Travel – Foreign
To Cross to the Other Side, Just Cross the Dutch Frontier
An article in the July 6th NY Times on people crossing from Germany to The Netherlands to get cremated
June 22nd, 2005 by alephnaught
Cross reference to a book I just read
Read a good book by a Dutch author!
June 15th, 2005 by alephnaught
Amsterdam and Florence
This trip was a last minute holiday set up to follow leadership training I received at Duin & Kruidberg in Santpoort south of Amsterdam (yes, this is my fifth business trip to Amsterdam this year – you can look at other pages in the travelogue to see where I’ve been). ABN AMRO employees call Duin […]
June 12th, 2005 by alephnaught
June 12th, 2005 by alephnaught
Inside the Kingdom
Title: Inside the Kingdom Author: Carmen bin Ladin Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Warner Books (June 13, 2005) ISBN: 0446694886 This is finally out in paperback, so I brought it along for my latest flight to Amsterdam. The book is pretty good and a fast read. She’s obviously lived inside Saudi Arabia as a wife of […]
June 10th, 2005 by alephnaught
The Dutch-Muslim Culture War
Another article talking about the problems with tolerance in the Netherlands
May 29th, 2005 by alephnaught
Amsterdam and ‘s-Hertogenbosch
On this trip, I left for Amsterdam on May 24 for work and returned June 2. I had the weekend of May 28 and 29 off; this time my friends suggested ‘s-Hertogenbosch (or just Den Bosch, pronounced “den bos”), so I took the train there on Saturday; the only train is an intercity but it […]
May 17th, 2005 by alephnaught
May 15th, 2005 by alephnaught
Amsterdam and Arnhem
I left for Amsterdam on May 8 for work and returned May 19. I had the weekend of May 14 and 15 off; some of my friends from work suggested going to the Arnhem to the Open Air Museum (Openluchtmuseum), so I took the train there on Saturday; the sneltrain (fast train) takes one hour […]
May 4th, 2005 by alephnaught
Islamic Banking Grows, With All Sorts of Rules
May 3 story from the Wall Street Journal
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+Bob Hays
- I'm a father and husband, have two schipperkes, like to read, compose music, travel. And I manage a couple software development teams at DIRECTV.
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July 5th, 2005 by alephnaught