Fox Trotting

Disclaimer: if you click on the pictures you can enlarge them! Had to eat a Belgian Waffle while in Belgium! Efrat with the beer "list" at Delirium in Brussels.  This bar claims to have the most beers in the world - they have over 2000 and their list is more or less the size of a phone book!  Some of the beers we tried at Delirium! Throughout Brussels and Antwerp there were these graffiti walls.  This one is Tintin, so I obviously had to take a picture! Beer! Travelmates goofing around in the Grote Markt of Brussels! The cutest chocolate shop in Bruges... Where I bought these delicious chocolates The beach in Malaga Beautiful gardens in Malaga Victoria and I were fortunate enough to be in Malaga on the 25th anniversary of the Procession of the Virgin Maria. It was one of the coolest things I've witnessed. That 'float', for a lack of a better word, was carried on the shoulders of ( I would guess) 80 men and it

So I know it's been a while, but I just haven't felt like updating the blog.  For one, I've been really quite busy between work, articling applications and travelling, but also it's just hard for me to get excited about writing about myself... Work: Is awesome, I can't really tell you much about what I actually do or the case. But I can tell you that I worked with a lawyer and as a result go to go to court with the lawyer - my name got put into the transcript! The best part of the job though are the people I get to work with.  The lawyers are all really really nice and the interns are great (especially the ones in my office - to the extent that sometime it's hard to get work done because we all just want to hang out all the time) Travel: Over the course of the last several weeks I have been to Belgium for a weekend (in summary: beer and chocolate) and Malaga, Spain for another weekend (in summary: hot and sunny). My dad also visited and we went to a town in

Well, as most of you would know, I hate having to write people and keep in touch.  Okay, so 'hate' is a strong word, but I definitely tend to find it a chore.  Since I'm not really sure what to write right now, I thought I would just upload some pics which help show you what I've been up to.... Last Saturday I went to a potluck at a fellow intern's house.  This is her roommate Dario playing darts in their ridiculously nice apartment. I had to take the pic so you guys could see the contrast between the plasterwork on the ceiling and the lack of furniture + dartboard. This is one of my new friends who kept throwing darts much higher than  she could reach to get them down The weather has been so unbelievably nice this week.  This last Sunday I  went to the beach and it was lovely. I mean I was still in jeans and a sweater... and a scarf. But without the wind it must have been close to 20!  This coming weekend is supposed to be nice again and I'm

My first day here, Effie and I travelled to the beach.  It was so windy, and although it was sunny, it wasn't that warm. Crazy locals thought this was lying on the beach weather (so long as you are fully clothed?)! I think I found Grandma and Pappa's perfect car - a VW and named after the family! Inside the Rijksmuseum. The Night Watch by Rembrant is at the far end. That's Effie in the dark foreground.  The cafe where we had lunch was TINY and packed. The "floating" flower market in Amsterdam How much do YOU pay for your pop-tarts?! It was so sunny I couldn't resist taking some pictures on the way to work and back. Look at that blue sky!!! The Dutch architectural details are so much lovelier in the sun...

So I've now been in the Den Haag for a week and had some time to get a little more comfortable.  I've got my OV Chipkart which is kinda like a Presto pass and is used for all of the transit in the Netherlands. I take the tram to work everyday.  I've at least figured out where some things are in the grocery store, although I still get overwhelmed by all the Dutch. I've gotten used to having to watch out for bikes on the red path and I'm slowly but surely memorizing the map of the Hague. I mentioned in last week's post that all of the interns seem really great - and that feeling still stands.  Thursday Night Drinks (or TND for short) is a pub night organized by the Hague Intern Association for every Thursday.  I went last week and it was a lot of fun meeting all the new interns - apparently quite a few Canadians came in the week before me! I only stayed for a bit though - still trying to rest and recover. On Friday the two other new interns on my team, Brendan

Welcome back to my travel blog! This summer I'm working (well unpaid interning, yet again...) at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague, Netherlands.  I arrived on Sunday and will be working until August 7. So far the Hague is... cold. It feels like it is early April! If I was riding a bike home from work today, I definitely would have wanted mitts!  It's also quite windy because we are right on the North Sea and it rains frequently... soooo there goes any idea of summer. Pretty sure the 3 pairs of shorts I brought will not see daylight within this city.  I've decided the weather in the Hague is the anti-Kampala and I miss UG weather dearly. However, I will say the biggest benefit is CHEAP CHEESE!!! I can get Steph's favourite Boursin cheese for less than 2 euro.  I've been to the grocery store twice now - yesterday and today (I can't carry much in my backpack and it's right around the corner...).  Yesterday,