These last few days have been hurriedly running around The Netherlands. Visiting museums, towns, cities, and a couple extensive parks and beaches. By the time I leave I also will have taken the bus, train, tram, and subway. That is assuming I survive the never ending stream of bicycles constantly headed my way.

A common fast food here that I keep running into involves thick fries in a little handheld paper triangle with mayonaise and a sweet peanut sauce, eaten with a fork. It's surprisingly okay considering how the idea by itself sounds to me.

I took this post's image after an excellent time at Space Expo, the country's space museum directly adjacent to a major ESA (European Space Agency) research facility. I'll have to be around on a weekend to get a heavily secured tour of that, but on the day I was around I still got to see some cool things. There was a Soyuz sent up with a Dutch astronaut to the ISS, a Soviet autonomous film spy satellite, and mockups of so many funky satellites!

Afterwards I went to the beach a half hour walk away. To protect the rest of the country, much of the coastline here is built up with grassy sand dunes. Some views have looked shockingly familiar and like some parts of Texas. The complete opposite from the flat, water, and green that I've come to expect. From the top of the last one before the ocean I took this rare picture of myself. I think it turned out alright.