Borrowed this wonderful book of my father. It's a popular scientific book on the history of the universe and the world. With these authors it's no surprise that it is extremely well-written.
We spent Queensday in Haarlem -- for the first time in years that we didn't go to Amsterdam.
In the afternoon we went for a walk over the flee market. It had been raining all morning, but there were surprisingly many people still trying to sell things.
While we were having dinner we saw the house-boat that disappeared last week returning; the owners were reconnecting the powercables. It must be an amazing experience to take your own house on a trip to somewhere!
We went to see the 2nd part of Lord of the Rings, in De Munt in Amsterdam. It certainly didn't disappoint us... a wonderful movie.
It ended around 23:30. It was very busy on the streets at that time (Queensday night, of course).
We used to have a Brother 8088 with a Hercules graphical card. Unfortunately, almost all games only supported CGA mode. So we couldn't play most of the games, only the text-mode ones.
It was Mieke who --after a long time experimenting-- found out how to use the graphical games on our PC.
One of the very first computer games I've played was Alley Cat. I haven't played for about 10 years, but the other day in a nostalgic mood I went looking for it... download it here!
Excellent, such a long weekend. David and Milena just left; they'll spend the day in Amsterdam and take the train to Frankfurt in the afternoon.
The weekend was basically a
holiday. Saturday evening we went out in Amsterdam, in a bar at the Grimburgwal. Although we didn't plan to, we somehow stayed in this bar all evening, trying triple-beers.
We almost missed the train home. I thought there would be one at 1:40 but the train we took at 1:20 turned out to be the very last one. Yesterday morning we woke up late and had a long Easter breakfast. Then we went to the beach at Zandvoort where the weather was surprisingly good. I felt rather overdressed with my shawl and coat.
We went out in Haarlem yesterday. David and Milena took us to "El Pincho", a tapas-restaurant at the Riviervischmarkt. It was the first time I had tapas; enjoyed it very much. There were many different things to eat. Even though I don't really like fish I found the octupus-dish very delicious. Not only the food was good, the place also has a very cosy atmosphere -- warm and a bit noisy.
We basically spent the whole evening in the restaurant; we left after midnight. Had another beer in In Den Uiver, it was a great evening.
It was cold -- quite remarkable to see so many people dressed in shorts and T-shirts when it was only 7 degrees outside...
Saturday evening we went to see the Bloemencorso arriving in Haarlem. This is a big annual Flower Parade.
Anybody remember 
The weekend was basically a
We went out in Haarlem yesterday. David and Milena took us to "El Pincho", a tapas-restaurant at the Riviervischmarkt. It was the first time I had tapas; enjoyed it very much. There were many different things to eat. Even though I don't really like fish I found the octupus-dish very delicious. Not only the food was good, the place also has a very cosy atmosphere -- warm and a bit noisy. 
