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Exploring the Boerhaave Museum: A Dive into Dutch Scientific History
During our recent trip to Leiden we decided to visit the Boerhaave museum again. This is a very famous Dutch history of science museum covering 5 centuries of scientific discoveries in The Netherlands. You can view famous scientific equipment like early telescopes and microscopes used by for example Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. Quite a lot of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
