Fox Trotting

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,