Back - an update from then till now
Well I’ve been back at home for a month and a day, and I figured it would be time to write something in this blog again.
Geek stuff first 
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During my two-month travels in Australia and Southeast Asia I’ve been blogging somewhere else, as most of you readers probably know. With my own and others’ experiences I’ve now launched an improved version of this online travel journal service. It now also has its own domain and it’s called Fuzzy Travel (how I came up with that name I can’t really recall). It’s freely available for everybody who wants to keep an online travelogue / diary, and it has loads of nifty features. Feel free to check it out and let me know what you think. Programming this web service has eaten up a significant amount of my spare time since my coming home, but personally I’m quite pleased with the results.
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Although I haven’t written about it, while I was in Melbourne me and my brother Tristan made the plan to go and travel the Trans Siberian Express through Russia, Mongolia and China in October. Due to ’stuff’, this turned out to be a no-go in the end. So after I came back to Amsterdam, I re-enrolled at the University of Amsterdam to continue my studies. The only thing I can do in this semester, is writing my bachelor’s thesis. As I came to find out, that course doesn’t start until the second block of this semester. In other words, until the end of October I have (and have had) a fair amount of spare time.
I’ve been using my time so far with working through stacks of mail, showing Amsterdam to Ramona, seeing friends and family, fighting the Amsterdam Tax Services, cursing the weather, enjoying the weather, moving people, finding a new room, visiting Ramona in Munster, and well… programming. The search for a new place to live turned out quite well by the way. Within a month I’ll have moved to a new room: more central, cheaper, more social, albeit less square meters. Tomorrow I’ll sign the contract and get the keys. Yay! 
That about sums the ‘blog-gap’ up until now I think. The last topic I’d like to cover in this post is the following. I continuously get the question ‘How does it feel to be back in NL again?’, so I’d like to answer it publically. It feels extremely familiar to be back again, too familiar perhaps. Just an hour after landing at Schiphol Airport it felt as if I’d never been away. Whether that’s to blame on my relatively frequent leaving & coming-back-again or simply on the familiarity of Amsterdam, I’ll leave up to you. But although it feels like the six months I’ve spent abroad were merely a dream, I’ve had an absolutely great time on the other side of the planet, and I hope to carry those memories with me for as long as I can.
