Happy 175th birthday Belgium :)

Although I have no clue how happy the average belgian is with this birthday, according to this (dutch) link:
NOS CollumnThe distorting thing in this collumn is of course that it was written by a dutch journalist and not a belgian ( Read more... )

My sympathies to all my british friends in the horrible events that hit London this morning.
My thoughts and prayers are with the victims.

This weekend we traveled. We went to France on friday afternoon. The heat was oppresive and when we found a hotel in the city of Amiens around 2100 we were tired, sweaty and warm. The hotel 'Grand Universe' was a late 19th, early 20th century building and we had a room in the back. The room had a window looking into a small courtyard with roofs and ( Read more... )

My father is back :) He was just in time for father's day ( Read more... )

Yay! I got all results from my exams now :)

Ancient History: 6.5 (my excuse is that I had 40 degrees fever when making this exam!)
Common History New Era (1500 - 1870): 7.5
Science of History: 7.8
Paper on Ancient History : 8.5
Common History Contemporary Era (1870 - ): 8.5
Medieval History: 7.8

Me happy with good grades :)

Yesterday I was asked why I thought the BBC was a far better news service then the dutch NOS.

Well compare:
Franco-British row: Another 100-year war?

and
Verdonk boekt eerste succes Both are analytical behind-the-news kinda stories. There every comparison stops. The BBC writes a funny, witty, historically interesting item that acurately puts ( Read more... )

My father is currently on an EU engineering mission in the Gazastrip. He is an expert civil engineer with a specialism in airport runways. Since Gaza Airport (or lately Yasser Arafat International Airport) is currently lacking in runways I wondered what he should be doing there. The airport was financed by the EU and fully operational. However when ( Read more... )

Remember the thing I said a couple of posts back...?

Yesterday I did my exam on modern history. It was tough but I think I made it... although not as well as history of the new era for which I scored 75 out of 100.

Well I just got the note that I made it...
I scored 85 out 100... O_o

This made me a very happy bunny.... :))

Yesterday I finished my uni exams with Medieval History. This course is my favourite and the exam was a piece of cake. There was only one part of a minor question I really did not know. 'What does Simonie mean'? I tried finding it in my books afterward but to no avail. Neither could I find it in the papers I had to study so eventually I googled the ( Read more... )

Suffice to say that I am not very happy with the result of yesterday's referendum ( Read more... )