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author: einar
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- General
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date: "2006-10-04T20:03:19Z"
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slug: dutch-weekend
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title: Dutch weekend
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wordpress_id: 114
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As the title implies, I've been over, along with my twin brother to my brother's house in Leiden last weekend.
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It was a fun experience overall. My brother has a very nice apartment in Leiden, big although somewhat empty (but that's the policy of the organization that gave him the place). Aside being **extremely** sick on the plane, I arrived more or less in time on Friday night. The following day we had a trip around Amsterdam, which honestly disappointed me somehow: while the streets, the canals, the places look nice, it doesn't seem that it has a thousand years of history. I've been to a museum, but I (sadly) couldn't go to the Van Gogh Museum. In the night we had a nice dinner but we were too tired to go around, so we opted to watch a film. My brother's girlfriend had a somewhat biographic one on the explorer Shackleton, made by UK's Channel 4. While I liked Kenneth Brannagh's acting, the extremely slow pace (200 minutes long) made me quit in advance and go to bed.
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On the following day we went to see the Space Expo, a permanent exhibition near my brother's work place at [ESTEC](http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMOMQ374OD_index_0.html). And in the evening we went around Leiden, which I find much more interesting than Amsterdam. I left on the following day at 4.50 in the morning.
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Overall this has been a pleasant experience, and I look forward to seeing my brother again on October 12th, when he'll get back to Italy again for a few days.
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I took some photos, but I have to wait for my brother to send them to me so I can put it online.
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