Comments for Twice Mice

Comment on How I obtained Belgian Residency by Di

Di — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:00:41 +0000

Oh … I slipped in under the bar, applying before the language law came into being. Although, I did the whole, living here for 5 years, having married a Belgian somewhere along the way. The police visit was hilarious because she asked about my photographs and I thought she must have known I was a photographer … all my framed works were down and she had to explain … the photos of me and Gert. No wardrobes were searched though. She really wanted to go to NZ and couldn’t comprehend anyone moving to Belgium … it had to be genuine love

Comment on Zoom zoom by Cairnarvon

Cairnarvon — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:54:02 +0000

Clearwire looks pretty dodgy. I went to their website to figure out if they were satellite or some type of municipal wireless (the latter, turns out), and if they were related to the municipal wireless I helped install on the roof of our school building (no), and apparently they’re pretending OFDM is a security standard, and that the fact that they’re using licensed frequencies makes eavesdropping harder. I hope that’s just an idiot copywriter, and not their full security policy. Next time I’m in Leuven I’m going listen in on their “licensed frequencies” and see if I can make sense of any traffic.

I use Telenet as well. People like to complain about prices and download limits, but the main ISPs are pretty solid most of the time, especially if you’re used to North America. There are some smaller resellers for Telenet and Belgacom who offer unlimited monthly download or lower prices, but they have a tendency to get shut down for not paying their bills or tax fraud or things like that.

Comment on Parc Disneyland Paris by FatBoris

FatBoris — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:22:19 +0000

So glad you enjoyed the Pirates attraction. it was “closed for my future enjoyment” last time I visited. Hope to go on it this Summer though when I hop on the Eurostar from London in June.
Booked with Short Breaks as planned the timing to co-incide with the new Next Gen promo what with new Toy Story attraction launching soon. When I went last I didn’t have an earlybird entry so failed to ever get on the Thunder Mountain ride - the busiest ride of them all. I queued for over 1hr for Space Mountain. I did enjoy my time there - just wish that the rooms had a fridge (I need to travel with medication and no fridge in the room is critical for me). Alison, the park is in no way as big as the FL one, and at times over-run with rude children pushing toddlers out the way for character photos and autographs. I just elbowed them all out the way when they tried to stampede my 2 yr old. I don’t think they teach the Spanish children manners at school.

Comment on Parc Disneyland Paris by Adrienne

Adrienne — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:44:27 +0000

WOW! great account - I feel like I’ve been there… thank you!

Comment on Teal by Adrienne

Adrienne — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:26:14 +0000

Thank you, dear girl, your blood’s worth bottling, as my mum used to say…
btw, you look so well and I love yr long hair!

Comment on Zoom zoom by Lilacspecs

Lilacspecs — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:06:50 +0000

We have Telenet.

Comment on Zoom zoom by Laura

Laura — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:56:17 +0000

Yay for fast internet! Ours runs out in a couple of months and I’m hungrily eyeing the internet/cable tv/phone deal that Ben’s spotted. I long to be able to watch the BBC again.

Comment on Walt Disney’s Studio Park, Paris by lianne

lianne — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:03:05 +0000

sounds like you kids all had a magical time (and a very packed itinerary)! you and adrian look particularly adorable with your mouse ear hats.

Comment on Middlemarch, by George Eliot by lianne

lianne — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:59:49 +0000

hahaha. all so well said, george eliot!

Comment on How I obtained Belgian Residency by Junaid

Junaid — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:55:48 +0000

Going through the wardrobe is quite normal in many European countries, though I doubt it’s effectiveness in finding fake marriages. I know a Dutch/Israeli couple that moved to Belgium to get married because it was so difficult to do so in Holland. Congratulations! I would die to get something like that. I never know what is going to happen at the end of the year cause I always have to renew the damn thing every year, that’s why I haven’t even gotten around to buying a car.

Comment on How I obtained Belgian Residency by cedric

cedric — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:57:41 +0000

Wow, that is quite a bureaucratic journey! But at least with Leuven and Saint-Gilles you picked some really nice town halls

Comment on How I obtained Belgian Residency by Laura

Laura — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:34:29 +0000

Congratulations! I love that they went through your wardrobe! I would say ‘only in Belgium’ but it’s probably not true…

Comment on French Update by lapuce

lapuce — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:48:39 +0000

Nooooooo! This is a nightmare. I spent all those years learning french and now they change the writing. You got to be kidding me…

Comment on French Update by Laura

Laura — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:26:02 +0000

I can’t tell the difference between the different accents… It all sounds the same to me, although I’m sure it shouldn’t.

Comment on French Update by cedric

cedric — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:29:19 +0000

Nooo I love the accent circonflexe!!
Here’s a little circonflexe fun fact. The circonflex often indicates places where the letter “s” has been dropped. You often still see the “s” in othe languages like English or Dutch. Of course this isn’t always the case because sometimes the workd have changed in english/dutch as well and only linguists still know the original word

In your example: Île –> Isle, but also Hôpital –> Hospital etc

There’s a council that decides about dutch spelling as well, they make such marvelous decisions like “Names of plants get an “n” in the middle unless that plant name has an animal name included in the plant name” And “Zonneschijn” (sunshine) doesn’t get a middle “n” but sterrenschijn (starshine) does, because there’s only one sun and there are many stars, however maneschijn (moonshine) doesn’t get a middle “n” either even though many moons exist but it is understood that we always talk about the earth’s moon when talking about moonshine.
Also they changed the spelling from “insekt” to “insect” for no particular reason

It’s pure madness

Comment on Parc Disneyland Paris by Jeong

Jeong — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:48:16 +0000

I love the hats! Most of all, it looks so much fun! Who needs America when you have Eurodisney!

Comment on Walt Disney’s Studio Park, Paris by Cedric

Cedric — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:22:30 +0000

“Sadly, for all the happiness it brings so many, Disneyland Paris rarely breaks even.”

It’s funny how you feel bad for huge corporations like Disney or for people who make fortunes like Britney Spears
Sounds like you had a great time in Disneyland!

Comment on Inside the Secret Annex by Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:23:08 +0000

This is really cool, i really want to go to amsterdam and go see the secret annix somtime but it will be expencive. I am only 13 so i will have to wait a few years before i can go. This stuff is really interesting and it makes me sad to read a lot of thisstuff about the jews and how they had to live. I really wish i could have met miep. She seemed very nice. My class is reading the play about annes diary in language and its really intersting. In 7th grade i went to washington D.C. and i got to go to the holicost museum and see the stuff that happened during the holicost. when i was there it didnt know much about the holicost and i had never even heard about anne frank but that ihave i would like to go back and see the museum again cuz i rember some of hte stuff and i would like to see it again because i aint guna be alive forever. I found this article very cool and like to know more. I would also love to see annes diary in preson

Comment on Parc Disneyland Paris by Amy

Amy — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:54:28 +0000

what fun! I got tired just reading it! Love your etsy hats - great buys!! LOL at the french character names!

Comment on Cambridge, England by lapuce

lapuce — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:39:04 +0000

I can’t help you on the Indian restaurant but I know a very nice place for cupcakes around here.

On the linguistic side, I enjoyed the time in France where I was not able to understand other people’s conversation in the tram, bus, cinema whatever. There is a lot of stuff you really don’t want to know.
Once you get to know the language better, you can’t avoid it though…