http://www.makoho.nl turn the caleidoscope Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:12:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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, ... http://www.makoho.nl/2010/moving-packing-cleaning/ 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 ... http://www.makoho.nl/2010/the-dingle-way/ 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 ... http://www.makoho.nl/2010/moving/ ... my Moleskine notebook http://www.makoho.nl/2010/half-way-through/ 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 ... http://www.makoho.nl/2010/two-quotes-from-lud-in-the-mist/ 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 ... http://www.makoho.nl/2010/a-walk-around-utrecht/ http://www.makoho.nl/2010/komt-allen/ I spent yesterday evening with Carlijn in Den Haag, catching up and having fun drinking beers, wine and cocktails :). We didn’t make it very late, though, because Carlijn wants to spend this weekend writing her thesis. I was home at around 11pm and went out with my camera after ... http://www.makoho.nl/2010/an-evening/ As a small storm crossed over Holland yesterday, I took the opportunity to take a few pictures of its front approaching Leiden: http://www.makoho.nl/2010/a-storm/     Vlietlanden, March 28th http://www.makoho.nl/2010/clouds-on-water-ii/