Random Walks in the Low Countries

Reflections and observations on the expatriate experience from an American scientist living and working in the Netherlands.

Foraging for Food (Part 2)

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The Albert Heijn Photo Tour, illustrating the prior blog post:

1)  The Produce Counters

AH Produce 1 AH Produce 2

AH Produce Witlof AH Produce & Fruits

2) The Bakery

AH Bread Counter 1 AH Cakes

3) The Cheese Counter

AH Cheese Counter 1 AH Cheese Counter 4

AH Cheese Counter 6 AH Cheese Counter 5

4) The Meat Wall

AH Meat Wall 2 AH Meat Wall 1

5) The entire Bakery Mix section (and, for comparison, the equivalently sized Coffee Milk section)

AH Baking Section AH Coffee Milk rack 

Epilog)  And the Christmas Trees arrived  today, looking like big ears of corn.

AH Christmas Trees

Summer reflection

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Happy Thanksgiving! The weather is cold here, so it’s a good day to reflect on lazy summer evenings…

A big plus of living in Europe is the opportunities for travel. This is a boat that we chartered, at our mooring in Findhamn, in the Swedish Archipelago.

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