span&gt;:-)&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;De volgende morgen vertrokken we richting de bergen. Het probleem met Nieuw Zeeland is dat je in de bergachtige gebieden bij iedere bocht wel weer een mooi en verrassend uitzicht hebt, zodat je elkaar constant verveeld met geluidjes als: “oooohh....” en: “aaaahhh...”. We hebben er gelukkig ook een paar beklommen, met geweldig mooie uitzichten zoals deze als beloning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/Rbtx1LI7H2I/AAAAAAAAAAc/OM-Pdi4g2T8/s1600-h/BenLomond.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/Rbtx1LI7H2I/AAAAAAAAAAc/OM-Pdi4g2T8/s320/BenLomond.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5024734967599144802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;De voornaamste bestemming die eerste week was Milford Sound, een stukje paradijs op aarde (ware het niet dat er in het hoogseizoen wel 4000 mensen per dag komen. Gelukkig komen de meeste mensen er maar voor een paar uur; een handjevol blijft slapen in de Lodge en geniet écht). We hebben er een kayak-tocht gemaakt op de dag dat het volgens de gidsen het mooiste weer van het seizoen was (&lt;i&gt;”sweet eh, this is awesome man”&lt;/i&gt;) en hebben er vervolgens gelijk een combi-kayal en wandeltocht bij aangeplakt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RbtyvLI7H3I/AAAAAAAAAAk/Yd4RVxCnsBw/s1600-h/Milford-Sound_kano.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RbtyvLI7H3I/AAAAAAAAAAk/Yd4RVxCnsBw/s320/Milford-Sound_kano.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5024735964031557490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;          &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;De gids begeleidde ons over het laatste stukje van de Milford Track: de beroemdste, mooiste en langst-vooruit-volgeboekte vierdaagse wandeling die je kunt maken in de wereld. Daar werden we geintroduceerd aan het wonderlijke regenwoud: beuken- en fuchsiabomen, een inheemse boom met aparte rode bloemen en wel honderden verschillen soorten varens. W&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RbtzerI7H7I/AAAAAAAAABE/_5eSw3DWJvA/s1600-h/Kea.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 0px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RbtzerI7H7I/AAAAAAAAABE/_5eSw3DWJvA/s200/Kea.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5024736780075343794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;at dieren betreft zie je er vaak Kea’s (&lt;i&gt;worlds’ only alpine parrot&lt;/i&gt;) en loopvogels. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;Nieuw Zeeland heeft zelf nooit zoogdieren gehad, behalve de vleermuis, waardoor al het gevolgte vrij spel had om te evolueren. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;Zo hadden ze ook de moa, een gigantische struisvogel, die uiteindelijk is uitgestorven door de komst van de Maori’s. Vervolgens kwamen de Europeanen met de (buidel)rat en hermelijn, om nog eens tientallen soorten uit te laten sterven. Niet geheel onverwacht is diezelfde buidelrat (&lt;i&gt;possum&lt;/i&gt;) hierop het meest gehate dier van Nieuw Zeeland geworden: je vind ‘m dood overal op en langs de weg, soms zelfs pontificaal over een hekje gehangen, alsof ze daarmee andere buidelratten willen afschrikken. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RbtzerI7H8I/AAAAAAAAABM/pi7-xkyqBrI/s1600-h/DanJon.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RbtzerI7H8I/AAAAAAAAABM/pi7-xkyqBrI/s200/DanJon.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5024736780075343810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;Maar goed, veel moois en mooiers (vlucht met Cessna over het fjordland, Lake Wanaka en de Rob Roy gletsjer: &lt;a href="http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/research/vision/jwp/gallery/NZ_2006"&gt;zie foto's&lt;/a&gt;) later, kwam we aan in Auckland om samen met mijn ouders kerst bij mijn zus te vieren. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;Heel gezellig, maar toch ook wel raar, een heerlijk kerst dinner met licht buiten. Dat vond ik nog t meest vreemde, veel vreemder dan het missen van de kou.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;Samen met mijn zus, Daniel en mijn ouders bezochten we veel moois in het noordereiland, zoals geisers, Maori voorstellingen (met chief Jon als onze leider!), gloei-poep van maden (ahum, &lt;i&gt;glowworms&lt;/i&gt;) in grotten terwijl we ronddobberden in ijskoud water op rubberbanden en we hebben nog een hele indrukwekkende wandeling over vulkanen in Tongariro National Park (&lt;i&gt;The Tongariro Crossing&lt;/i&gt;) gemaakt. We konden goed zien hoe dit dé keuze was voor &lt;i&gt;Mordor&lt;/i&gt; uit Lord of the Rings. Er groeien nauwelijks planten en met de mist, wind en regen die we hadden, voelden we ons net een paar hobbits met een heeeele zware taak. Voor we weer vertrokken, namen Hester en Daniel ons mee uit naar het casino en naar de toren in Auckland voor een heerlijke maaltijd in een ronddraaiend restaurant.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RbtyvrI7H6I/AAAAAAAAAA8/PNOtS5cEH9c/s1600-h/Tongariro.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RbtyvrI7H6I/AAAAAAAAAA8/PNOtS5cEH9c/s320/Tongariro.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5024735972621492130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;Vervolgens hadden nog een weekje samen met mijn ouders weer in het zuidereiland, waar we snel over de Arthur’s Pass reden: de regen in het oosten joeg ons over de bergen naar de kust waar het heerlijk zonnig en warm was. Zelfs op de Franz Josef Gletsjer was het niet koud.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt; Reusachtig mooi, zo’n gletsjer! Daar hebben we nog mooi een flesje champagne opengetrokken om het (Engelse) nieuwe jaar te vieren. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;Wild gekampeerd in Jackson Bay, waar we tot onze verrassing nog pinguins en dolfijnen hebben gezien &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;en waar &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;onze buurman zowaar een aantal &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RbtyvbI7H4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/slY5BNy58kk/s1600-h/gletsjer.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 0px 0pt; display: block; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RbtyvbI7H4I/AAAAAAAAAAs/slY5BNy58kk/s320/gletsjer.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5024735968326524802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;kleine haaien opviste. Nog geprobeerd met de dolfijnen te zwemmen, maar oei wat was dat water koud! De zandvliegjes aan de westkust begonnen ook zo aan ons te vreten dat we ’s morgens maar weer gauw vertrokken om ergens anders ontbijt te nuttigen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Nadat we mijn ouders veel gedag hadden gezegd, vertrokken wij weer richting Christchurch. Maar dit keer met een enorme omweg, omdat we nog heel graag even wilden boulderen in wat je denk ik toch wel echt het mooiste boulderplekje te wereld kunt noemen: Castle Hill. Helemaal te gek. Als je er ook even rondloopt besef je dat het niet allemaal losse stenen zijn. Het is 1 grote rots die is uitgeslepen door weer en wind. Ook voor niet-klimmers een absolute aanrader. Maar toch ook wel heel stoer om de volgende keer dat we &lt;i&gt;The Chronicles of Narnia&lt;/i&gt; zien, te kunnen zeggen: kijk, dáár hebben wij geklommen!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RbtyvbI7H5I/AAAAAAAAAA0/ar3rFYLrfPU/s1600-h/CastleHill-Boulder.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/RbtyvbI7H5I/AAAAAAAAAA0/ar3rFYLrfPU/s320/CastleHill-Boulder.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5024735968326524818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="NL"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-5249400904908388516?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/5249400904908388516/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=5249400904908388516&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/5249400904908388516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/5249400904908388516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/01/nieuw-zeeland.html' title='Nieuw Zeeland'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jGzs5-ecEiI/Rbtt6LI7H0I/AAAAAAAAAAM/AFdcFI68nA4/s72-c/P1030409.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-7256137966162757447</id><published>2007-01-21T13:09:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-01-21T13:13:25.481Z</updated><title type='text'>How to buy a cheap trainticket in Britain</title><content type='html'>just to give you an idea about how painful it is &lt;a href="http://travel.guardian.co.uk/article/2007/jan/04/railtravel.cheaptickets"&gt;to buy a trainticket in Britain&lt;/a&gt; - and never, &lt;i&gt;ever &lt;/i&gt;to complain again about the Dutch system (crossing your fingers that the privatisation in the NL doesn't bring it this far)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-7256137966162757447?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/7256137966162757447/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=7256137966162757447&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/7256137966162757447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/7256137966162757447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-to-buy-cheap-trainticket-in-britain.html' title='How to buy a cheap trainticket in Britain'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-116905341664699295</id><published>2007-01-17T16:42:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-01-17T17:10:58.156Z</updated><title type='text'>News from Athens</title><content type='html'>uche uche (Dutch for coughing sound)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just a quick note on ciragettes, Greeks, Athens and of course the workshop. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lots of cigarettes, even though I regularly spot a no smoking sign. However, in general they ignore this, and even walk towards the exit of the workshop-room with a burning cigarette in their hands. The room is connecting to the hall, in which people (again ignoring signs) smoke as much as they can before entering a room (where they suddenly do obey the signs, sort of). As a result the room is soon field with smoke too. Then you start to notice how we are used to a non-smoking environment: my lungs start to complain immediately and the Greeks themselves don't seem to have any problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lots of Greeks too ;-)... men look at you shamelessly in the street (better ignore them, saying hi gives them the excuse to approach you for whatever reason), are somewhat more rude than English (who isn't?), and get too enthusiastic in a workshop. Very nice when you speak to them individually. From a hotel receptionist that wants desperately to teach me Greek (guess he picked out the linguist in me), to co-workshoppers that invite me for dinner. One girl with a very strong accent asked where I came from, because she spotted an accent, she said :-). Unfortunately, the people around the hotel do not have the impression to be very nice, so i usually try to walk as fast as i can or be accompanied by someone.   &lt;br /&gt;Students are passionate: we had to move the workshop due to protests against university privatisation. They took over the whole building after bombarding us with posters and folders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Athens, as far as I have been able to see, has nice and less nice sides (e.g. area around my hotel). The nicer ones look fancy and have loads of patios where you can sit outside in January still! So that's where a co-workshopper and I had dinner last night, and on another one some Ouzo (with live piano in the background). But I will see much more on Friday, when I have my day off in Athens!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, finally, the workshop is great. It is given by the developer of the statistical method himself, who is pretty old now. He has got the exact dryness that you somehow expect from older men that are very knowledge-able, which makes things hilarious at moments. It also makes things sometimes very complicated, I admit having missed a few things due to too many greeks letters and equations on ten square centimeters on the whitboard. (It does help though that I now need to learn Greek letters for two reasons!) Having a mostly Greek audience makes it also funny in that everytime he pronounces a Greek letter in the wrong way, one hears a wave of whispers of corrections around the room - no one really dears to confront him too hard with this to say it out loud. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So far so good then... need to dash for dinner now!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-116905341664699295?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/116905341664699295/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=116905341664699295&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116905341664699295'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116905341664699295'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/01/news-from-athens.html' title='News from Athens'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-116861622104223329</id><published>2007-01-12T15:30:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-01-12T15:49:37.736Z</updated><title type='text'>Athens!</title><content type='html'>I haven't even mentioned anything about our fabulous New Zealand trip here, I didn't even get over my jet-lag properly, and there I go, TO ATHENS!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why, you might wonder?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason is a bit less exotic as you might expect. A few days ago I discovered that there will be a really useful &lt;a href="www.ssicentral.com/workshops/LISRELworkshopAthens2007.pdf"&gt;workshop&lt;/a&gt; at the &lt;a href="http://www.aueb.gr/index_gb.htm"&gt;Athens University of Economics&lt;/a&gt;. It's about structural equation modeling, using software called &lt;a href="http://www.ssicentral.com/index.html"&gt;LISREL&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;i&gt;given by the software developer himself&lt;/i&gt;. Structural equation modeling, or SEM, is a method I will use in my next step, and is pretty complicated. A very welcome course!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I promise, as soon as I'm back, I'll post something about New Zealand (which was great by the way, or did I already mention that?).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-116861622104223329?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/116861622104223329/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=116861622104223329&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116861622104223329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116861622104223329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2007/01/athens.html' title='Athens!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-116611755472452811</id><published>2006-12-14T17:30:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-12-14T17:32:34.753Z</updated><title type='text'>Go Ape</title><content type='html'>ok very quickly - just before we head off to the other side of the world - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/jwp/2006GoApe/"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; are the pictures of our Go Ape adventure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you don't know what Go Ape is, then i suggest you just look at the pictures, it will  become clear quickly.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-116611755472452811?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/116611755472452811/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=116611755472452811&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116611755472452811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116611755472452811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/12/go-ape.html' title='Go Ape'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-116584757192812037</id><published>2006-12-11T14:28:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-12-11T14:32:51.930Z</updated><title type='text'>New Zealand - We're off soon!</title><content type='html'>Not sure if we'll be able to blog anything while we're there, but my parents have set up &lt;a href="http://bertengreetinnz.web-log.nl/"&gt;this blog&lt;/a&gt; where you can follow their adventures, partly overlapping with ours. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One note - it is in Dutch. Try  &lt;a href="http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/babelfish/tr"&gt;Babelfish&lt;/a&gt; if you're lost in translation :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-116584757192812037?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/116584757192812037/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=116584757192812037&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116584757192812037'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116584757192812037'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/12/new-zealand-were-off-soon.html' title='New Zealand - We&apos;re off soon!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-116584605486237395</id><published>2006-12-11T13:48:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-12-11T14:39:32.530Z</updated><title type='text'>Sheep Shrek shorn on iceberg</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1007/905/1600/770143/shrek.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1007/905/320/378223/shrek.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meet &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3639315.stm"&gt;Shrek&lt;/a&gt;, New Zealand's most famous sheep. He escaped being shorn for six years, until caught and shorn in 2004 for charity.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Now they struck again. This time it was shorn on an iceberg (as you do). To help the poor little thing walking on the ice, they even made him some crampons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1007/905/1600/478304/crampons.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1007/905/320/396235/crampons.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more photos of the adventure &lt;a href="http://www.nzpaimages.co.nz/events.php?event_id=2801&amp;show_all=0&amp;page_no=0"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-116584605486237395?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/116584605486237395/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=116584605486237395&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116584605486237395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116584605486237395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/12/sheep-shrek-shorn-on-iceberg.html' title='Sheep Shrek shorn on iceberg'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-116540594659197869</id><published>2006-12-06T11:50:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-12-14T17:33:18.596Z</updated><title type='text'>Hallowe'en party photos</title><content type='html'>click &lt;a href="http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/jwp/2006Halloween/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for the Hallowe'en 2006 photos!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just found out that Francois' photos are available from outside the Uni network as well. Have I let everyone wait for soo long for nothing....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://tpchn.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/photos/Halloween/"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; they are &lt;br /&gt;(they are worth looking at &gt; he has used very few flash, representing the atmosphere better :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-116540594659197869?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/116540594659197869/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=116540594659197869&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116540594659197869'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116540594659197869'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/12/halloween-party-photos.html' title='Hallowe&apos;en party photos'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-116343172934756257</id><published>2006-11-13T15:23:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:33:27.960Z</updated><title type='text'>HALLOWE'EN 2: The Wicked Warehouse</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/1600/BATH.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/200/BATH.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The traditional Hallowe'en Plumptre Party has moved to bloody New Basford this year!&lt;br /&gt;Near the gory gastanks on Radford Road, there is an old wicked warehouse.&lt;br /&gt;It had to be shut due to regular reports of ghost sightings... and has been redeveloped into apartments.&lt;br /&gt;Due to several witch hunts, we had to delay this year's Hallowe'en party (you would be thankful), but here it is, finally:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HALLOWE'EN&lt;br /&gt;Part 2: the Wicked Warehouse&lt;br /&gt;Sat 18th November&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;details and photos &lt;a href="http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/mxj/jp-mj_halloween-web.ppt"&gt;see here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(some details removed... email me if you need directions)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;feel free to forward to oblivious others&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MJ &amp; JP&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-116343172934756257?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/116343172934756257/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=116343172934756257&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116343172934756257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116343172934756257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/11/halloween-2-wicked-warehouse.html' title='HALLOWE&apos;EN 2: The Wicked Warehouse'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-116257852250136368</id><published>2006-11-03T18:26:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-11-03T18:28:42.513Z</updated><title type='text'>Saving hundreds of horses</title><content type='html'>Watch &lt;a href="http://www.nos.nl/nosjournaal/artikelen/2006/11/3/031106_paarden.html"&gt;this little video&lt;/a&gt;, to see how they saved the 120 horses that got trapped for days on a piece of land surrounded by the sea, in the north of the Netherlands. They had to wait until the sea retreated slowly again, to get them back on the land. Impressive piece of work!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-116257852250136368?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/116257852250136368/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=116257852250136368&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116257852250136368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116257852250136368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/11/saving-hundreds-of-horses.html' title='Saving hundreds of horses'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-116161882999601338</id><published>2006-10-23T16:08:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T17:16:48.730+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Photos from our Lab Retreat in Le Fugeret!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/200/06-LeFugeret.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/200/06-LeFugeret.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Voila, I managed to select a few of my favourite photos from the lab retreat, taken by Bean, Nick &amp; Eileen, Dale and me. I did not want to overload my flickr account with it, so it is on a separate page:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/mxj/photos/Nice/home.html"&gt;Nice Lab Retreat Photos&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had a great time! Arrived in Nice, took little train into the mountains to Le Fugeret, which was the cutest French village, just like you imagine them. Loads of good food and wine, a nice hike in the mountains, a splash in the river... aaah I like Tomas's philosophy of suffering during a lab retreat!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/1600/11-LeFugeret-Restaurant.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/200/11-LeFugeret-Restaurant.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-116161882999601338?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/116161882999601338/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=116161882999601338&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116161882999601338'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116161882999601338'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/10/photos-from-our-lab-retreat-in-le.html' title='Photos from our Lab Retreat in Le Fugeret!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-116120434116481417</id><published>2006-10-18T21:38:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-18T21:51:27.950+01:00</updated><title type='text'>My Neighbourhood</title><content type='html'>nee... nog steeds niet al die foto's bij elkaar geraapt om aan jullie te laten zien, van ons "lab retreat" in Nice, en van een weekendje kamperen met Jon in het Peak District...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maar om jullie dan toch even zoet te houden, hier drie kiekjes uit mijn buurt. :-)&lt;br /&gt;Oerlelijk en &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;toch&lt;/span&gt; heeft het iets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/273344793/" title="The Red Building"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/92/273344793_d14c1f6f5b.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Red Building" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Een van die gebouwen (hier alleen zijkant zichtbaar) die best mooi zouden kunnen zijn, indien beter onderhouden misschien?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/273344686/" title="The Spire"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/118/273344686_f852f40adf.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="The Spire" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En dan, &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;last but not least&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/273344573/" title="Grote gas tanks bij mij voor de deur!"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/90/273344573_879f4f365e.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Gas Tanks" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bij mij voor de deur!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-116120434116481417?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/116120434116481417/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=116120434116481417&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116120434116481417'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/116120434116481417'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/10/my-neighbourhood.html' title='My Neighbourhood'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-115850695725636251</id><published>2006-09-17T16:24:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-09-19T11:37:59.770+01:00</updated><title type='text'>bedankt!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/1600/during.jpg" title="Me running with exhausted bloke behind me" &gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/320/during.jpg" border="0" alt="me running with exhausted man behind me" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to all who sponsored me - it was a very challenging run! I completed it without pains though, which was a big relief, and in 58 minutes. Nice atmosphere, many people running for a good cause (but i bet ultimately for themselves too :), with messages on their back "in memory of...". The best one i saw said: "My auntie U's left boob". It wasn't a sad day at all, fortunately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh and check out &lt;a href="http://abee12.blogspot.com/"&gt;Celine's blog&lt;/a&gt;, she has published an interview with me! ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/1600/after.jpg" title="After: bit of a tomato face but fairly relaxed" &gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/320/after.jpg" border="0" alt="bit of a red head but fairly relaxed" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[noticed the new haircut, by the way?]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/1600/nieuwkapsel1.0.jpg" title="Before: my new haircut stilll in sort of a shape - 1"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/200/nieuwkapsel1.0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/1600/nieuwkapsel2.jpg" title="Before: my new haircut stilll in sort of a shape - 2"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/200/nieuwkapsel2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-115850695725636251?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/115850695725636251/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=115850695725636251&amp;isPopup=true' title='11 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115850695725636251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115850695725636251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/09/bedankt.html' title='bedankt!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-115773104340320216</id><published>2006-09-08T16:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T17:00:15.036+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sponsor me for Cancer Research UK</title><content type='html'>Ik ga volgende week een loopje doen waarbij ik gesponsord kan worden - en wel voor het Cancer Research fund UK. Dat is het grootste "funding body" in de UK die onderzoek naar kanker ondersteunt. &lt;br /&gt;Het is een beetje erg kortdag, en ik weet niet eens of het wel kan vanuit het buitenland, maar jullie kunnen proberen een steentje bij te dragen, als jullie willen.&lt;br /&gt;Klik op onderstaande link. Als je enige hulp nodig hebt met vertaling, laat t me horen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.10ksponsorme.org/marije "&gt;my sponsorpage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next week I will join a race for the Cancer Research UK. They are the biggest funding body in the UK, for any kind of cancer research (from prevention and cure to support). If you'd like to sponsor me, please click the link above.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BEDANKT / THANKS !&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-115773104340320216?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/115773104340320216/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=115773104340320216&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115773104340320216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115773104340320216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/09/sponsor-me-for-cancer-research-uk.html' title='Sponsor me for Cancer Research UK'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-115770962292714794</id><published>2006-09-08T10:34:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T11:10:33.336+01:00</updated><title type='text'>North Wales - near Conwy</title><content type='html'>I'm always late with this - I wonder if I'll ever improve in speed :-)&lt;br /&gt;But here you go, &lt;a href="http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/jwp/wales/"&gt;the pics of our trip to North-Wales&lt;/a&gt;! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We left for a long weekend with some friends, to spend our nights in tents on the grounds of a cottage on the top of a hill (mountain for the Dutchies). The cottage was very desolate - very romantic! And full of sheep :-), very nice waking up because  of those uncopyable sounds that sheep can make, zipping open your tent and then giving some sheep a heart attack.. hehehe... Pretty athletic sheep there by the way, did you know they jump over the stone walls? Really, we've seen them doing it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, it was also full of people that weekend, and everyone went seperate ways during the day. We went hiking in the beautiful surroundings of the National Park called "Snowdonia". It took us about 9 hours, including several breaks and a swim (well, only Celine and I dared to challenge the freezing cold lake). On the pics you'll find Sarah, a very nice girl from Canada who worked as an intership student with me over the summer (McGill sweater), the other Dutchie PhD student Jette (blond haired girl who looks like she's going shopping - the least complaining of all of us - this must have been a doddle for her :), then there is Celine (the crazy one), Jenny (with the sunglasses), looooaaaads of sheep and even some ponies (including one with an erection!?!), and us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next day we went for some bouldering, but it was so hot that some of us hid in the shade (Jette and I reading articles... I think I'll use that picture if anyone ever dares to say I don't work hard enough ;-), and then for a proper swim in a more comfortable lake. It is in that lake that Richard lost his car keys... and had to hang around another day waiting for someone to fix it and drive home. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We were soo lucky... playing with our luck, spending a whole weekend in Wales... and it did not even rain a single drop!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/jwp/wales/slides/pano2.jpg"/&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-115770962292714794?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/115770962292714794/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=115770962292714794&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115770962292714794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115770962292714794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/09/north-wales-near-conwy.html' title='North Wales - near Conwy'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-115435212437882667</id><published>2006-07-31T14:19:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-31T14:39:05.376+01:00</updated><title type='text'>HAAATSJOEEE - over niezen op Ameland</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;English running title: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;AAAAAAACHOOOOOO - about sneezing on Ameland &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(with secial thanks to Bean)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/201273246/" title="pre-sneeze"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/57/201273246_b806d79b54.jpg" alt="pre-sneeze" height="377" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OOHHHAAAAAAA..... (pre-sneeze)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/201273658/" title="The Big Sneeze"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/67/201273658_645196fd90.jpg" alt="sneeze2" height="342" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;....CHOOOOOOOOO!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/201274076/" title="Did something go down my cleavage...?"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/75/201274076_bf78623245.jpg" alt="sneeze3" height="338" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did something go down my cleavage...?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/201274469/" title="phew.....!"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/73/201274469_37da136fe9.jpg" alt="sneeze4" height="399" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...phew!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/sets/158842/"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; for the rest of the pictures from our visit to the Netherlands, and mostly  our stay on Ameland, a lovely little island full of dunes, in the North.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-115435212437882667?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/115435212437882667/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=115435212437882667&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115435212437882667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115435212437882667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/07/haaatsjoeee-over-niezen-op-ameland.html' title='HAAATSJOEEE - over niezen op Ameland'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-115341485883548643</id><published>2006-07-20T17:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-20T18:00:58.956+01:00</updated><title type='text'>C.R.A.Z.Y.</title><content type='html'>Even geen foto's deze keer (hoewel ik alweer flink achterloop: reisje naar Ameland, weekendje kamperen in Snowdonia, North-Wales...), maar een film tip:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401085/"&gt;C.R.A.Z.Y.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ergens in het begin van de film dacht ik nog: &lt;i&gt;ooh  ik hoop dat deze film heeeel lang gaat duren!&lt;/i&gt; En dat deed ie! Naast het geniale script en alle grappige en emotionele gebeurtenissen, is het ook erg leuk om typische Quebec eigenschappen te herkennen uit die tijd (veel roken, grote families, sterk katholicisme dat gepaard gaat met scheldwoorden uit de kerk), maar het is aan de andere kant weer zo generaliseerbaar dat het voor iedereen grappig is. Het gaat over 1 familie, voornamelijk over de 1-na jongste zoon Zac, die zijn leven lang strijdt tegen het verschillend zijn van anderen. Zijn moeder denkt dat hij speciale gaven heeft, zijn vader is doodsbang dat hij homosexueel is en hijzelf is het allemaal aan t ontdekken. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;echt super!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-115341485883548643?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/115341485883548643/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=115341485883548643&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115341485883548643'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115341485883548643'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/07/crazy.html' title='C.R.A.Z.Y.'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-115255111273741481</id><published>2006-07-10T17:54:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-10T18:05:12.750+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Piers' goodbye party</title><content type='html'>Luke took some&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/attaboyluke/sets/72157594193926999/"&gt; awesome, snazzy pictures&lt;/a&gt; during a superb party at Piers' (or Piers's??).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/attaboyluke/sets/72157594193926999/"&gt;Leuke foto's van Luke&lt;/a&gt;: je ziet echt iedereen met een brede lach. Hihi, kun je zien dat ik de enige was die nuchter bleef (ik was de Bob)?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-115255111273741481?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/115255111273741481/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=115255111273741481&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115255111273741481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115255111273741481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/07/piers-goodbye-party.html' title='Piers&apos; goodbye party'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-115236271099319002</id><published>2006-07-08T13:28:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-10T17:47:48.303+01:00</updated><title type='text'>All Tomorrow's Parties - Festival</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/184066899/" title="Broken Social Scene: Amy Millan"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/72/184066899_b00dc6e7b8_m.jpg" alt="Broken Social Scene: Amy Millan" height="240" width="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Broken Social Scene (singer Amy Millan)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am very very slow with this, but finally I've posted pictures from our stay at Camber Sands, in the south of England, during a music festival called All Tomorrow's Parties. The music was a sort of underground independent music, whereby the main acts had chosen and invited the other bands. Luke has written more about this a while ago, &lt;a href="http://attaboy.ca/archives/2006/05/000928.php"&gt;see here&lt;/a&gt; (I realise he posted that one more than 44 days ago. I am really really slow!). He also found a weird link to the &lt;a href="http://www.butlinsmemories.com/18/id22.htm"&gt;holiday homes&lt;/a&gt; we were staying in, it really looked exactly like that!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luke has taken &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/attaboyluke/sets/72057594143007298/"&gt;very nice pictures&lt;/a&gt;, like the one below, and we have attempted at some too, &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/marije/sets/158845/"&gt;see here&lt;/a&gt;. Enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/184794403/" title="Luke's pic"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/74/184794403_513ec0376e_o.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="smiles" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;And voor de Dutchies onder ons: Een tijdje geleden zijn we samen met Luke en Bean naar het zuiden van Engeland gegaan om een independent rock festival bij te wonen, dat plaatsvond in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://www.butlinsmemories.com/18/id22.htm"&gt;een soort bungalowpark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; Het festival heet All Tomorrow's Parties, en is anders dan zoiets als Pinkpop en Lowlands omdat de main acts zelf de andere bands uitkiezen en uitnodigen. Dit is het allereerste festival waar ik ooit naartoe ben geweest, en waarbij ik ook ben blijven slapen. Maar de eerste keer is dus gelijk luxe: geen tenten maar kleine appartementjes om in te overnachten, beschermd tegen alle wind en regen die we hebben gehad dat weekend! Heel erg geslaagd weekend, veel relaxen, concerten bezoeken, en zelfs een beetje cultuur en natuur. Het strand was om de hoek (hoewel niet erg mooi weer dus), en ook was er een heel pitoresque dorpje vlakbij, genaamd Rye. Zie hier voor &lt;a style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://flickr.com/photos/attaboyluke/sets/72057594143007298/"&gt;Luke's foto's&lt;/a&gt; (hij heeft er wat meer van mij genomen dan ikzelf :-), en hier voor &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/marije/sets/158845/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;mijn foto's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-115236271099319002?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/115236271099319002/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=115236271099319002&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115236271099319002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115236271099319002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/07/all-tomorrows-parties-festival.html' title='All Tomorrow&apos;s Parties - Festival'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-115211304945275549</id><published>2006-07-05T16:12:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-06T15:46:20.190+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Dutch bum saves boring tennis match</title><content type='html'>Now, how often do you hear that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's a shame the Guardian doesn't show any picture, but &lt;a href="http://sport.guardian.co.uk/wimbledon2006/story/0,,1812866,00.html"&gt;the description&lt;/a&gt; of the Dutch streakers naked body parts are rather descriptive and flattering. I quote: "And so it was that at 1.49pm, midway through a contest of monochrome predictability involving Maria Sharapova and Elena Dementieva, a suspiciously well-presented young man, bearing a fleeting resemblance to David Beckham, pranced naked on to Centre Court. A subsequent cartwheel gave everyone a good view of what, post-Rooney, we must now call his Ricardo Carvalhos before he was escorted away wrapped in a large red blanket."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fortunately, the Dutch news website was nice enough to &lt;a href="http://www.nos.nl/nosjournaal/columns/londen/weblog.html"&gt;publish a picture&lt;/a&gt; for everyone who missed it on tv.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[edit] aah that's a shame, they took the picture away!&lt;br /&gt;[edit] ha! found &lt;a href="http://www.ad.nl/sport/article449488.ece?start=1"&gt;another (Dutch) website&lt;/a&gt; where you can see FOUR pictures (alas, none full frontal ;-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-115211304945275549?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/115211304945275549/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=115211304945275549&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115211304945275549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115211304945275549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/07/dutch-bum-saves-boring-tennis-match.html' title='Dutch bum saves boring tennis match'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-115096585234116536</id><published>2006-06-22T09:33:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-06-22T09:45:56.916+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Hup Holland hup, laat de fans niet in hun onderbroek staan...</title><content type='html'>Het is altijd tijdens internationale sportwedstrijden dat ik besef wat er oranje is in mijn omgeving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dit keer: mijn pen, een post-it , een sticker op een boek en een pennenbakje. Dat is alles.&lt;br /&gt;(hoewel... de titel van iedere bericht ziet er ook een beetje oranje uit :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Een beetje mager in vergelijking met alle oranje fans! En dan te bedenken dat sommige bijna &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5104252.stm"&gt;in hun onderbroek&lt;/a&gt; kwam te staan. Gelukkig besloten ze bij de wedstrijd van gisteren de fans te voorzien van broeken - indien nodig. Wat attent: ze waren nog oranje ook!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-115096585234116536?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/115096585234116536/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=115096585234116536&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115096585234116536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115096585234116536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/06/hup-holland-hup-laat-de-fans-niet-in.html' title='Hup Holland hup, laat de fans niet in hun onderbroek staan...'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-115073162260500450</id><published>2006-06-19T16:37:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-06-19T16:40:22.606+01:00</updated><title type='text'>crazy Dutchies - cycling from Paris to Utrecht</title><content type='html'>My dad just completed 620 km from the Tour d' Eiffel to the Domtoren in Utrecht. Nuts!&lt;br /&gt;he did that together with 29  others to raise money for charity, and attract attention from the committee that decides the starting place of the Tour de France in 2009. I am waiting for more info and pictures!!&lt;br /&gt;stay tuned...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-115073162260500450?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/115073162260500450/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=115073162260500450&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115073162260500450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115073162260500450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/06/crazy-dutchies-cycling-from-paris-to.html' title='crazy Dutchies - cycling from Paris to Utrecht'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-115030710149356160</id><published>2006-06-14T18:37:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-05T16:36:23.753+01:00</updated><title type='text'>De trouwdatum is geprikt!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;We picked the wedding date!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Op &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;22 juni 2007&lt;/span&gt; gaan we trouwen in een mooi &lt;a href="http://www.slotzuylen.com/"&gt;kasteeltje&lt;/a&gt; in Maarssen, met een kleine groep mensen om ons heen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dus pak snel je agenda, en noteer &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;30 juni 2007&lt;/span&gt; als de dag dat je in Nottingham bent voor een groot feest! Kijk op z'n minst een paar maanden daarvoor op &lt;a href="http://www.bmibaby.com/bmibaby/en/index.aspx"&gt;BMI Baby&lt;/a&gt; voor een goedkoop ticket, dat scheelt een hoop!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;22nd of June 2007&lt;/span&gt; i&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;s the day we will marry in The Netherlands, surrounded by very few, in a very cute&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.slotzuylen.com/"&gt;castle&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;in Maarssen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;So take your diary, and make sure you reserve the date &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;30th of June 2007&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;in your diary. That's the day we'll have a grand party in Nottingham!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;::::::::::::::::::::::::&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;getting kind off annoyed now with that ticker thing at the top of the page. So i'll paste it here :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/4;0;126/st/20070622/e/our+wedding%21/dt/5/k/44f2/event.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-115030710149356160?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/115030710149356160/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=115030710149356160&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115030710149356160'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/115030710149356160'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/06/de-trouwdatum-is-geprikt.html' title='De trouwdatum is geprikt!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-114984924968322008</id><published>2006-06-09T11:21:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-06-14T18:28:14.150+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Alweer op BBC Nottingham!</title><content type='html'>We worden nog beroemd zo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gespot door de BBC: twee ouders op t vliegveld om hun dochter te bezoeken in Nottingham. Dit alles tijdens slecht weer - waarom komen ze nou in godsnaam naar dit slechte weer-land? Antwoord: het is geen slecht weer-land, het is namelijk overal slecht weer. Goh, dat was moeilijk. Het was gewoon even leuk om te laten zien dat er mensen speciaal uit het buitenland naar Nottingham toekomen. En het is natuurlijk NOG leuker dat mijn ouders daarbij geinterviewd werden! Klik op de link hieronder en bekijk het filmpje in Quicktime (&lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html"&gt;klik hier&lt;/a&gt; om t te dowloaden). Laat me weten als iets niet lukt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;My parents were spotted by the local BBC crew when they came over for a visit, a few weeks ago. The BBC was curious why the hell people would come to Nottingham in this weather. Note that the weather is fine now, rather hot and sunny!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(85, 136, 170);" href="http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/mxj/BBCNottingham-papamama.mov"&gt;Click here to download the clip and play it in Quicktime&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html"&gt;Get Quicktime here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(85, 136, 170);" href="http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/mxj/BBCNottingham-papamama.mov"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-114984924968322008?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/114984924968322008/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=114984924968322008&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114984924968322008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114984924968322008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/06/alweer-op-bbc-nottingham.html' title='Alweer op BBC Nottingham!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-114889844616019025</id><published>2006-05-29T11:16:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-05-29T12:53:05.200+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Marike Jager</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/1600/MarikeJager-cover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/320/MarikeJager-cover.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey cool! I just discovered that an old student colleague of mine Marike Jager has made made it to an official cd and publicity on the country's main music website!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To listen to her cd, go &lt;a href="http://3voor12.vpro.nl/3voor12/luisterpaal/luisterpaalalbum.shtml?10617791+28550073"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;or, if that doesn't work:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3voor12.vpro.nl/3voor12/luisterpaal/luisterpaalmain.shtml"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and click &lt;i&gt;omlaag&lt;/i&gt; or &lt;i&gt;omhoog&lt;/i&gt; until you see her cd. Her cd is called "The Beauty Around".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If it's not there... too late!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you do manage to listen to it, leave a comment here to tell me what you think of it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-114889844616019025?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/114889844616019025/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=114889844616019025&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114889844616019025'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114889844616019025'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/05/marike-jager.html' title='Marike Jager'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-114884982978477062</id><published>2006-05-28T21:51:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-05-28T22:07:52.633+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Natte neus</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/155013407/" &gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/68/155013407_0f9aaa3b3e_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Zoenen?" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heerlijk weekendje met ouders achter de rug.&lt;br /&gt;Ze zitten nu nog in het vliegtuig naar huis, en de &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/sets/677886/"&gt;foto's staan al online&lt;/a&gt;, snel hè!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-114884982978477062?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/114884982978477062/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=114884982978477062&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114884982978477062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114884982978477062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/05/natte-neus.html' title='Natte neus'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-114777295968340330</id><published>2006-05-16T10:39:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-05-16T10:51:56.970+01:00</updated><title type='text'>It's a foggy day</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/51/147481351_f91d33299c_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Traversing the sheep" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Traversing the sheep at Burbage South, Peak District&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once again a hot week was followed by a cloudy and rainy weekend. &lt;br /&gt;Oh well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We decided to make the most out of it and went outdoors anyway. Surprisingly, we found some dry sides on some of the boulders! &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/sets/677886/"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; you can find some photos of our foggy bouldering day, with our climbing buddies (met them in the climbing centre) Jamie, Sean and Alan.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-114777295968340330?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/114777295968340330/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=114777295968340330&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114777295968340330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114777295968340330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/05/its-foggy-day.html' title='It&apos;s a foggy day'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-114596745253509859</id><published>2006-04-25T13:04:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-25T13:19:37.043+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Bouldering at wuthering heights - Lakes District</title><content type='html'>This weekend we decided to put our brand new boulder-mat to use, as well as to test out our brand-new tent. So there we went: up to the Lakes District, in a tiny place called Wasdale Head. It's gorgeous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.lakesbloc.co.uk/7.html"&gt;Lakes bouldering discription on the web&lt;/a&gt; says this: "Situated on the North East facing slopes of Yewbarrow fell in the valley of Wasdale, the Stirrup boulders are an excellent collection of around seven large blocks in a beautiful mountain setting, commanding superb views of Gable and the Scafell crags." And a slope it was! We decided on several problems that should be easy enough for us (V0 - probably comparable to a 4 in Britain and 5a in the Netherlands) to simply skip it, because of the risk of falling and rolling down the very, very steep slope that consisted already mostly out of scree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But hey, we managed to do some V0s on do-not-mention-it-to-your-mum steep slopes. Don't get me wrong: probably the experienced British boulderer would be laughing at us now. But for beginners outdoor-boulderers that was pretty f*ing scary!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a nice heroic picture of Jon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/44/134777852_fd3e2f2cdc.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Jonny on the rocks" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-114596745253509859?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/114596745253509859/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=114596745253509859&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114596745253509859'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114596745253509859'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/04/bouldering-at-wuthering-heights-lakes.html' title='Bouldering at wuthering heights - Lakes District'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-114452000204577358</id><published>2006-04-08T18:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-04-10T13:01:02.803+01:00</updated><title type='text'>vierdaagse door Nederland</title><content type='html'>Vorig weekend zijn we vier dagen door Nederland getoerd: van Maarssen naar Maastricht, naar Nijmegen, naar Rotterdam en weer terug naar Nottingham. Dankzij deze hoop mensen was het erg geslaagd: papa &amp; mama, Anne &amp; Tim, Dirk, Maya, Bram &amp; Tjarda, Atsuko, Ole &amp; Freya &amp; Oskar, en Janneke &amp; Ralph. Allemaal heel erg bedankt voor alles en hopelijk tot snel in Nottingham!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/sets/158842/"&gt;klik hier voor de foto's&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dingen die niet op de foto staan maar wel de moeite waard waren, zijn onder andere:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- de nagebootste koraalriffen in Burger's Zoo. Zorgvuldig opgebouwd en nu prachtig en vol met mooie vissen.&lt;br /&gt;- de zelfgemaakte pizza van Bram en Tjarda :)&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.pilobolus.com/"&gt;Pilobolus&lt;/a&gt;, art performance, moderne dans en acrobatiek &lt;br /&gt;- Lentetoer van de NS. De hele dag reizen in het weekend voor 2 personen in EERSTE KLAS!&lt;br /&gt;- de snerttram door Rotterdam. Heeeel veel informatie, zicht op Rotterdam én een kopje snert.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-114452000204577358?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/114452000204577358/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=114452000204577358&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114452000204577358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114452000204577358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/04/vierdaagse-door-nederland.html' title='vierdaagse door Nederland'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-114356513535384011</id><published>2006-03-28T17:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-03-28T18:17:55.443+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The B&amp;BC on BBC</title><content type='html'>Het lokale BBC station kwam vorige week langs om &lt;a style="color: rgb(85, 136, 170);" href="http://www.brainbody.nottingham.ac.uk/"&gt;dit interessante nieuwe onderzoekscentrum&lt;/a&gt; te filmen....en maakte er een minuut-lang stukje van voor in het nieuws. Klik op de links hieronder om het te downloaden en bekijken, de eerste voor Windows Media Player en de tweede voor Real Player.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We hebben hier hard gelachen om de verwachtingen die ze van ons hebben (een vier miljoen pond centrum opgezet om de oorzaken en genezingen van al die ziektes te ontdekken) en hoe Naomi wordt neergezet als een smokende zwangere vrouw (let op wat de omroepster zegt hihi).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 100);"&gt;The local BBC came by to make a footage of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(85, 136, 170);" href="http://www.brainbody.nottingham.ac.uk/"&gt;our research centre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 100);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(85, 136, 170);"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; and aired it a few days ago. Luckily we got the tape and i was able to digitise it, see below. Apologies for the bad quality!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 100);"&gt;oh and by the way, Naomi is not pregnant, neither does she smoke :-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(85, 136, 170);" href="http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/mxj/BBC.wmv"&gt;click here to view the clip in Windows Media Player&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(85, 136, 170);" href="http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/mxj/BBC.rmvb"&gt;click here to view the clip in RealPlayer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-114356513535384011?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/114356513535384011/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=114356513535384011&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114356513535384011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114356513535384011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/03/bbc-on-bbc.html' title='The B&amp;BC on BBC'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-114347826678997094</id><published>2006-03-27T17:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-03-27T17:52:33.653+01:00</updated><title type='text'>grappig</title><content type='html'>Wist je dat Nottinghamse prostituees (op straat natuurlijk, niet zo luxueus als in NL) wel driedubbel zoveel, zo dikke en zo lange kleding aanhebben in vergelijking met de gemiddelde winterkleding van die meiden van hier?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-114347826678997094?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/114347826678997094/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=114347826678997094&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114347826678997094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114347826678997094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/03/grappig.html' title='grappig'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-114268976730122060</id><published>2006-03-18T13:46:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-28T17:22:16.486+01:00</updated><title type='text'>pictures Czechia</title><content type='html'>click &lt;a href="http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/jwp/czechRetreat/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for pictures from the retreat, assembled from different cameras and photographers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;click &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/attaboyluke/sets/72057594082645705/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for Luke (Attaboy)'s pictures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;enjoy!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-114268976730122060?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/114268976730122060/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=114268976730122060&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114268976730122060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114268976730122060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/03/pictures-czechia.html' title='pictures Czechia'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-114233909814200372</id><published>2006-03-14T11:46:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-14T17:41:09.963Z</updated><title type='text'>Czechia</title><content type='html'>Did you know...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- that no matter where you look, Prague is stunning!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- that dependent on where you look, you might see someone flashing at you, even in -5º.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- that the name &lt;a href="http://www.czechia.org/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Czechia&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is recommended to be used instead of &lt;i&gt;Czech Republic&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- that dogs are &lt;a href="http://www.volny.cz/amazonka/bsl_en.htm"&gt;obliged&lt;/a&gt; to wear a &lt;a href="http://www.fordogtrainers.com/ProductImages/pictures/breed/malinois/dog-muzzles/wire-dog-muzzle/wire-dog-muzzle-nylon-dog-collar-padded-black2.jpg"&gt;muzzle&lt;/a&gt; anywhere in public. (&lt;a href="http://www.avikatz.net/report/jrep2/politics/muzzle.jpg"&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is supposed to make people feel &lt;i&gt;safer&lt;/i&gt;?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Czechs in Prague are pretty good in English and very proud to show you. Actually, if you do try hard to utter a sentence in Czech, be prepared to be laughed at! However, if you persist with the small words here and there, you might sometimes break through the Czech rudeness and get a sympathetic smile back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- up to a decade ago, there was &lt;a href="http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Czech_Republic/Hlavni_Mesto_Praha/Prague-400455/Local_Customs-Prague-In_restaurant-BR-1.html"&gt;no such thing as customer service&lt;/a&gt; in Czechia. Believe me, they are still learning now. Local guides are advising those in tourism to be nicer to tourists, if they want the number of tourists to increase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- it snowed so much in the Yesenik mountains that many trees broke by the weight of ice and snow. Others looked like characters in Star Wars!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... stay tuned for pictures!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-114233909814200372?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/114233909814200372/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=114233909814200372&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114233909814200372'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114233909814200372'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/03/czechia.html' title='Czechia'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-114123155811746874</id><published>2006-03-01T16:41:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-01T16:45:58.170Z</updated><title type='text'>Verloofd!</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/42/82239471_bfae0cac27.jpg" alt="J&amp;amp;M" height="375" width="500" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-114123155811746874?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/114123155811746874/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=114123155811746874&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114123155811746874'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114123155811746874'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/03/verloofd.html' title='Verloofd!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-114079650954397728</id><published>2006-02-24T15:38:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-24T17:09:04.016Z</updated><title type='text'>Schaatsgekte - hup holland hup!</title><content type='html'>Mijn grootste bron van afleiding deze laatste twee weken was absoluut het schaatsen op de Olympische Spelen. Zooo gevaarlijk als de klok vier uur slaat.... je kunt er dan wel vanuit gaan dat je me stoort tijdens de spelen. Tenzij je het zelf ook aan t bekijken bent natuurlijk. Zo ben ik vaak ondertussen met Luke aan het chatten. &lt;a href="http://attaboy.ca/"&gt;Luke&lt;/a&gt; komt zelf uit Canada, en heeft zo zijn redenen om het speedskaten, naast het ice hockey, te volgen. Die Canadesen doen het erg goed! Zo kwamen we zelf achter allerlei grappige feiten: een paar van die goede Canadese schaatsers, hebben ofwel een errug Nederlands klinkende naam (Cindy Klassen) ofwel twee Nederlandse ouders (Dankers, met zelfs een Nederlandse voornaam: Arne).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ja die Nederlanders doen het ook weer goed dit jaar... Dat verklaart waarschijnlijk ook dat ik er weer zo gekluistert voor de computer bij zit als het begint. Ik volg alles gedwee via de BBC website, noodgedwongen omdat de NOS-website niet gemaakt is voor niet-IE gebruikers (laat me er niet over beginnen....@£#!??). Hoewel de reporters op die site niet de juiste achtergrond hebben, (onmogelijk, aangezien Engeland GEEN EEN lange baan heeft) verdiepen ze zich duidelijk wel in het schaatsen voor ze beginnen met praten. Behalve de namen natuurlijk! Wist je al dat er wel twee g's in Carl Verheijen's naam zitten? Tja, tis af en toe wel frustrerend als je ziet dat die nederlanders weer een interview geven na hun rit, en dan mis ik toch wel weer dat meestal heerlijke Noordelijke accentje en de meestal voorspelbare uitingen ("Jaah en toen dacht ik, ut zit er gewoen neit in vandoag").&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vorige week vroeg iemand waarom die Nederlanders allemaal toch zo gek zijn van schaatsen. Droogjes merkte &lt;a href="http://www.petrabos.blogspot.com/"&gt;Petra&lt;/a&gt; toen mooi op dat dat was omdat dat het enige is waar Nederlanders goed in zijn. Dat houdt de populariteit van de sport nu zeker wel staande, maar dat is niet de verklaring van waar het vandaan komt natuurlijk. Een klein zoektochtje op het web vertelde me dat het speedskaten zoals wij dat kennen, in Nederland is uitgevonden. Maar: de allereerste wedstrijd vond plaats in de achttiende eeuw, hou je vast, in centraal Engeland! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jan Bos heeft net een heeele mooie tijd neergezet op de 10km...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[UPDATE: En hij heeft de goude plak gewonnen, na een spectaculaire race tussen Hedrick en Vergggheijen!]&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-114079650954397728?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/114079650954397728/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=114079650954397728&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114079650954397728'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/114079650954397728'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/02/schaatsgekte-hup-holland-hup.html' title='Schaatsgekte - hup holland hup!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-113898949518648525</id><published>2006-02-03T17:49:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-03T18:02:10.136Z</updated><title type='text'>boring</title><content type='html'>need to post more, huh?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, sometimes i just wonder if something is interesting enough to publish. So here i go, talking about politics. Again there's an article in the news with evidence that Blair and Bush had already long decided to invade Iraq weeks before they previously said they had. Also it quotes Bush proposing to "&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4675724.stm"&gt;provoke Saddam Hussein by sending a spy plane over Iraq in UN colours&lt;/a&gt;". If they shoot, we have our excuse. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am sure this is not surprising anymore to many people. But it makes it even more surprising those two blokes are still being taken seriously.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;yaaawn...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... boring!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-113898949518648525?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/113898949518648525/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=113898949518648525&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113898949518648525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113898949518648525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/02/boring.html' title='boring'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-113717209230790929</id><published>2006-01-13T17:04:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-13T17:08:12.336Z</updated><title type='text'>giraffe</title><content type='html'>remember &lt;a href="http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/10/een-raadsel.html"&gt;the painting my neighbour (3)&lt;/a&gt; made, and how different people saw so many different things in there?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;during our stay in the netherlands, we found out that she had "obviously" painted a giraffe!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;mmmm ...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-113717209230790929?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/113717209230790929/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=113717209230790929&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113717209230790929'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113717209230790929'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/01/giraffe.html' title='giraffe'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-113641828995132212</id><published>2006-01-04T23:33:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-05T13:33:22.366Z</updated><title type='text'>gekke jongens, die engelsen</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/82165761/" title="racing reindeer"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/38/82165761_7966144109_m.jpg" width="240" height="152" alt="racing reindeer lineup" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tijdens ieder kerstdiner in Engeland (en dat zijn er veel: voor ieder bedrijf, afdeling, subafdeling, familie, enz, enz) liggen er zogenaamde 'crackers' op tafel. Nu denk je, goh, misschien wat typische kerst hapjes? Welnee, het zijn kartonnen ronde enorme bon-bon gevormde cadeautjes. Je neemt er een in de rechterhand en bied hem aan aan je buurman aan je linkerkant. Hij doet hetzelfde aan zijn linkerkant, etc., etc., tot de tafelrond is. Dan is het aftellen en... trekken maar! Als je geluk hebt (en dus niet, zoals ik, geen idee hebt wat er gaat gebeuren en je buurman verontwaardig aankijkt "waarom deed je dat nou?"), heb je een of twee delen van crackers in je hand, met een kleinzielig en onnuttig cadeautje erin. Oja, en een crepe-papieren kroontje!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jon's familie heeft er een oplossing op gevonden en koopt altijd de wat interessantere crackers. Dit jaar: racende rendieren. Ze bleken naast onvermoeilijk vrolijk brommend aan iedere race mee te willen doen, ook nog eens fotogeniek te zijn. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ik kijk nu al uit naar de crackers van volgend jaar!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-113641828995132212?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/113641828995132212/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=113641828995132212&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113641828995132212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113641828995132212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2006/01/gekke-jongens-die-engelsen.html' title='gekke jongens, die engelsen'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-113526716684845958</id><published>2005-12-22T15:57:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-12-22T15:59:26.863Z</updated><title type='text'>merry christmas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a target="ext"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/38/76278778_8aab1ae4dc.jpg" alt="kerstboom" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;fijne kerstdagen iedereen!&lt;br /&gt;have a jolly good christmas everyone!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marije&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-113526716684845958?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/113526716684845958/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=113526716684845958&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113526716684845958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113526716684845958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/12/merry-christmas.html' title='merry christmas'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-113516720847107878</id><published>2005-12-21T11:50:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-12-21T12:13:28.486Z</updated><title type='text'>no kidding!</title><content type='html'>today on the BBC, shocking news:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4548338.stm"&gt;"Midriff-bearing tops and backless dresses could be harming young women's health, experts have warned. Going out on a chilly winter night in clothes more suited to "Florida or Ibiza" is not sensible, they say"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's more shocking is that in this country, this may come as a surprise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But let's get over that and maybe think of what this article will do. The answer is simple: nothing. A mother may think : "I always thought there was something wrong with it!". The party-people will shrug and maybe get that predicted cold (big deal). Then they drink another couple of pints and they forget all about it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will it change the awareness on the topic? don't think so.&lt;br /&gt;Is it a big deal? not really. You get used to the sight of it, they get used to having a cold. Cheers to that!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-113516720847107878?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/113516720847107878/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=113516720847107878&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113516720847107878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113516720847107878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/12/no-kidding.html' title='no kidding!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-113458638577881578</id><published>2005-12-14T18:47:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-12-14T18:54:44.986Z</updated><title type='text'>funny tree</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/73567529/" title="Photo Sharing" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/35/73567529_39057e58f3_m.jpg" width="156" height="240" alt="funny tree" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How often do you actually cross these kind of trees without noticing? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It looks like this is one single tree, that splitted pretty quickly into two. But then, one of its branches decided to join the other again. Without any human intervention, no wires, no help. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We saw this one during a hike at the eastcoast of England, Suffolk.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-113458638577881578?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/113458638577881578/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=113458638577881578&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113458638577881578'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113458638577881578'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/12/funny-tree.html' title='funny tree'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-113184162632730502</id><published>2005-11-13T00:22:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-11-15T19:10:34.716Z</updated><title type='text'>AA op reis</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/62596343/" title="Photo Sharing" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/62596343_345dfbc7a6_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="schoone slaapsters" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Klik &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/sets/677886/" target="ext"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;voor een verzameling foto's van onze wandeling door het peak district, en &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/sets/158845/" target="ext"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;voor foto's gemaakt tijdens een supersnelle wandeling door de stad (na een heerlijk ontbijt).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Was errug gezellig!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-113184162632730502?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/113184162632730502/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=113184162632730502&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113184162632730502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113184162632730502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/11/aa-op-reis.html' title='AA op reis'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-113092528479065885</id><published>2005-11-02T09:54:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-11-15T19:02:13.200Z</updated><title type='text'>Hallowe'en!</title><content type='html'>Last weekend we threw a HALLOWE'EN party at the Plumptre Patio (I lived there, before I moved... Bean, Luke and Jen still live there. Best place to be in town).&lt;br /&gt;After chips/crisps tasting, we carved pumpkins with Petra and Hiten, had some BBQ and started decorating the patio. Then, finally, we attempted to finish our own costumes and succeeded when 6 people had already arrived. oops.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's Bean's naughty cat:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/1600/57492014_cfe3cf2623_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/320/57492014_cfe3cf2623_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven't made any pictures myself, but loads of others did, fortunately! We had a great time, lots of spooky and funny fancy dresses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take a look at Petra's blog for her &lt;a href="http://petrabos.blogspot.com/2005/10/halloween.html"&gt;nice description&lt;/a&gt; of the party (in english).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/petrabos/57492006/in/set-1042063/"&gt;Petra's pictures&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/attaboyluke/sets/1268643/"&gt;Luke's pictures&lt;/a&gt; are both posted on flickr.&lt;br /&gt;Petr zipped his bunch of stunning pictures and posted it for download &lt;a href="http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/slsj_info/data/halloween/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-113092528479065885?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/113092528479065885/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=113092528479065885&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113092528479065885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113092528479065885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/11/halloween.html' title='Hallowe&apos;en!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-113026091919207338</id><published>2005-10-25T18:12:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-25T18:24:28.086+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A blue/pink/red/white cactus maybe?</title><content type='html'>Go on, give it a go:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the picture in the previous post (in Dutch), you see the wonderful, artistic picture my 3-year old neighbour drew for me. I challenge you to tell me WHAT it represents. Preferably without looking at previous comments, just your first intuitive perception of the image. &lt;br /&gt;Then, add a comment to this post with your suggestion, and maybe even commenting on other suggestions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click on the image to enlarge (and please ignore our funny faces).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(I will, of course, arrange to meet the original painter to ask her for the final solution)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-113026091919207338?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/113026091919207338/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=113026091919207338&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113026091919207338'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113026091919207338'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/10/bluepinkredwhite-cactus-maybe.html' title='A blue/pink/red/white cactus maybe?'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-113015854703838468</id><published>2005-10-24T13:39:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-24T18:19:20.256+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Een raadsel!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Een paar weken terug zijn mijn ouders langsgekomen. We hebben ze een heerlijk rustig weekendje aangeboden met wat doe-het-zelf werk, en een snapshot van toeristenactiviteiten. Klinkt als t ideale weekendje nietwaar? We hebben lekker geluncht in "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" href="http://www.victoriabeeston.co.uk/"&gt;de beste pub van Nottingham(shire)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;", Jon heeft Indisch gekookt, zaterdag doe-het-zelven en zondag een bezoekje aan Lincoln gebracht. En heel veeel gegeten...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Zie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" href="http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album=UPZBGJPU"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;voor de foto's (veel van ons appartement!) die mijn ouders gemaakt hebben tijdens dat weekend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Naast de verwennerij en het prachtige bestekset, hebben ze ook nog een ander bijzonder cadeautje meegenomen. Onverwacht, ook voor de schilderes zelf waarschijnlijk, heeft dit cadeautje al tot vele discussies geleid! Het betreft een kleurrijke schilderij, gemaakt door mijn 5-jarige buurmeisje Eke (zie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" href="http://depijltjes.blogspot.com/"&gt;de blog van haar moeder&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;voor een dappere Eke op de fiets!). Een mooi schilderij van een ...? Tja... van wat eigenlijk? En zo wordt de vraag aan iedere nieuwe bezoeker aan ons appartement opnieuw gesteld. Een soort inktvlek experiment dus, alleen dan zonder de onnodige analyses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Dus voor de lezer nu ook het raadsel: wat zie jij hierin? Laat je oplossing achter via een 'comment' hieronder!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;(tip: klik op de foto voor een vergroting en negeer die suffe koppen van ons erbij!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/1600/Eke_schilderijtje1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1007/905/320/Eke_schilderijtje1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-113015854703838468?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/113015854703838468/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=113015854703838468&amp;isPopup=true' title='14 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113015854703838468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/113015854703838468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/10/een-raadsel.html' title='Een raadsel!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-112894034202110724</id><published>2005-10-10T11:26:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-11T15:04:11.506+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Eerste blik op de nieuwe Harry Potter!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Neem alvast &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" href="http://bieslog.vpro.nl/programma/bieslog/news.jsp?news=24393904"&gt;een kijkje&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt; in 1 van de twee drukkerijen die de taak op zich hebben gekregen om de 800.000 exemplaren van de nieuwe Harry Potter te drukken! Kijk hoe gemakkelijk Wim de Bie erin slaagt om de medewerker te overtuigen van zijn onschuldige bedoelingen ("nou ok dan, als je het alleen maar op het Internet laat zien en je belooft niet in te zoomen, dan is het goed"). Grappig dat het Internet blijkbaar niet als een massaal medium wordt gezien...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-112894034202110724?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/112894034202110724/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=112894034202110724&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112894034202110724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112894034202110724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/10/eerste-blik-op-de-nieuwe-harry-potter.html' title='Eerste blik op de nieuwe Harry Potter!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-112850743509904970</id><published>2005-10-05T11:13:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-05T11:17:15.100+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Photos from lab-retreat - Scotland</title><content type='html'>For the anglophones who couldn't read the last post but may be curious about &lt;a href="http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/slsj_info/wdata/chronicle/2005/09_15_lab_retreat_Scottland_2/"&gt;beautiful panoramas&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/slsj_info/wdata/chronicle/2005/09_15_lab_retreat_Scottland/"&gt;other stunning photos&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://joyisinsharing.blogspot.com/"&gt;Petr&lt;/a&gt;, taken during our trip to the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Nevis"&gt;Ben Nevis&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-112850743509904970?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/112850743509904970/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=112850743509904970&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112850743509904970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112850743509904970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/10/photos-from-lab-retreat-scotland.html' title='Photos from lab-retreat - Scotland'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-112827411744557158</id><published>2005-10-02T17:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-10-25T18:33:36.163+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ben de Giftige</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Terug van weggeweest!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/45571542/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/28/45571542_8b57aab1f7_m.jpg" alt="Ben Nevis de Grote" height="180" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hier zie je ons de enige echte Ben Nevis bewonderen, die we op dat moment net beklommen hebben samen met collega's. We zijn namelijk een paar weken terug met het B&amp;BC op de zogenaamde "lab retreat" geweest. Met z'n dertienen vertrokken we op donderdagochtend vroeg, twee auto's en een busje volbeladen, op weg naar Schotland. Vanaf Nottingham is dat nogal een behoorlijke rit, en we hebben het op de heenweg dus ook rustig aan gedaan. De weg gaat via de 'Scottish Corner' naar Glasgow, en nog iets verder noordelijk waar we in de Schotse Hooglanden terecht komen (Oh... daar waar die harige koeien vandaan komen dus!).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;'t Was geen kippie: Ben Nevis is 1344 meter hoog, en het pad zelf is 16 km lang (heen en terug). In een lekker tempo en niet teveel en lange pauzes, kun je het in zo'n vijf uur wel doen. Wij niet. We deden het heerlijk rustig aan, de fotografen en fotogenieken genoten van alle kodak-momenten, Yohan op de rug van Dany en Manon mocht ook af en toe zijn beentjes strekken, en dan NOG is het behoorlijk uitputtend. Het weer speelde ook goed mee, hoewel alles op de top goed mistig was, en het zelf lichtjes sneeuwde. Tot zo'n 1000 meter hoogte hadden we nog goed uitzicht.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;(latere discussies gingen nogal eens over de weersomstandigheden van die betreffende top: een bevriende Schot verdedigde heftig dat het op de top echt wel vaker dan 4x per jaar zonnig was. Een zoektocht op wikipedia verteld me echter dat &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Nevis"&gt;het er 1 dag per jaar zonnig is&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;, en geeft zelfs een &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2315729.stm"&gt;referentie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;. Geen idee waarom die referentie daar is toegevoegd, want dit lijkt me erg onwaarschijnlijk. Toch even gauw die referentie checken dus. En ja hoor: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;geen enkel woord&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt; over het weer op de top van de Ben Nevis! Hopelijk was de schrijver geen wetenschapper...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;In een folder over de Ben Nevis, wordt verteld dat de naam heel waarschijnlijk is afgeleid van 'venomous', giftig. Het eerste deel van de naam, 'Ben', is het Galische woord voor berg of piek.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Het weekend was echt de moeite waard en absoluut het soort van team building waar Tomas het liefste voor gaat op de door hem half-gefinanceerde lab-retreats. Tijdens voorgaande tripjes was het voornamelijk de wijn die tekortschoot, terwijl het nu voornamelijk onze condities waren die tekortschoten, en er wijn overbleef. Ook de zijne: die maandag had hij zijn inaugurele toespraak ter ere van zijn professor titel. Waarschijnlijk waren het alleen zijn lab-members die het zagen, maar hij had toch echt even moeite om uit zijn stoel te komen en naar het podium te lopen...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Voor geweldige foto's check de webspace van mijn collega Petr: &lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" href="http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/slsj_info/wdata/chronicle/2005/09_15_lab_retreat_Scottland_2/"&gt;panorama's&lt;/a&gt; en &lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" href="http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/slsj_info/wdata/chronicle/2005/09_15_lab_retreat_Scottland/"&gt;andere foto's&lt;/a&gt; met commentaar. Ik heb ook een link naar &lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" href="http://joyisinsharing.blogspot.com/"&gt;zijn blog&lt;/a&gt; toegevoegd als je geinteresseerd bent in zijn blik op de trip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* laatste aanpassing; de wiki pagina referentie is inmiddels gecorrigeerd. De referentie vermeld inderdaad dat de Ben Nevis "cloud-covered for approximately 355 days", maar in hoeverre dat meer humoristisch geschreven is, is niet duidelijk. Kijk &lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" href="http://www.visit-fortwilliam.co.uk/webcam/index.html"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; voor de Ben Nevis webcam, dan kun je het zelf controleren!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-112827411744557158?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/112827411744557158/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=112827411744557158&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112827411744557158'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112827411744557158'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/10/ben-de-giftige.html' title='Ben de Giftige'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-112474759393496522</id><published>2005-08-22T22:46:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-08-22T22:54:26.353+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Jon Stewart - The Daily Show</title><content type='html'>If you have a little time to spare, take a look at &lt;a href="http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/videos/jon_stewart/index.jhtml"&gt;the daily show with Jon Stewart&lt;/a&gt; for a refreshing look on the certain newschannels in the United States (Fox news, CNN), Bush and others. Try to look up the one called "Bush vs Bush". Hilarious!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;De satirische humor van Jon Stewart lijkt op die van Jack Spijkerman in Kopspijkers, maar is veel meer gericht op de 24 uurs nieuwszenders in de Verenigde Staten zoals de CNN. De moeite meer dan waard, maar helaas zonder ondertiteling...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-112474759393496522?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/112474759393496522/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=112474759393496522&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112474759393496522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112474759393496522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/08/jon-stewart-daily-show.html' title='Jon Stewart - The Daily Show'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-112474473094794787</id><published>2005-08-22T21:40:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-08-22T22:05:30.956+01:00</updated><title type='text'>NOS versus BBC</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Om een beetje van twee walletjes te blijven eten, houd ik naast de BBC news website ook die van het NOS journaal vaak goed in de gaten. En zo af en toe valt het me dan op dat de NOS meer op de hoogte is, of in ieder geval meer vertelt dan de BBC. Bijvoorbeeld het verhaal over het mysterie van de Piano Man op de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4172662.stm"&gt;BBC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt; en &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://www.nos.nl/nosjournaal/artikelen/2005/8/22/220805_pianoman.html"&gt;NOS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt; website. Ten tijde van het schrijven van dit stukje, wordt het je op de NOS website al gauw duidelijk dat dit heel waarschijnlijk een hele slimme vent geweest is die gebruik heeft gemaakt van zijn ervaringen met psychiatrische patienten om er zelf eentje te spelen, en zo een tijdje onderdak en voeding heeft kunnen krijgen van het Engelse NHS (National Health Service).  Geen spoor op de BBC van deze suggestie. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Over het algemeen vind ik de BBC echter een goede en meestal objectieve nieuwsbron, en zeker veel wereldlijker dan de NOS, waar je nog altijd eerder een koninklijke gebeurtenis op de voorpagina ziet prijken dan een verkiezing in de machtigste staat van de wereld.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Hoewel er laatst wel weer wat vertraging plaatst vond. Al een week geleden hoorden wij (= Nederlanders!) via o.a. de NOS dat alle kippen en gevolgte binnen gehouden moesten worden (ik stelde mij voor dat al die kippen en hanen in het Juliana Park in Utrecht naar binnen moeten worden gelokt...). Nu pas verscheen daar een &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4172182.stm"&gt;artikel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt; over op de BBC, en meteen daarna een &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4173620.stm"&gt;artikel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt; waarin wordt gesuggereert dat het een beetje een overdreven maatregel is, die de UK zeker niet nodig heeft (ondanks een aanbeveling van een Aberdeense professor). Die Continentalen toch! Oh nee, de Engelsen zeggen nog het allerliefste: Those Europeans! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Hier is een heerlijk logische redenering van een Engelsman dat zogenaamd het bewijs levert dat de UK toch niets kan overkomen:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"And don't forget, back in the 2003 outbreak in the Netherlands - a very serious outbreak, which destroyed a fifth of their poultry population, much closer to home than the current outbreaks - we didn't take these measures that are now being suggested by some people that we should take - and we didn't have any outbreak".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-112474473094794787?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/112474473094794787/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=112474473094794787&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112474473094794787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112474473094794787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/08/nos-versus-bbc.html' title='NOS versus BBC'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-112385597760350015</id><published>2005-08-12T14:29:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-08-12T16:12:54.363+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Weekendje Nederland</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Vorig weekend was ik weer even in Nederland! Wat gaat het snel, zo een paar dagen, had zoveel willen doen... Maar ik denk dat ik 'gerichte' weekendjes ga besteden in Nederland, en deze was bedoeld voor mijn ouders. Jon en ik vertrokken op donderdagmiddag met het vliegtuig naar Nederlands, waar mijn ouders ons stonden op te wachten (neus tegen het raam). Na een andijviestamppot hebben we het niet laat gemaakt omdat de jetlag ons uiteraard had uitgeput, en vielen we als een blok in slaap in Hesters' oude slaapkamer (de nu voor gasten ingerichte zolderkamer, aan te raden!).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/33213932/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos22.flickr.com/33213932_340b70fc09_m.jpg" alt="Elvis" height="240" width="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;De volgende dag heerlijk uitgeslapen en een Hollands ontbijtje (wat dat dan ook mag zijn) genoten, om vervolgens uren in de tuin te staren, mijmerend wat te doen: de regen hield maar niet op. Uiteindelijk kwam het neer op een bioscoopfilm,&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367594/"&gt;Charlie and the Chocolate Factory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;. Leuke film van Tim Burton (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319061/"&gt;Big Fish&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099487/"&gt;Edward Scissorhands&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt; e.a.), met vooral Johnny Depp als het grootste pluspunt. Afsluitend een wandeling door het oude centrum van Utrecht en een diner in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://www.lebibelot.nl/"&gt;Le Bibelot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;, een heerlijk relaxte vakantiedag!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/33213882/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos23.flickr.com/33213882_427ad54ed0_m.jpg" alt="Maarsseveen" height="180" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;De volgende dag zag het weer er iets beter uit en maakten we een fietstocht in de Vechtstreek - Maarssen, Breukelen, Loenen, Loosdrechtse Plassen, Tienhoven, Maarsseveen - leuk om dat weer eens te doen. Ook kwamen Hester en Daniel online, zoodat zij ook Jon even konden bekijken met de webcam en de gebruikelijke grapjes werden al gauw uitgewisseld. Het klikte dus! 's Avonds konden we de lege magen weer vullen tijdens het steengrillen met de buren, inclusief Shireen. Jon had nog nooit ge-steengrild, maar het beviel hem gelukkig goed (net als dat Daniel het nog nooit had gedaan geloof ik, voor hij naar NL kwam, toch Hes?). Dus zo hebben ook de buren Jon kunnen goedkeuren.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/33214165/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos21.flickr.com/33214165_e0905daa78_m.jpg" alt="steengrillen met de buurtjes" height="135" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Maar er was nog een dag... jaja, ik had toestemming gevraagd om dan tenminste 1 middagje in Utrecht te kunnen besteden om een paar vrienden te kunnen ontmoeten. Janneke, Anne en Maya zijn toen gauw naar Utrecht afgereisd (zeer korte reis voor Janneke, iets te lang voor het vakantieoord van Aline, helaas ... ) om de nieuwe aanswinst te komen bekijken.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/33214108/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos22.flickr.com/33214108_fecb727a37.jpg" alt="Anne" height="500" width="432" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;In Utrecht hebben we eerst geluncht, een georganiseerde wandeling gemaakt (de stegentocht) en vervolgens zijn we gaan schuilen voor de buien in het &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://www.louishartloopercomplex.nl/"&gt;Louis Hartlooper Complex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;. Dat is een tot cinema omgebouwd oud politiebureau, in Amsterdamse stijl, aan het Ledig Erf. Erg leuke cafe's en de betere films, ingeleid door filmkenners -dat was even de reclame pauze-. Ook hebben we onder het wandelen een paar muzikale boten bekeken, georganiseerd door &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://www.culturelezondagen.nl/"&gt;Culturele Zondagen Utrecht&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;, en wat gedronken op een terrasje aan de werf. Ik denk dat we na die zondag er zeker van kunnen zijn dat Utrecht een plaatsje heeft veroverd in het hart van Jon (zolang er nog plek voor mij blijft is alles ok ;-)! Met veel dank aan de culturele inspiratie van Janneke!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Hier is een wat minder typische, maar niet minder mooie blik op de gracht van Utrecht:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/33214132/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos21.flickr.com/33214132_6cda7fda8f.jpg" alt="uitzicht op gracht" height="500" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Bedankt allemaal voor een heerlijk weekendje! Volgend weekend wordt... misschien Maastricht? En zullen we ook gelijk maar een weekendje boeken met alle klimfanaten in Fontainebleau, ofzo? :-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-112385597760350015?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/112385597760350015/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=112385597760350015&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112385597760350015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112385597760350015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/08/weekendje-nederland.html' title='Weekendje Nederland'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-112308082875878245</id><published>2005-08-03T15:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-08-03T17:39:32.676+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Boohoo!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/30911435/" title="photo sharing" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos21.flickr.com/30911435_ce4d30cf9c_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Celine left us... back to Montreal.&lt;br /&gt;Here's a nice picture of her together with my mom, Bean and me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We miss you here Bumblebee!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-112308082875878245?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/112308082875878245/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=112308082875878245&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112308082875878245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112308082875878245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/08/boohoo.html' title='Boohoo!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-112262953413163076</id><published>2005-07-29T10:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-07-29T10:46:20.790+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Can't wait!</title><content type='html'>Believe it or not, but the one and only &lt;a href="http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/11162004.htm"&gt;Jarvis Cocker&lt;/a&gt; (leadsinger &lt;a href="http://www.pulponline.com/"&gt;Pulp&lt;/a&gt;) will compose the soundtrack for &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330373/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9MXxmYj11fHBuPTB8cT1oYXJyeSBwb3R0ZXJ8aHRtbD0xfG5tPTE_;fc=4;ft=20;fm=1"&gt;the new Harry Potter movie&lt;/a&gt;, coming out fall this year, and chose, among others, &lt;a href="http://www.franzferdinand.co.uk/"&gt;Franz Ferdinand&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;(And I think I just broke my record of number of links in one sentence)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-112262953413163076?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/112262953413163076/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=112262953413163076&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112262953413163076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112262953413163076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/07/cant-wait.html' title='Can&apos;t wait!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-112232660192456925</id><published>2005-07-25T20:57:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-07-26T13:39:13.770+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Stanford Prison Experiment</title><content type='html'>Yesterday we watched a movie that turned out to be more upsetting than expected. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Das Experiment&lt;/span&gt; is rather loosely and yet tightly based on the famous Stanford Prison Experiment. Dr. Zimbardo, the main brain behind the Prison experiment, randomly devided 18 students into two groups and assigned the one to be the guards and the other to be the prisoners. The guards were supposed to control the prisoners for two weeks, in a lab built prison. Very soon though, the situation got out of hand and the experiment needed to be ended. "&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,geneva;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.prisonexp.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;In only a few  days, our guards became sadistic and our prisoners became depressed and showed signs of extreme stress&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The movie started off with some romance and finished with an escalation including multiple murders. Both of these hollywood-ish contributions to the movie were completely unnecessary, and rather made a movie that could have been so good, bad. The message had already been passed on before things got too far though, and I had a very very bad night. Not just because of having seen a violent and scary movie, but because &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;while watching&lt;/span&gt; you realise how extremely real this is. You wake up from that nightmare when the guards start to take the experimenters as prisoners. Right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most shocking thing, however, came later. We were curious about how far the Stanford Prison Experiment really got before escalating, and looked it up on the web. Beside a website devoted to the experiment, there is a link to (now professor) &lt;a href="http://www.zimbardo.com/"&gt;Zimbardo's site&lt;/a&gt;. First thing you read is in red font in the middle of the screen: &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Currently Hot!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;It is a bit weird to see an academic website claiming to be hot, let alone a professor's website being hot. On top of that, it was the website of the professor that created one of the most cruel experiments ever designed, claiming to be hot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you enter the website, you find a link to the Prison Experiment. There, it says literally: "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;It all began one warm Sunday in August, 1971...&lt;/span&gt;" . Who's movie is this actually? Has it ever really happened? Or is this all one big joke?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a lot of information on the subsequent page with a slideshow of the story. Proudly presented by Zimbardo. The moviemakers have followed some parts of the story very narrowly, it appears. Including the scene where the request of one of the prisoners, to get out, is being turned down, more or less.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besides the cruel and unethical aspects of this experiment, there was another big flaw to be found in the movie and in Stanford. The prisoners behaved like real prisoners, guards like guards that use humiliation and aggression and most of all, Zimbardo behaved as the prison warden. In his explanation he frequently expressed himself as having been totally in his role of prison warden. He invented, created, and led the game. That is exactly where he went too far. If trying to experimentally and moreover, scientifically study prison behaviour, you should observe and not interfere. Or end the game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zimbardo is researcher that wanted to reach this one goal by going too far, this one experiment without thinking about the personal lives of the participants. In the same way as his experimental prison was extremely similar to other prisons, he was extremely similar to an evil prison ward, or worse, an influential person with just one goal: war, punishment and torture. Oh but don't forget: this was 'just' an experiment. Or a game. Or a movie.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-112232660192456925?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/112232660192456925/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=112232660192456925&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112232660192456925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112232660192456925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/07/stanford-prison-experiment.html' title='The Stanford Prison Experiment'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-112196234871624350</id><published>2005-07-21T17:09:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-07-21T17:12:28.726+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Dutch proud, part 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;"Sixteen swimmers were under the two hour mark, but it was Van Dyk who erased all doubt about the result when she made the last turn around the huge orange inflatable buoy. Few sports fans need a reminder that the color orange means something special to the Dutch. Nothing says "get going, finish strong" quite like those bright orange buoys seemingly positioned near the finish to cheer the Dutch swimmer's final sprint and perhaps to say 'thank you' for the opportunity to chart her course to the finish line so many times during a remarkable career."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Open water swimming report of  the women 10km, &lt;a href="http://www.fina.org/montreal05.html"&gt;FINA world championships&lt;/a&gt; in Montreal&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-112196234871624350?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/112196234871624350/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=112196234871624350&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112196234871624350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112196234871624350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/07/dutch-proud-part-2.html' title='Dutch proud, part 2'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-112185410016418084</id><published>2005-07-20T10:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-07-20T15:44:31.153+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Nieuwsfoto van de week</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Trouw probeer ik dagelijks nog het &lt;a href="http://www.nos.nl/nosjournaal/voorpagina/index.html"&gt;NOS&lt;/a&gt; nieuws bij te houden, naast de wat meer mondiale nieuwspagina van de &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/default.stm"&gt;BBC&lt;/a&gt;. En zo af en toe zijn er leuke foto's te vinden, zoals deze:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/27301154/" title="Photo Sharing" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos22.flickr.com/27301154_c1ed8ee437.jpg" alt="Hansje het gansje waagt ook een kansje (deel 1)" height="224" width="269" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This picture is taken during the '&lt;a href="http://www.4daagse.nl/index.asp?taal=en&amp;pagina=homepagina&amp;amp;interactivepage="&gt;Vierdaagse&lt;/a&gt;' in Nijmegen. During this event, more than 40,000 people join in for 20, 30 or 40 km walking per day, among which a lot of soldiers from different countries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the short period I lived in Nijmegen, I really felt at home. That was mainly due to the nice people I met in the centre where I spent most of my time. The city itself, however, is partly very old and beautiful, and partly filled with ugly architecture from after WW2. Small but cute and hosting the best cinema in the Netherlands: het &lt;a href="http://www.lux-nijmegen.nl/index-frame.html"&gt;Lux&lt;/a&gt; theater.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-112185410016418084?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/112185410016418084/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=112185410016418084&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112185410016418084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112185410016418084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/07/nieuwsfoto-van-de-week.html' title='Nieuwsfoto van de week'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-112072596361603183</id><published>2005-07-07T09:35:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-07-08T17:56:37.353+01:00</updated><title type='text'>En dan nu... het weer!</title><content type='html'>Just like &lt;a href="http://fullofbean.blogspot.com/"&gt;Bean&lt;/a&gt;, I'd like to remember the good weather we've had this springtime, rather than looking outside right now. Doesn't this one make you dream:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/22229159/" title="Photo Sharing" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos17.flickr.com/22229159_fe90d94e6c_m.jpg" alt="Megan" height="145" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Aan de andere kant, de wat optimistischere kant, kunnen we niet klagen. Het lijkt erop dat het nooit &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;echt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt; veel regent. Het miezert (zoals vandaag), of het regent even hard. Daarna is het weer gewoon even bewolkt en vochtig als altijd. Soms trekt de bewolking even open, en rennen we allemaal naar buiten voor die kleine zonnestraal. Hoewel, ook dat is een overdrijving. Zoals ik al zei, hebben we een prachtige lente gehad. En het is nu zomer!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-112072596361603183?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/112072596361603183/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=112072596361603183&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112072596361603183'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/112072596361603183'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/07/en-dan-nu-het-weer.html' title='En dan nu... het weer!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-111999848103844938</id><published>2005-06-28T23:41:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-07-08T18:03:22.530+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Wandeling in de Peak met Janneke</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/22232166/" title="photo sharing" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos15.flickr.com/22232166_cbdb617612_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Neem gauw een kijkje op de fotosite... weer een hoop &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/sets/158845/"target="ext"&gt;nieuwe foto's&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;! Een paar&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/22229007/in/set-158845/"target="ext"&gt;klimfoto's&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; van alweer even geleden, en ook veel nieuwe foto's van toen Janneke op bezoek kwam. Natuurlijk zijn we even het Peak District ingedoken, en hebben we ons verder &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/22231909/in/set-158845/"target="ext"&gt;misdragen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;, maar bovenal zeer&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/22231778/in/set-158845/"target="ext"&gt;vermaakt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-111999848103844938?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/111999848103844938/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=111999848103844938&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111999848103844938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111999848103844938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/06/wandeling-in-de-peak-met-janneke.html' title='Wandeling in de Peak met Janneke'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-111942937691496978</id><published>2005-06-22T09:32:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-06-22T09:36:16.923+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A historical bit of Snot</title><content type='html'>For all my visitors, interested in historical facts of Nottingham, &lt;a href="http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/02-08/a-juicy-bit-of-snot-nottingham-england.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;'s an article that describes some history of Nottingham, from the castle to -almost- my frontdoor!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-111942937691496978?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/111942937691496978/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=111942937691496978&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111942937691496978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111942937691496978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/06/historical-bit-of-snot.html' title='A historical bit of Snot'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-111927853693616289</id><published>2005-06-20T15:25:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-06-23T22:29:18.826+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Dutch proud</title><content type='html'>Each Dutch person going abroad will sooner or later be confronted with remarks about *typical Dutch* things, such as smoking pot and redlight districts. They are all based on people's general view on our supposedly liberal country (I guess I can't complain that much, as I would certainly prefer having to say "no" ten times a day when someone asks me if everybody smokes pot in my country of origin, over having to admit there are indeed more people voting Republican than Democrat).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It makes us believe other people are so naive about our country. But then, sometimes it is the other way around. Recently I have been teaching Dutch to a lecturer from the music department, who is in return teaching me about music and political movements around 1960 in the Netherlands. I am embarrassed to know so little of these topics, so I gratefully swallow all the new information. We actually do have some interesting history!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take the &lt;a href="http://pdxnorml.org/HT_provos_0190.html"&gt;Provos&lt;/a&gt;, for example, of whom apparently we have to be thankful for our drug policies. This particular example is interesting: I don't remember being taught or told about this nevertheless influential movement before. A quick look into wikipedia confirms my suspicions. The &lt;a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provo"&gt;Dutch page&lt;/a&gt; about the provos is much, much smaller than the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provo"&gt;English&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provos"&gt;Portugese&lt;/a&gt;(!) pages. No wonder others know more about some parts of our history than we do. Are we afraid this could be yet another source for a 'Dutch joke'? Well, the sticking-your-head-in-the-sand technique is definitely not working (probably making things worse, say... &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Dutch denial&lt;/span&gt;?)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-111927853693616289?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/111927853693616289/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=111927853693616289&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111927853693616289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111927853693616289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/06/dutch-proud.html' title='Dutch proud'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-111865717920074814</id><published>2005-06-13T10:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-06-13T11:06:19.206+01:00</updated><title type='text'>update</title><content type='html'>It has been a while... and I will not give a large update here (even if the title might suggest so). This is just to let you know that I am still alive and kicking!&lt;br /&gt;Went for a trip to the &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marije/sets/158842/"&gt;Netherlands and Belgium&lt;/a&gt;, then enjoyed the company of Joshua and a week later Janneke and her friend Erica. As you can see I put up the pictures from the trip to the continent, other photos and more stories will follow soon.&lt;br /&gt;If you haven't noticed yet: the pictures are organised in sets. There are three sets (at the moment): Nottingham, On the Continent and Montreal 2004. In there, the pictures are organised in a more chronological fashion then on the homepage. To make browsing easier...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-111865717920074814?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/111865717920074814/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=111865717920074814&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111865717920074814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111865717920074814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/06/update.html' title='update'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-111671742056084627</id><published>2005-05-22T00:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-07-08T18:04:00.266+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Bike trip around the power station</title><content type='html'>&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76779938@N00/14981963/"target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2px solid" alt="" src="http://photos11.flickr.com/14981963_cfba9212ae_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px;font-size:0;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76779938@N00/14981963/"target="ext"&gt;Tea Rooms&lt;/a&gt; along the Trent River &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last weekend Martin was visiting from Montreal. On saturday we left for a bike trip together with Celine and Petr. Click on the picture for more views on the trip.&lt;br /&gt;Besides the bike trip we went out dancing, had another bbq, relaxed in the Wollaton Park and had lovely diners. It was great to have you around Martin, come back soon!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-111671742056084627?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/111671742056084627/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=111671742056084627&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111671742056084627'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111671742056084627'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/05/bike-trip-around-power-station.html' title='Bike trip around the power station'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-111609266252904637</id><published>2005-05-14T18:44:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-05-31T23:22:23.513+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Hoera! Hoera!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76779938@N00/13847211/"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2px solid" alt="" src="http://photos9.flickr.com/13847211_07df00b266_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gefeliciteerd Martijn en Annegien!!&lt;br /&gt;Heel jammer dat ik er niet bij kon zijn, maar ik heb aan jullie gedacht. Heeel veel jaren gewenst samen, en dat jullie maar gauw (met z'n tweeen of drieen ;-) ) een lekker Engels ontbijtje mogen komen halen! Dan gaan we gelijk ff boulderen in the Peak District.&lt;br /&gt;Veel liefs Marije&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-111609266252904637?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/111609266252904637/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=111609266252904637&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111609266252904637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111609266252904637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/05/hoera-hoera.html' title='Hoera! Hoera!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-111580196701637002</id><published>2005-05-11T09:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-05-11T11:07:51.973+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Een kleine (fiets) handleiding voor Nottingham</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Stel je voor: al neuriend fiets je richting de stad, keurig het krampachtig aangelegde fietspad volgend. Om het zo veilig mogelijk te maken voor de fietsers, wordt je omgeleid, en hoef je niet naast de autos te fietsen en over de brug te klimmen. In plaats daarvan ga je onder een brug door waarbij je flink moet bukken (je duimt dat je rugzak maar niet blijft haken, en je ziet even een flits van een daaropvolgende salto) en kom je op een pad naast het kanaal dat 's avonds onverlicht is. Ach, het heeft wel wat romantisch. Dan voegt het fietspad zich bij de weg, op de stoep naast het voetpad, keurig afgescheiden door een rode kleur. Maar pas op! Na zo'n tien meter wordt je voor de keuze gezet: ga je gebukt onder een verkeersbord door of maak je een plotselinge bocht over het voetpad? Je voelt je avontuurlijk dus je besluit voor de eerste (na het overleven van die levensgevaarlijke brug kan je deze ook wel aan).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al gauw begin je jezelf af te vragen welke idioot hier de fietspaden heeft aangelegd. Eén ding is zeker: diegene heeft zelf nauwelijks op een fiets gezeten. Voor je je echter kan vedwalen in een dagdroom fiets je bijna tegen een enorme boom op, pas dan kom je erachter dat ja, de witte lijn van het fietspad gaat inderdaad in een onnatuurlijk scherpe bocht om de boom heen!  Dat daardoor het fietspad voor een paar meter lang even maar tien centimeter breed is, trek je je maar niets van aan: er loopt toch even niemand op het voetpad. En anders springt die toch wel opzij. Verbaasd denk je nog even over de situatie na; ja, er stond toch echt een tekening van een fiets, ter indicatie dat dit echt een fietspad is, en wel recht voor de boom. Alsof het een uitdaging is: als we volhouden dat dit een fietspad is, zal de boom vanzelf toegeven!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even verderop steekt het fietspad de weg over, en vervolgt het avontuur zich voor de afwisseling aan de andere kant van de weg. Ook hier begroet je weer enorme bomen op je pad, maar dit keer verdunt het fietspad zich niet, maar gaat er met een boog omheen (onmogelijk te nemen op redelijke snelheid). Het lijkt erop dat de bomen winnen: de wortels komen door het asfalt heen, dus je fiets wordt aardig op de proef gesteld. Maar wacht eens... tussen de geparkeerde auto's en de weg loopt een rode streep, alsof het een fietpad is... En inderdaad, misschien ter compensatie voor de geirriteerde fietsers loopt er plotseling een 'extra' fietspad dat geen uitdaging aangaat met de natuur of verkeersbord, en gewoon recht zo die gaat (afgezien van een paar slingers op de stoep en er weer af) de stad in wijst. Ik gebruik met opzet het woord wijzen: net voor je 'city centre' in fietst, lees je letterlijk het woord: END. Zoek het vanaf hier zelf maar uit. Grinnikend fiets je verder, en bedenk je je dat dat misschien maar beter is ook.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Iemand vertelde me laatst nog dat Nottingham een tiental jaar geleden deelnam aan een soort experiment waarbij fietspaden werden aangelegd en werd bekeken hoe dat het fietsgedrag stimuleerde. Ondanks de vermakelijke onhandigheden die hiermee gepaard gingen, kon niets de fietsers afschrikken en zie je toch behoorlijk wat 'collega's' op het fietspad. Allemaal veel beter uitgerust dan ik; gelukkig heb ik afgeleerd te grinniken als je iemand in vol ornaat ziet aankomen: naast de gebruikelijke helm dragen ze het felgele reflecterende gilet het liefst ook overdag. Ze kennen hier ook alleen mountainbikes, vaak ook nog zonder ketting beschermer, zodat ze er nog eens extra charmant uitzien door hoog opgetrokken sokken over de broek of de reflecterende band om de enkel. Oh, wat ben ik blij met mijn Hollandsche fietsje met spatborden, kettingkast, dynamo, hoefijzerslot en toch nog sportief uiterlijk!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Als je helemaal tot aan hier bent gekomen met lezen (ik voel me gevleid!), neem dan nog even een kijkje op deze &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://www.17beechroad.freeserve.co.uk/WarringtonCycleCampaign/facility-of-the-month/index.htm"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt; (lees vooral ook even de bijschriften van de foto's). Ik ben dus toch niet de enige die zich hierover verbaasd!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-111580196701637002?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/111580196701637002/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=111580196701637002&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111580196701637002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111580196701637002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/05/een-kleine-fiets-handleiding-voor.html' title='Een kleine (fiets) handleiding voor Nottingham'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-111556949901020900</id><published>2005-05-08T17:24:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-05-31T23:23:13.146+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Arcade Fire in Birmingham</title><content type='html'>&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76779938@N00/12933373/"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: rgb(0,0,0) 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: rgb(0,0,0) 2px solid; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(0,0,0) 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(0,0,0) 2px solid" alt="" src="http://photos9.flickr.com/12933373_8ef455fecd_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px;font-size:0;" &gt;Arcade Fire in actie!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Luke, we could attend a concert of Arcade Fire in Birmingham. &lt;a href="http://www.arcadefire.com/"&gt;Arcade Fire&lt;/a&gt; is a band from Canada/USA that is very promising. Their show was great, the audience got so enthusiastic that the atmosphere was excellent. Such a pity they were put in a small corner of "The Academy", where no more than 100 people could stand in. While a few days earlier they played for 2000 people in Manchester!&lt;br /&gt;Things were getting cosy, but it didn't stop people from jumping and screaming the lyrics or sounds that they recognised. Even people not knowing the band were clearly enjoying the show. Their music is creative, and I loved the presence of the violins. In case you're interested: On the 11th of May they play in &lt;a href="http://www.paradiso.nl/index2.php"&gt;Paradiso&lt;/a&gt;, Amsterdam, and the day after in &lt;a href="http://www.nighttown.nl/"&gt;Nighttown&lt;/a&gt;, Rotterdam. Hurry for the tickets though, they are sold out quickly.&lt;br /&gt;See my pictures for more pictures from this fun weekend in Birmingham with Jon, Catriona and Luke. We spent half a day in Birmingham and then went on for a short visit to Stratford-upon-Avon. Very Shakespeary and touristy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-111556949901020900?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/111556949901020900/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=111556949901020900&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111556949901020900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111556949901020900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/05/arcade-fire-in-birmingham.html' title='Arcade Fire in Birmingham'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-111514170491724524</id><published>2005-05-03T18:35:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-05-31T23:23:38.026+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Plumptre Patio BBQ</title><content type='html'>&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76779938@N00/12041198/"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2px solid" alt="" src="http://photos7.flickr.com/12041198_1006885c2c_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last weekend we celebrated the official opening of our shared patio. It was a great evening with lots of new friends and colleagues, and last but not least: my parents! They were here for the weekend, together with all my stuff (eg bike and dishes). I also secretly celebrated the official end of my Psychology degree. In short, good times in Notts!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-111514170491724524?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/111514170491724524/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=111514170491724524&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111514170491724524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111514170491724524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/05/plumptre-patio-bbq.html' title='Plumptre Patio BBQ'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-111412288431580038</id><published>2005-04-21T23:34:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-05-31T23:24:30.826+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Hard work in Sheffield</title><content type='html'>&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76779938@N00/10306123/"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2px solid" alt="" src="http://photos8.flickr.com/10306123_bbd112f37c_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px;font-size:0;" &gt;At the Sheffield trainstation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I managed to post the bike-trip pictures on my flickr account (last month I only found out about their monthly uploading limit after uploading tons of large sized pictures). Feel free to browse through! Warning: shocking contents... Let's say we got a bit slaphappy and drunk from the hilly bits. This photo you see here was a nice start of our trip. We should have one of those on the door of our lab! I wonder if anybody would ever dare to come in for a cup of coffee though. So, enjoy the pictures, and I'll promise to post more soon.&lt;br /&gt;ttfn (tataa for now)&lt;br /&gt;MJ&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-111412288431580038?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/111412288431580038/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=111412288431580038&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111412288431580038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111412288431580038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/04/hard-work-in-sheffield.html' title='Hard work in Sheffield'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-111313246983248960</id><published>2005-04-10T12:23:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-06-16T16:43:19.616+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Trip report [2]: over hoe we van de heuvel af werden geblazen</title><content type='html'>Peak District, The Edale Skyline Walk, 17.5 km (if completed)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mooie wandeling, of de hoogste pieken in de Peak, 17,5 km, echt geweldig mooi. Maarrr... toen we eenmaal op de eerste piek waren, voelden we pas hoe sterk de wind was. Op dat moment scheen ook nog de zon, maar je raadt het al: die wind nam een hoop regenwolken met zich mee en binnen no time werden we besproeit. Het regende niet hard, maar wel horizontaal: erg vervelend dus. De wind was ook erg onprettig, aangezien de hele wandeling over de 'skyline' liep. Een half uur later waren we min of meer onderkoeld, dus besloten we de eerstvolgende weg naar beneden te lopen en af te snijden richting een dorpje waar we de trein pakten. Al met al nog zo'n tien kilometer gelopen, met flinke heuvels en pijnlijke wind en temperatuur (en natuurlijk er niet op voorbereid zijn, wat het allemaal een stuk onprettiger maakte), dus we waren bekaf. En dat terwijl er 's morgens om zeven uur in Notts geen wolkje te zien was! Aan de ene kant was ik wel blij dat we het niet afkapten door mij: ik liep op mijn goedkope gympies en had nog pijn in mijn knie van het over-enthousiaste frisbee-en van de dag ervoor. Maar vastbesloten om het toch te proberen, dribbelde ik achter de twee reuzen aan. Eenmaal terug in Sheffield, waar we over gingen stappen op de trein naar Notts, besloten toch nog even die stad te bekijken. Het resulteerde meer in het geforceerd opzoeken van de city centre, en dan het eerste cafe induiken voor een kop koffie. Dat was het eerste moment dat mijn handen weer langzaam op temperatuur kwamen. Kon ik eindelijk die knoop van mijn broek weer dichtdoen! ;-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-111313246983248960?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/111313246983248960/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=111313246983248960&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111313246983248960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111313246983248960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/04/trip-report-2-over-hoe-we-van-de.html' title='Trip report [2]: over hoe we van de heuvel af werden geblazen'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-111294797753461463</id><published>2005-04-08T09:02:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-04-08T14:45:23.053+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Robin the Fox</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Yesterday night on campus, cycling home from a visit to friends in city centre, I met my new friend: a FOX! I have seen plenty of squirrels and other small animals on this lovely campus, but I didn't expect to see this one. Was he lost, coming from the Wollaton Park maybe? He looked up quickly, and than ran away, carrying a small animal in his mouth. I think this is the first wild fox I have ever seen in my life. I will call him Robin because he reminded me of that cartoon of Robin Hood I once watched as a child. In that cartoon, Robin Hood was a fox (can anybody confirm this for me? Can't find it on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);" href="http://www.imdb.com/"&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;...). Anyway, it was a pleasure to meet him!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-111294797753461463?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/111294797753461463/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=111294797753461463&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111294797753461463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111294797753461463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/04/robin-fox.html' title='Robin the Fox'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-111282069754328351</id><published>2005-04-06T21:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-04-06T22:48:21.903+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Trip report [1]</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Where: &lt;/span&gt;            &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" href="http://www.visitpeakdistrict.com/"&gt;The Peak District&lt;/a&gt;, from Hope to Matlock&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;People:&lt;/span&gt;         &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;    Petr and Marije&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Equipment:&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;    Two mountainbikes, two cameras and a big lunch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Weather:&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;    Cloudy, not rainy, not cold. Good!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Remarkable: &lt;/span&gt; Is this the second sheep country, after New Zealand?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Last week Monday, Petr and I left with the early (7:43 AM) train to Hope, a village of which we have not seen a single building, except for a big &lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" href="http://www.peakdistrict-education.gov.uk/Fact%20Sheets/fz11mex1.htm"&gt;factory&lt;/a&gt; that provides 10% of Britain's cement supply &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;(reminding me of the ENCI in Maastricht, that took an enormous bite out of the hill.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;..). For a moment it felt like we ended up in the middle of nowhere, if it were not for the kind British hikers we met. Before showing us the way to go, they just had to tell us about their visit to Prague and their love for the Dutch radiostation called "Arrow Rock Radio" (even not all Dutch people know of that one, right Bram?). Very soon though, we were climbing a very, very steep hill. I write 'climbing', because there was simply no option of cycling! The reward was a gorgeous view on the moors of the Dark Peak, definitely worth the climb. After this rough warming up things could only get easier, and fortunately it did. Descending was sometimes quite challenging with the muddy ground and stones, but that gave us the right amount of adrenaline to prefer the off-roads (mostly bridle-paths) over the paved roads. The results: two mega-muddy bikes and the fear that the pub would not let us in that evening at around 6:00 PM in Matlock. But also: two happy kids proud of their achievements.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Petit Yohan would say: "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; 'core, 'core!&lt;/span&gt;" (more, more...).&lt;br /&gt;Photos soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-111282069754328351?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/111282069754328351/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=111282069754328351&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111282069754328351'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111282069754328351'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/04/trip-report-1.html' title='Trip report [1]'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-111236722345336889</id><published>2005-04-01T15:46:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2005-04-01T16:22:16.776+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Please mr Mailman, take good care of my thesis!</title><content type='html'>That's it.&lt;br /&gt;I've just posted and emailed my thesis to the people that are supposed the receive and evaluate it. No more revisions, no more reviewing, in fact, I'd rather not want to look at it anymore now, in case I discover some kind of stupid error somewhere...&lt;br /&gt;People ask me if I feel lighter now. I realise it has the same effect as being asked whether you feel like it is your birthday (dutch: jarig voelen...). You are very conscious that you are supposed to feel relieved or happy, but ... you don't (although I admit I went into the nearest Spar to grab some chips, or better: crisps, as soon as I mailed the thesis to the University at the post office).&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, that chapter is almost closed. Now I will wait for the verdict to see if I may pay a last official visit to the University of Maastricht, to pick up that little piece of paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the meantime, we've introduced my favourite tradition in a research centre: Frizzzbee! Last week an email has been sent around through the school of psych announcing our 'lab activity'. Some of you may be familiar with this. Let me give you a short history to make sure you know what I am talking about. It all started at my stay at the FC DC in Nijmegen, where the coolest PI started a very nice tradition: Ultimate Frisbee, every week. This is a teamsport, comparable to football or rugby. If you'd like to know more, come and visit me here :) . When I moved to Montreal, I made an attempt to introduce it at the MNI as well, which was less succesful although there were always some enthusiastic labmates present. So, as the labmates seemed to like it, including our supervisor, it was just inevitable to launch it here in Notts as well. This afternoon will be the kick-off. I am very curious how many people will turn up, because the weather does not look too encouraging. Quite some people have reacted enthusiastically to the email though, so we'll see. And otherwise we'll just continue with the already existing tradition on Friday afternoons: the pub!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-111236722345336889?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/111236722345336889/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=111236722345336889&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111236722345336889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111236722345336889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/04/please-mr-mailman-take-good-care-of-my.html' title='Please mr Mailman, take good care of my thesis!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11250167.post-111152582105291356</id><published>2005-03-22T20:41:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-03-22T21:33:36.453Z</updated><title type='text'>Marije aan de Mac!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Je leest het goed. Na steeds meer nerderige trekjes te hebben vertoond, heb ik me nu ook al bekeerd naar de Mac (dat dat gedeeltelijk geforceerd was door faculteitsvoorkeur voor een bepaald besturingssyteem laten we even achterwege). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Dat enorme scherm heb ik nu voor me. Geen aparte harde schijf meer, alles zit 'in' het scherm. Alle in- en uitgangen zitten aan de achterkant, met een smalle sleuf voor cd 's en dvd's aan de zijkant. De voorkant ziet er ook echt elegant uit. In een woord:&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://images.apple.com/imac/gallery/images/imachero20040831.jpg"&gt;VET&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;Dus nu ga ik de tijd nemen om deze furie te temmen. Als je adviezen hebt, of leuke trucjes kent, zijn ze meer dan welkom. Nu weer gauw lekker verder spelen...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"&gt;:)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11250167-111152582105291356?l=marijenotts.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/feeds/111152582105291356/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11250167&amp;postID=111152582105291356&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111152582105291356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11250167/posts/default/111152582105291356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://marijenotts.blogspot.com/2005/03/marije-aan-de-mac.html' title='Marije aan de Mac!'/><author><name>Marije</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02379968032008460943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos7.flickr.com/buddyicons/76779938@N00.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry></feed>
