Episode 5 of Maastricht Minutiae

Episode 5 of Maastricht Minutiae is now ready for download at TalkShoe. Listen to it here.

This week we talked about:
- The new Star Trek movie & seeing movies in Maastricht
- Visiting Tongeren, Belgium
- The 10th annual KunstTour

Episode 4 of Maastricht Minutiae

Happy Mother’s Day! and more on this two week episode of Maastricht Minutiae. Listen to it here.

Topics Explored are:
- Queen’s Day celebrations in Maastricht
- A visit to the emergency room
- The movers dropped off our stuff and other housing stuff
- Talking about the IND and immigration paperwork
- IKEA & Kringloopwinkels

Enjoy!

Episode 3 of Maastricht Minutiae

This weekend we talk about our sudden overnight trip to Amsterdam for a one day conference Dan had to attend. I used the opportunity to go see a museum on my own and then on Saturday we checked out more sights and sounds.

Click Here to get the podcast!

Some of the things we mention on the podcast are:
- Van Gogh Museum: An excellent museum that really leads you though the life of Van Gogh and some related work from his contemporaries. The “And the Colors of the Night” special exhibit is going on until DATE. Link
- The American Book Club bookstore: An independent, English language bookstore with a huge collection of nearly everything you could want. Link
- Canal Tour: Cheap and not really worth the 8 Euros per person.
- Artis Zoo: A quality, in-city zoo with a large bird population. Link
- Verzetsmuseum (Resistance Museum): A small museum about the ways the Dutch people resisted the Nazis during World War II. Link
- Rijkmuseum: A huge art museum that we haven’t visited yet. Link

Photos from our trip to Amsterdam can be seen by Clicking Here.

We were experimenting with recording on this podcast and unfortunately, the sound quality isn’t very good. We’ll try not to do it again.

Episode 2 of Maastricht Minutiae

Episode 2 of Maastricht Minutiae is now available for download at TalkShoe. In this episode we talk about where Maastricht is located geographically, renting in Maastricht, and our opinions of our new apartment. I also give a horribly mangled rendition of this Pierre Kemp poem as translated by Google Translate. Free free to drop us comments or questions here and we’ll try to address them on future podcasts.

Click Here for Maastricht Minutiae!

Update: Please listen to Episode 2b for a quick geography correction from Dan.

Episode 1 of Maastricht Minutiae Debut

The first ever episode of the (possibly temporarily named) Maastricht Minutiae is now available via TalkShoe. You can also set up a feed for iTunes or another RSS gatherer.

Episode One

Maastricht Minutiae is a bi-monthly to weekly podcast about Dan & I and our adventures adapting to life as expats in the Netherlands. In this first episode we chat about why we moved to the Netherlands in the first place and about immigration paperwork. If you are the least bit curious, please feel free to give it a listen.

Next Entries »