Category: Adventurer
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Floating Through Space
[Dutch Lock Down Day Five Hundred Twenty] By Sia and David Guetta from the atrocious movie Music. 24/7 and 365You made another day, made it alive
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Someday
[Dutch Lock Down Day Five Hundred Nineteen] From the Hunchback of Notre Dame soundtrack performed by the incredible All 4 One. Someday life will be fairerNeed will be rarerAnd greed will not payGod speed this bright millennium on its wayAnd let it come someday
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Breathe Me
[Dutch Lock Down Day Five Hundred Seventeen] By the hidden Sia. Be my friend, hold meWrap me up, enfold meI am small and needyWarm me up and breathe me
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When In Rome?
[Dutch Lock Down Day Five Hundred Sixteen] I love this phrase and, seriously, it’s not THAT funny when you’re actually IN Rome, saying it about EVERYTHING until you come a cross someone shitting by the side of the path in a public park. Then it’s HILARIOUS. Ever since moving back to the States, it’s woken…
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“How Often Do You Speak Dutch?”
[Dutch Lock Down Day Five Hundred Fifteen] All. The. Time. A friend of mine asked this question the other day. (Hi, H!) Me: I pause before I open my mouth to answer a LOTH: Um.. How do you say.. M…Me: Exactly. Especially with strangersH: You DID come from the US, right?Me: *SIGH* Today, for example,…
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Confusion
[Dutch Lock Down Day Five Hundred Fourteen] By the incredible Electric Light Orchestra. ConfusionConfusionConfusionConfusionConfusionConfusionConfusionConfusionConfusion
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Vegetables? As a Closing? What?
[Dutch Lock Down Day Five Hundred Thirteen] If you read “yesterday’s” post all the way to the end you may have noticed that I closed it with “Vegetables”. It’s a Dutch Thing. Sort of. More of a Rain Thing. But first the news: Two military personnel banned from foreign tours for refusing vaccine Lower immunity…
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Groningen Emigration and De-Registration
[Dutch Lock Down Day Five Hundred Twelve] I’m still not ready to talk about Zoe but I’m ready to talk about other things. Like how we just emigrated from the Netherlands and deregistered. But first the news: Coronavirus in the Netherlands: what you need to know (August 13) Access testing will no longer be free…
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Lux Aeterna
[Dutch Lock Down Day Five Hundred Eleven] From Requiem for a Dream composed by Clint Mansell Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine,cum sanctis tuis in aeternum, quia pius es.Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,et lux perpetua luceat eis, quia pius es.
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Aisling’s Song
[Dutch Lock Down Day Five Hundred Nine] From The Secret of Kells composed by Bruno Coulais and sung by Christen Mooney. There is nothing in this life but mist,And we will only be alive,for a short time.
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Jetlag Jenny
[Dutch Lock Down Day Five Hundred Seven] By the Dutch group 45ACIDBABIES. La, la-la-la-laLa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-laLa, la-la-la-laLa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
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Moving Back to the States: Jet Lag
[Dutch Lock Down Day Five Hundred Six] First of all, Zoe totally came with us to America! And second of all, it’s seven twenty local time in Ypsilanti Michigan United States which means it’s one twenty in the morning back in Haren Groningen Netherlands and OH GOD I’M GOING TO THROW UP FROM EXHAUSTION. But…