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London is certainly my beloved city … I have to go and visit every couple of months or else … or else what? Or else nothing. Huh!
I’ve been there many times in summer, autumn or winter … but never really in the spring. All those blossomy trees and tulips added a new dimenssion to my London experience.
Three things that made my London visit this time:
- The Virtual Methods event, which was an initial reason to go;
- Les Miserables (I know, it has been on for 21 years already, but I only went to see it now and it was *impressive*, here are some songs to get a taste);
- Little squirrel that climbed up my leg to get a piece of a carrot cake. They are all over, together with cute little rabbits, but never before one has been actually so *intimate* with me.
Will be back in June;)
By Nana | May 1, 2006 | Topics: Les Voyages | 1 Comment »
Just Back From London
Tonite pics, tomorrow post;)
By Nana | April 29, 2006 | Topics: Les Voyages | 3 Comments »
I knew it!
As per usual, I ran into this test at Jeremy’s page. Of course, I could’t resist as I wanted an official confirmation that I truley belong in London. And I took the test … waiting for the results, hoping London would pop-up … if it had been any other city, of course, I would have been sad sad sad … But … I belong in London … right, packing … moving for ever … leaving in two weeks! (ok, I really fly off in two weeks, but just for virtual methods event).
| You Belong in London |
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By Nana | April 17, 2006 | Topics: General, Les Voyages | No Comments »
Bruges / Brugge
Yesterday it was a sunny day in Belgium. David suggested, that would be great to go and visit Bruges. So we went. At Gare Centrale the platform 6 was packed with people - apparently everyone decided to visit Bruges on such a nice day. I had a pleasure to listen to a lovely English accent (a girl next seat) all the way there.
Brugge and parapet
Brugge and motor punting
Brugge and a church
Brugge and a square
Brugge and nice trees
Impressions? Quite popular tourist destination, very cute with all the canals, tons of chocolate shops and restaurants, yummy tea room, horse carriages everywhere.
And again, I ate waterzooi - it transpired not to be such a good idea, as I still can’t eat anything, was soooo creaaaaamy!
By Nana | March 13, 2006 | Topics: Les Voyages | 1 Comment »
Ce Soir, Je Suis BOB
This sentence is the latest progress in my French;) Here in Belgium, they have a nice costume to give even nicer label BOB to a person, who must not drink and has to arrange, that everyone else who has been drinking arrives home safe. The other evening, people from UCL NNL were meeting ULB people for a drink. And I was BOB. Well, not that I had a car and took everyone home (I was the one who had to travel the largest distance to get home, to be precise), but mostly cos they all had been drinking real beers and I stuck to pechresse & kriek again. Very nice, light, sweet, fruit beers.
From right to left: Virginie, Regis, Jean-Benoit, Emilie, Caroline.
By Nana | February 3, 2006 | Topics: Les Voyages, Personal | 4 Comments »
Inspiring Office for übermensch
It’s very easy: It has two screens (tho I only use one, but the more the better;)), big window, I am all ALONE in here, cosy setting … what more would I want?
Voila;)
By Nana | February 1, 2006 | Topics: Les Voyages, PhD | 5 Comments »
20 already gone, 13 to go
I have 13 days left in Louvain-la-Neuve.
Reasons why I like the place and I am gonna be looking forward to be coming back in May:
- very nice poeple from my corridor;
- a lovely sound of a city clock at every hour;
- insipring office;);
Why I am looking forward to going home:
- will not be cold anymore and will sleep better (I won’t have to think of buying earplugs everytime I go to bed).
By Nana | January 31, 2006 | Topics: Les Voyages, Personal | 1 Comment »
Pecheresse
Yesterday I took an afternoon off and went to Brussels. My friend David, who is currently living and lecturing at CU in Budapest, came to pick me up at Bruxelles Central. He played a city guide until the rain forced us to go in the first bar. I had a chocolat chaud. David almost fell of the chair when he heard my pronunciation of it. Oh well, am not exactly a Francophone. He warned me a while ago I should have at least learnt a few French words to use them at conferences and papers … according to his theory it increases one’s coefficient of intellectualness when doing so. He promised he would supplied me with basic vocabulary.
Then we continued our tour de Bruxelles, ending up drinking beer. No matter how I didn’t like beer and I had it at most five times in my life, I couldn’t get away without drinking it. I was recommended a fruit beer Pecheresse. Mmmmmm, it was really of good taste.
Bruxelles’s Persistence of Time
A funny little sculpture of a pissing dwarf Manneken Pis
Manneken Pis in a bit disclosed way
Blimey, they stole the Double-Decker! Look, Look, did this double decker lose its way? Back to London you go …
By Nana | January 22, 2006 | Topics: Les Voyages, Personal | No Comments »
Short Notes about Louvain-la-Neuve
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incredibly lots of couples around here (on my 5 minutes walk form home to the office I usually run into three or four);
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very few people speak English (apart from uni people);
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market all over the place Tuesdays and Saturdays;
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all the restaurants (and they are all over the place) are completely full at evenings;
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only one dog and one cat observed up until now;
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a very nice sound (like somebody would be playing the zither) of a city clock (I assume) at every hour;
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everyone speaks French and I have a firm feeling I am the only person who doesn’t;
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only one big supermarket in the whole city, which is a part of a big shopping centre, called E’splanade;
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delicious bread.
By Nana | January 16, 2006 | Topics: Les Voyages, Personal | No Comments »
Working Sunday
My initial plans for today were visiting Brussels but as I was quite productive yesterday I thought I should have continued working. Now, I partly regret and partly not regret the decision. I have boiling water under way again - I guess I need some balance. When I really feel the heat for work, then it is absolute. Yesterday, after about 9 hours of work I went home and continued reading - it was the new edited book of Christine Hine. I got stuck with the epilogue, written by Nicholas W. Jankowski and Martine van Selm. The authors discuss about agenda for Internet research and in accordance with methodological innovation concept, they report a gap exactly on the spot where my PhD could come in - the lack of research designs for incorporating three major paradigms within social science, or on a method level the lack of mixed methods designs suitable for Internet research. And this is exactly the thing I have been dealing with in the last year.
So, I put the book aside, tried to fall asleep but didn’t work. The ideas inside my head were chasing my sleep, questions kept popping up. Awful. Now, I am sleepy and much less productive then yesterday.
I took a walk around the lake, which is only a few minutes away from my office. The proof that Louvain-la-Neuve is a lot of nature, too;)
The ducks
Trees in the water
By Nana | January 15, 2006 | Topics: Academic books, Les Voyages, PhD | 3 Comments »
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