I just got back from a two-day mini-trip, visiting a friend over in Leuven: it was a good time, and I even got some research done at the library there (which is an awesome library).
Mainly we just ate some good meals together, drank some excellent Belgian Bier (I'm a fan of the trappists ales and especially Leffe Blond and Chimay Wit) and talked, catching one another up on what had been going on in our lives. He was also catching me up on all the departmental gossip (we're at the same University). We've been friends for about 7 years now, and hadn't seen one another since about August of last year, so it was good to catch up.
Damn, though, was that city expensive! Especially the hotels. I couldn't find one place under 65 Euros a night. And I was hoping to pay more like 30 or 40. The place I did find, I can sort of recommend, called The Professor. Just make sure you get a room on the topmost floor possible, because at least on the weekends and on Thursday (which I'm told is the big drinking night in Leuven) things go until 3 or 4 in the morning. I went to bed at 1:30 am and couldn't sleep until 4, and then had to be up at 9am.
Perhaps because it is a University town, there are not really too many hostels or places like that around. At least not that I could find. But had a good steak one night and a Croque Monsieur (mmmm...) the next day, and those were both delicious, so that almost made up for the bad night.
Today, I'm at my computer just catching up on emails. It's cold and rainy and windy out today, so even though I have the heat cranked and my window shut, and a sweatshirt on, I'm still rather cold. Brrrr... what happened to the 28 grad days of last week??
Reading an excellent new book I can recommend, the British edition of Gilles Deleuze's The Logic of Sense (Le Logique du Sens, I think is the French title). He wrote it (or at least published it) in '68 or '69, and it reads really well.
Make sure, if you can, by the way, that you get the British edition. Not that there is a substantial difference with the American edition -- both are from Continuum -- but I just find the cover so much cooler and more interesting. It's really colorful, a close up photo of a scrambled stack of playing cards, and the shape of the lettering on the title and author name is like something from a pulp-fiction novel. White bubble-ish lettering framed in black. You can see at least a small picture of it here: http://www.continuumbooks.com/(ke24rk450tj4pyzbg2mgfqrz)/BookDetail.aspx?BookID=12443
Contrast that with the US Continuum edition, and the Columbia University paperback
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0231059833/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-8896529-6652019#reader-link
Which would you rather read?
Tsch,
Daniel
Mainly we just ate some good meals together, drank some excellent Belgian Bier (I'm a fan of the trappists ales and especially Leffe Blond and Chimay Wit) and talked, catching one another up on what had been going on in our lives. He was also catching me up on all the departmental gossip (we're at the same University). We've been friends for about 7 years now, and hadn't seen one another since about August of last year, so it was good to catch up.
Damn, though, was that city expensive! Especially the hotels. I couldn't find one place under 65 Euros a night. And I was hoping to pay more like 30 or 40. The place I did find, I can sort of recommend, called The Professor. Just make sure you get a room on the topmost floor possible, because at least on the weekends and on Thursday (which I'm told is the big drinking night in Leuven) things go until 3 or 4 in the morning. I went to bed at 1:30 am and couldn't sleep until 4, and then had to be up at 9am.
Perhaps because it is a University town, there are not really too many hostels or places like that around. At least not that I could find. But had a good steak one night and a Croque Monsieur (mmmm...) the next day, and those were both delicious, so that almost made up for the bad night.
Today, I'm at my computer just catching up on emails. It's cold and rainy and windy out today, so even though I have the heat cranked and my window shut, and a sweatshirt on, I'm still rather cold. Brrrr... what happened to the 28 grad days of last week??
Reading an excellent new book I can recommend, the British edition of Gilles Deleuze's The Logic of Sense (Le Logique du Sens, I think is the French title). He wrote it (or at least published it) in '68 or '69, and it reads really well.
Make sure, if you can, by the way, that you get the British edition. Not that there is a substantial difference with the American edition -- both are from Continuum -- but I just find the cover so much cooler and more interesting. It's really colorful, a close up photo of a scrambled stack of playing cards, and the shape of the lettering on the title and author name is like something from a pulp-fiction novel. White bubble-ish lettering framed in black. You can see at least a small picture of it here: http://www.continuumbooks.com/(ke24rk450tj4pyzbg2mgfqrz)/BookDetail.aspx?BookID=12443
Contrast that with the US Continuum edition, and the Columbia University paperback
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0231059833/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-8896529-6652019#reader-link
Which would you rather read?
Tsch,
Daniel
curious - what's your field?