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Discover Leiden’s History on a Scenic Boat Trip
When we were visiting Leiden we decided to explore the city on a boat trip with Stichting de Leidse Rederij. They are located right in the city center so a boat tour can be easily combined with other activities in the city center. We took a simple 1 hour boat tour at the end of the day at 4PM. No extra’s like catering and so on, just the boat tour with the captain of the boat functioning also a local guide. Our guide talked the full hour, pointing to interesting land marks along the tour and telling little history stories…
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Experiencing Hotel Valk Exclusief in Leiden
We recently spent a few days in Leiden and stayed in hotel Valk Exclusief Haagse Schouw. The hotel is located a few kilometres outside the city center. You can walk if you like but there is also a bus stop just opposite the hotel that takes you to the train station in the center in about 10 minutes or so. We used both options on different days. Although the distance to walk is not too far, the first part towards the center is along a big road and not so nice from the scenic point of view. The bus ride…
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Exploring Turtle Graphics: A Random Walk in Python
As part of the 100 Days of Code with Python training we had to plot a random walk using Turtle Graphics. There was a link to this wikipedia page explaining the mathematics and applications of random walks in various fields. I didn’t read all the mathematical details for various dimensions, only the 1d case and the link to the Pascal triangle. I had certainly learned parts of this but it got buried under decades of ‘living’. Interesting first reacquaintance with the concept. Too much to study with too little time to learn 😄
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From 100 Days of Code to Ideas for Geometry Projects with Turtle
After having finished the beginner section of 100 Days of Code Python Bootcamp on Udemy I decided to push on and to explore the remaining 85 days of coding as well. A vacation intervened with this but now I managed to continue the lessons and finished days 16-18 which are about Object Oriented Programming. Day 18 introduces the turtle graphics package for geometric drawing. I had never used it myself, mainly because most of my programming tasks have centered around processing data and most visualization I needed so far was covered by plotting in matplotlib. I had the odd occassion…
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Exploring De Waag in Doesburg: A Historic Dutch Bar & Restaurant
While we visited Doesburg we didn’t eat in De Waag as it was quite crowded. But in the afternoon, before leaving Doesburg we did stop for a drink. We sat inside because we wanted to look at the interior of the old building. Their site claims this is the oldest restaurant of The Netherlands. The interior still has old furniture and other elements like a balans that was used to weigh goods. Apparently, you could also ask to have yourself weighed to prove that you weren’t a witch to prevent prosecution. Luckily such literal witch hunts are a thing of…
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Chilli Pepper Harvest and Tasting Grown in the Auk Mini
In a previous post I mentioned that my chilli peppers weren’t growing well and that I discovered on the Auk site some tips which I applied. I pruned away the high branches of all the plants and that really did the trick for the chilli peppers. I have peppers growing by the dozens and have been getting a steady harvest. They are quite spicy as well. They measure only 2cm in length but yesterday I put 2 in a my carrot stew and that made it quite spicy. The mini bell peppers are also growing better and ripening faster compared…
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Some Minor Progress With the Progress and Meter Tags on WordPress
In 2 previous posts I tried to use these tags in a custom html block to track my progress in a course I am following. Unfortunately this doesn’t work for some reason. I copied some posts over to a WordPress Blog I set up on a hosting account and to my surprise it actually works without problems there. Same code that correctly displays the progress and meter tags in a custom html block over there doesn’t work on my WordPress.com. It displays correctly while writing the post but after saving the post it strips all the tags away and I…
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Enjoy Local Produce at ‘t Gruttershuys in Doesburg
When we visited Doesburg along the way from De Lutte to Leiden we were looking for a place to have lunch. Google directed us to ‘t Gruttershuys. It is located in a ‘shopping street’ and because it was warm we decided to sit outside. We were more or less sitting in front of the shop on the street at small tables. The place doesn’t have an attractive terrace to sit on but they specialize in local produce and it is a combination of shop and restaurant. Staff was friendly and most important, the food was very good. I had the…
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Creating a Simple Python Quiz App Using OOP Concepts
As mentioned in other posts I started following the 100 Days of Code Python Bootcamp course on Udemy to see if the beginner section was interesting for my teenager son to follow. The beginner level ended on day 14 of the course and covered all the basics of programming. Day 15 was a recap project to apply everything learned so far and days 16 and 17 gave an introduction to object oriented programming and using and defining classes in Python. This is quite a big switch in programatic thinking to go from functional programming to object oriented programming. On day…
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Discover the Beauty of Arboretum Poort Bulten
While staying at Hotel Wilmberberg in De Lutte we explored the surrounding villages such as Oldenzaal, Ootmarsum, Denekamp and Bad Bentheim. On our bike ride to Denekamp we passed by estate Singraven and the watermill/restaurant nearby where we stopped for a coffee. In the nature surrounding Denekamp there were many freshly mowed fields which attracted many storks looking for frogs and mice that didn’t survive the mowing. On the way back from one of our bicycle trips we stopped at Arboretum Poort Bulten, maintained by natuurmonumenten. The arboretum contains over 2500 trees spread over 1000 different species. It is quite…
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