Diary
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Porto-Vecchio on Corsica
During our summer vacation on Corsica we visited a few villages and towns. One was Porto-Vecchio. This is a charming old fortified harbour town, typical for Corsica. Although it was less than a 100km away from where we were staying it turned out to be another day trip. Of course, we were taking it easy…
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Monte Renoso Trail on Corsica
On one of our first days on Corsica we decided to go for a walk and picked Monte Renoso as the target. We found this route on Komoot. The route from our apartment to the starting point took us along a narrow and tortuous but scenic road which managed to drain most of our battery.…
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One Quarter of the Way: 100 Days of Coding Python Bootcamp
After having applied the object oriented programming paradigm in a few lessons building games like snake and pong with Turtle the course deviates to explain how to read and write csv files and introduces the pandas library. On day 26 list and dictionary comprehension are introduced as powerful and elegant ways to create a list…
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Exploring the Dutch Mountain Trail: Bocholtz to Vaals
On our third and last day we decided to opt for a shorter section of 15k, starting in Bocholtz where we stopped the day before and walk to the drielandenpunt at Vaals, where The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany meet. After checking out of the hotel we drove to the drielandenpunt and parked our car. We…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
