June 10 Antwerp

 So the first highlight of shapes was asking and receiving directions in Yiddish from a beautiful swarm of teenage girls in their beautiful shades dresses, tfu tfu tfu, or tofu tofu tofu as autocorrect suggests and I may consider switching to tofu tofu tofu after all.

First we went to the Jewish community of Antwerp on Terlis Street off Jacob Jacobs Street.  They were already eating tshulnt.  We had some tshulnt and talked and hung around and heard the usual conversation about everything that is wrong with American Jews (just smile and nod).  Then it occurred to me that we could still catch most of the service if we went to Chabad, and we did.

June 03 Ghent

 Today we went to the Museum of fine art where I saw the actual Van Eyck Altarpiece.  It is being restored and no pictures were permitted which was fine really, they would have been impossible to take.

May 31, 2023 Luxembourg

 Lunch at Cafe Francais asparagus soup and asparagus mousseline.  No asparagus vinaigrette Gratin vegetarien. Panel went OK, previous speaker had tech disaster, but we overcame all.  dinner at Greek place. Eggplant shoes, salad, chips.

May 30 2023 Luxembourg City to Luxembourg, Hesperange, Fentange, Kockelscheuer, Cessange, Merl, Strassen, Reckenthal, Beggen, Dommeldange

 Today we took Bike Tour # 1 PC1 du Centre through Luxembourg, Hesperange, Fentagne, Kockelscheuer, Cessange, Merl, Strassen, Reckenthal, Beggen, and Dommeldange.  We may have missed the last two.  We somehow lost the trail and ended up wading through nettles, but found our way home, at least.

We saw beautiful cows and grain,

wonderful dinner at Madame Jeannette asparagus tostadas, and we ordered the right amount

May 28 2023 Amsterdam to 's-Horgenbosch to Breda to Brussels to Arlon to Luxembourg

 

Normally this would have been two trains, but because of construction, it was four trains and a bus.  The transfers were mad sprints, and none of the trains had cafe cars as far as we could tell, but we made it and saw many beautiful cows, including some Belgian Blues.

May 22-23 New York to Amsterdam

Everything we have eaten here has been delicious, bh.

Vegetable omelette at Volkslust in the Centraal Rail station, wonderful.

Yunan black tea in the lobby of Hotel V Fizeaustaat, perfect.

Conchiglie arrabbiata, asparago and pizza ai funghi at Eddy Spaghetti, so good.

Eggs Florentine, Cibil eggs, and pancakes with blueberries, just right.

We are about two miles from downtown, which is fine.  We walked around Centraal Station for a while to see if there were any better bike deals, but ended up getting Mac Bikes again.  They have there speeds and are right there in the station.

Today we will mertshem see the Vermeer exhibition.  I have been working for so many months about everything that could go wrong.

January 21 Daytona to Sanford

Daytona-Sanford-- Highlights of today included some very elegant longhorn cows, goats, burros, many beaky, pointy birds (oh pointy birds, oh pointy pointy )sunshine, sunshine, sunshine, and the head of a little girl periodically soaring up from behind a fence. I am guessing she was jumping on a trampoline, but anything is possible.