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Greek Restaurant Nisos in Heerlen
After our second day of hiking the Dutch Mountain Trail we opted to go out for dinner in Heerlen. We picked Greek restaurant Nisos after a Google search. This turned out to be a good choice after a day of walking. We went for the Tapas platter and it was definitely huge. If you are especially hungry or like large portions then this is a recommendation. We took the meat version and had lots of of smallish Greek classic dishes on the wooden board: tzatziki, homous, meat balls in tomato sauce, gigantes, steak, chicken and pork.It was way more than…
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Exploring the Dutch Mountain Trail: Eygelshoven to Bocholtz
On our second on the Dutch Mountain Trail we decided to tackle the first section from Eygelshoven to Bocholtz. The end point was based on a convenient public transport connection back to Heerlen. We took the car from our hotel TerWorm at the outskirts of Heerlen to the station where we took a bus to Eygelshoven. After arriving in Bocholtz we took a bus from there back to Heerlen station and then back by car to our hotel. This was our longest walk of in total 22k. The first part was quite nice. We had to do an extra k…
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Exploring the Dutch Mountain Trail: Eijsden to Maastricht
Because we didn’t have enough to walk the whole Dutch Mountain Trail during our vacation, we decided to simply pick 3 sections that fitted our available time. On the first day, because we had to first travel from home by car to The Netherlands we picked the last 17,5k of the trail from Eijsden to Maastricht as our first walk. Eijsden was easy to reach by car, close to the highway and it had a direct train connection with Maastricht, so we could park in Eijsden, walk the trail to Maastricht and then take the train back to Eijsden to…
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Getting Started with PyCharm for Python Programming
To complete the programming projects of the beginner section of the Python 100 days of code bootcamp you are recommended to install PyCharm as the coding editor. Via PyCharm you can then get easy access to a folder structure with the projects of the first 15 days including each time a blank main.py file, some instructions and a solutions file. I had never used PyCharm before and I have to say I am positively impressed. I have used Spyder in the past to create some basic scripts, mainly because it comes installed together with Anaconda but this is geared towards…
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Exploring the Dutch Mountain Trail in Luxury
We recently walked part of the Dutch Mountain Trail in the South of The Netherlands. This is a 100k walk from Eygelshoven to Maastricht. Real hikers probably take a backpack and walk the trail in 4 or 5 days and then camp at various sites along the way. We opted for a luxury hike and stayed at Hotel TerWorm in Heerlen and transported ourselves from the hotel to the starting point of the section of the day and then at the end made our way back to our hotel. No need to carry a heavy backpack that way. The hotel…
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Hollywood Boulevard. Een Eeuw Filmsterren, Steven de Foer (ISBN 9789463101516, Uitgeverij Polis)
This book came out in 2016 and I bought it after reading a review in the paper De Standaard. The author is a journalist that worked and wrote for De Standaard covering among other things American politics for quite a while. He is also a film enthusiast and he wrote numerous movie reviews for De Standaard as well. This book is his own short history of American movies based on his selection of the most important movie stars, starting with Charlie Chaplin and ending with Leonardo DiCaprio. The book is split chronologically in a number of sections, each representing an…
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Why I Chose Refurbished iPhone 16 Pro Over iPhone 17
Recently one of our kids was in need of a new phone so I was going to get myself a new iPhone and give my current iPhone to him. At first I was considering to buy the new iPhone 17 Pro or Pro max but I found the price ticket prohibitive. Actually, coming from an iPhone 14 Pro the new iPhone 17 looked like a good alternative if it wasn’t for the lack of a zoom lens. My phone is often the only camera I have with me so I like the flexibility of the 3 lens setup of the…
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Visit Museum Voorlinden: Art, Gardens, and Unique Experiences
On our way home from Leiden we stopped to visit museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar. This is a famous museum of modern art although I have to confess I had never heard of it myself. After the visit I have to say that I was wrong not knowing about this museum. The grounds and garden are nice to walk in and the exhibition with works from William Forsythe was a good mix of traditional art and pieces that you could participate in as a visitor. There were 2 spaces that you had to traverse, one by swinging from one rope to…
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Exploring Leiden: The Rembrandt Days Experience
Our recent visit to Leiden happened to coincide with the Leidse Rembrandt Dagen to honour the famous painter Rembrandt van Rijn. During this event part of the city centre becomes the stage for actors evoking the 17th century. There are also many art exhibitions to visit. The actors, in 17th century costumes, perform activities typical of the period. Visitors can have themselves painted in the style of Rembrandt and there are some old games that can be played. After wandering through the centre and doing some shopping we needed a break to rehydrate. We ended up on the terrace of…
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Experience the Impressive Naturalis Museum in Leiden
Naturalis in Leiden is the Dutch national research institute for biodiversity. Their national history museum has a very large collection of more than 40 million objects. During our previous visit a few years ago most of the museum was closed for renovation and we could only see their T-Rex skeleton Trix. This was excavated in the US and an important piece for the renovated Naturalis. The new Naturalis is absolutely impressive. The architecture of the new atrium connecting the lobby, museum shop and the various exhibition rooms is stunning. The stairs from ground floor all the way to the roof…
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