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My new home
Sunday, August 8th, 2010
This is just a quick note from my phone as I am not yet online with my desktop or laptop.
Since moving, last Wednesday, there have been 1,001 things I had to take care of, including packing and unpacking, taking lots of stuff to the garbage or recycle plant, sending away notices, buying new stuff, [...]
It’s finally happened…
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
… I’m moving!
How to sort your books
Friday, July 30th, 2010
I’m moving to a new place. Part of moving is moving my books. Part of moving my books is taking them all out of their bookcase, into boxes, and putting them back in a new bookcase at my new home. Part of that is the opportunity to sort them in some way as they find [...]
Moving. Packing. Cleaning.
Monday, July 26th, 2010
70 boxes arrived last week as the very first real and physical step of relocating to my new home. I set out last week thinking it’d be easy to fill them with the stuff I want and to simply clear away all the rest in anonymous bags.
As it turns out, though, finding things in drawers [...]
The Dingle Way
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
I came back home yesterday from a lovely holiday on the Dingle peninsula, Ireland. The peninsula has a walking route around its coast that stretches for 113 kilometres, and I walked every bit of it in 6 days going from B&B to B&B. The shortest walk was 14 km, the longest two were 22 kilometers [...]
Moving
Friday, July 9th, 2010
After a month of silence in which many things have happened in both my personal life and in my professional life, here’s a new post! Although… it’s weird to write a blogpost that is longer than Twitter’s 140 characters.
Here’s the deal: I have bought a house in Leiden! It is a ‘proper’ house with a [...]
Half-way through…
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
… my Moleskine notebook
Two quotes from Lud-in-the-Mist
Monday, May 24th, 2010
On a whim and on advice of Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself on Twitter) in one of his tweets, I’ve begun reading Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees. The book was written in 1926, and has fantasy, horror, humour, and beautiful language as its main appeal. Won’t go into detail about the book, but before I give you two [...]
A walk around Utrecht
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
I’ve spent a few hours today with Marca on a walking route from Utrecht to Houten, today. It’s an enjoyable 11km through fields, some small towns, and along some interesting historic sites. There’s two Dutch forts as well as remains of an ancient Roman settlement.
It took us 2.5 hours to reach Houten, including a stop [...]
My name is Marco Hokke. My blog is about the things that interest me and things I might forget if I would not blog them.