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On the flight back from Japan, we had to circumvent Russia’s airspace. To do so, we went up to the North Pole, and then through Greenland. I never expected that seeing Greenland from above would give such amazing views. It is absolutely mesmarizing!
March has ended a few days ago, meaning that this recap is coming a bit later than usual. Maybe it is a product of the weather being nicer, and the fact that I’ve been a bit more busy than usual. It’s been quite some hectic days!
Yesterday, we visited the Harry Potter Studios. Since it was quite far away from the center, it took some time to get there, and consequently most of the day. It was worth it. It’s one of those one in a lifetime experiences to see the actual set of one of your favorite franchises. And the butter beer was delicious 🍺!
More iconic even, was the visit to the Transport Museum Shop. Yes, to the shop and not to the museum itself. Sadly, we didn’t have time to visit the museum yesterday. I would say that this shop is quite dangerous for me since I like everything transit. I ended up buying what I think is the most iconic souvenir I could get: a pillow with the same fabric as the seats of the trains from the Elizabeth Line! I love it!
We arrived last night at St Pancras with the Eurostar. It’s the second time doing this trip using the train, and despite taking much longer than the flight, I’m glad I made that decision. It probably helps that I never took the flight from Eindhoven to London, which takes around 40 minutes.
The advantage of the train is, most often than not, that you can just hop in the train and not spend much time as you need to do in an airport. However, since we live in Eindhoven, we need to first go to Rotterdam, do passport control and security. Only then board the train. So the time argument is actually not in our favor, for us. Nevertheless, we still chose to do it.
I always forget how ginormous London is. According to Wikipedia, there’s around 8.8 million people living here. That’s almost as many as in Portugal and half of the Netherlands. It’s nice to be back.
I’m looking forward to enjoy the next few days in London visiting a friend of mine, and checking a few places where I haven’t been yet!
December is now coming to an end. It’s time to recap about what has happened during this last month, before writing my final Year in Review. This month was quite of a rollercoaster, I visited a few places, met with people a few times and watched a lot of stuff.
October is now two days away. Halloween is gone - which I always enjoying mentioning despite never doing anything for it -, and my birthday too. I’m now 25, a quarter of a century, a very interesting-feeling number. Some would say it’s now closer to the 30s than to the 20s. Let’s recap what’s happened this last month!
September is now almost gone and we’re diving deeper and deeper into the autumn. Despite a few problems here and there, I think it was quite a nice month, and it’s important to always try seeing things for their positive side, despite that now always being very easy.
Uff, I wanted to write this before the end of August, but I’m still on time. August is over and it’s starting to feel a bit like autumn to me. Quite excited, as it will become a bit colder, hopefully, and it’s also one of my favorite seasons. Very colorful! But now, let’s recap August!
Last weekend - starting on Friday - we went on a small trip to Limburg, the southernmost region of the Netherlands. The initial plan was to bring our bikes and bike to some interesting points in this region. Due to my wrist, we decided it would be better to just walk. I’m so glad we made that decision!
Time flies and now it’s June that is coming to an end. This was the first month, or at least first weeks, of summer. Despite all the rain and the mild weather that we’ve been having here in the Netherlands, it reached 30°C last week. A bit too warm if you ask me, especially when it comes to how houses are not prepared to deal with heat.
March had quite a lot of highlights for me, despite the bike shituation. Let’s take a look and recap what has happened the past month. I always have to go through my calendar and check stuff for these posts!
Finally, we also visited Genève. The weather was definitely better and we could enjoy the sun. We ended up in a district whose architecture was quite striking. So I decided to share 3 pictures.
After München, we also visited Zürich. Unfortunately, the sky wasn’t the most clear in most days. Therefore not having the best pictures I was wishing for. Nevertheless, Zürich keeps amazing me and being one of my favorite cities.
A selection of four photos from a recent trip to München. In the park, I played a bit with a long exposure, to create the soft waterfall effect. I was also extremely intrigued with the people surfing in the river. I might’ve taken a bit too many photos. I hope I didn’t make anyone uncomfortable.
