Comments on: Photo Friday: Utrecht, Netherlands

By: Bernardina van Beek

Bernardina van Beek — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:58:50 +0000

I guess it’s okay for you to call a fellow countrywoman of mine ‘bitch’ and generally be critical of the Netherlands, while someone else can’t say you’ve got some rather basic facts about it wrong then.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:36:51 +0000

And you’re just like every passive-aggressive Dutch person I met while living over there, so at least some things are consistent.

By: Bernardina van Beek

Bernardina van Beek — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:54:04 +0000

You didn’t have much luck with your living quarters, but the pictures are nice. However, if you think Dutch food is mostly fried and the Domkerk is called Domkirken you didn’t pay too much attention, did you?

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By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:19:09 +0000

Wow, your photos are fun. At least you were smart enough to have a digital, I resisted the format for so long (I’m a museum and archives geek, long-term archiving solutions worry me!) that all I have from study abroad are 30 rolls of 35mm film. Luckily one of my friends had a digital and shared her photos with me.

By: jen laceda

jen laceda — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:59:27 +0000

Beer and a canoe (ok, kayak)? What a lovely idea!

By: Mandy

Mandy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:44:44 +0000

Wow that sounds like it would make a funny novel. I hope to spend 3 months in London next year.

By: Rhi

Rhi — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:00:42 +0000

That river is the EXACT same color of the Millrace, which runs through the University of Oregon campus. BLEH.

By: Katharina

Katharina — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:49:58 +0000

Oh gosh, THANK YOU for this. You just described all the things I would have described about Maastricht as well (except that Maastricht just has one river and not really any canals).

It seems like Dutch cities are always quintessentially European, doesn’t it? I’ve only lived in the States for that one year so I AM European all the way through but, sheesh, whenever I look around me in Maastricht or at your pictures here, I think to myself, Man, this is just like in the movies. It just never seems like people would ACTUALLY use bikes as their main means of transportation, or that bars and cafés could ever be that tiny and adorable, and so on. But alas, that’s Holland.

By: liza

liza — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:48:20 +0000

These pictures are sweet. Thanks for taking us down memory lane.