It’s Finally Happened: I Have a Bike

I can’t think of a better way to kick off 2012 in the Netherlands than by two things: blogging again and buying a bike. Yes, you read right. After four months of living in the lowlands, and being hell-bent on refusing to even get on one, I finally managed to gather my nerves together and…

Aachen, Germany: Crossing the Invisible Border

Like all great things, the trip to Aachen, Germany, in the last weekend of September, started with a Facebook message, asking who would be interested in spending the day in the westernmost city of Deutschland. In the end, after many of our little group declined due to other obligations, the great adventurers team ended up being…

An Adventure is Only As Good As The People You Share It With

Quite a long title, you might think. But, on my four week mark (time flies when you’re buried under piles of assigned literature) in NL, something that I sort of knew from the beginning has finally materialized into a full post with pictures!   An adventure is only as good as the people you share…

Getting Lost, Getting to Know Another

In Lebanon, I used to pride myself on my excellent sense of direction- you could put me in any car and I would know exactly where I going. And I thought that skill would be transferable once I moved to NL, because I could read a map. Turns out, I was very wrong. Although my…

Walk, Walk, Walking On My First Day in Maastricht

Facebook is a blessing- and before you jump out at me and say that I’m already way too addicted to the social network, hear me out. You see, after I got admitted to the university way back in January, I liked the university’s page on Facebook, and one thing lead to another, and suddenly there was…