• Breakpoint Foodstation Antwerp

    A while ago we were at hockey club Olympia and went for lunch at Brasserie Woods. I wrote another post about that. This was an excellent choice but we also had to grab something to bring along for one of the hockey players and decided to stop on the walk back from Brasserie Woods to the club at Breakpoint Foodstation. We expect the typical tank station shop with some basic food but it turned out to be quite a bit better. You can also charge your electric car at the station and for those people the food station is actually…

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  • Growing Cherry Tomatoes in Your Auk Mini

    Some time ago I mentioned I had switched from basil and parsley in my Auk mini to cherry tomatoes, chilli peppers and some mini peppers. After 2 weeks I saw the first sprouts and by now the tomato plant is a giant dwarfing the other 2. Luckily I could decide on what would go into the 4th spot so that is still empty. This is good because any plant in it would have been overgrown by the tomato plant. Although the plant is big, it has only flowers that still need to turn into tomatoes so far. The peppers and…

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    Growing Cherry Tomatoes in Your Auk Mini
  • Reality

    ‘Reality is that which, when you don’t believe in it, doesn’t go away.‘― Peter Viereck

  • A Perfect Lunch Stop: Brasserie Woods in Nachtegalenpark near hockey club Olympia

    Some time ago we had a bit 2 hours over lunch between 2 hockey games at hockey club Olympia in Antwerp and the cafetaria didn’t fit our needs. We found Brasserie Woods within walking distance in the Nachtegalenpark park. The brasserie is located right at the park entrance and benefits from the green surroundings to add a bit of cachet. It was chilly but we were lucky that it was a sunny afternoon so although we sat inside we could still enjoy the sun due to the interior of the brasserie which resembles a bit a greenhouse style with lots…

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  • Charles Lauritsen on Oppenheimer

    ‘This man was unbelievable. He always gave you the answer before you had time to formulate the question.‘― Charles Lauritsen

  • Einstein on the significance of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

    ‘Everything has changed, except human thinking.‘― Albert Einstein

  • Understanding the Futility of Nuclear Conflicts

    ‘A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.‘― Ronald Reagan

  • Return of the Stone Age

    ‘The Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of science.‘― Winston Churchill

  • Taste Authentic Belgian Cuisine at Le Zinneke

    A while ago I went for dinner in Le Zinneke in Schaarbeek again. This is an old style traditional Belgian restaurant with a one of a kind interior. Nothing fancy but authentic and definitely unique. Very friendly staff and prices are good, eating here will not break your bank account. They serve traditional dishes, Brussels classics they call them and during the mussels season they have an enormous choice of mussels preparation styles, like for example with garlic, white wine, curry and so on. I read somewhere they have 65 different options on their menu. I had mussels and they…

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  • Einstein. His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson (ISBN 9780743264747, Simon & Schuster)

    A ‘new’ biography of Einstein by Walter Isaacson came out in 2007. The first biography I read from Isaacson was the one of Steve Jobs which actually came out later, in 2011. I enjoyed the Steve Jobs biography and by looking for other books by Isaacson I came across this Einstein biography. I bought the book but then put it on the shelf because I was reading something else as usual. I had read the ‘authoritative’ biography Subtle is the Lord by Abraham Pais a long time ago the one and after that didn’t feel like I was missing something…

    Einstein. His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson (ISBN 9780743264747, Simon & Schuster)