Gent, illusive summer days and trips

Hi everyone!
I know it has been a while since I last wrote here. Meanwhile I had Varinia, Phillip and Keanu visiting, went to Luxembourg and Namur with Ana Paula and Andreia, Patim and Detinha came to visit, we had some sunny days in Gent, run the Gent 10K and had a BBQ in the city park! We went to investigate the night scene and clubs of Gent and to visit the Gent castle! And we had a wonderful dinner of 23 Portuguese in Gent! I know it is impossible to tell you all the stories of these last three months in a post, but I will leave you with some cool pictures:)

 BBQ in Blammersen, for a few days it was summer in Gent!

 Andreia and I at the Gent Castle in a sunny Sunday afternoon.

 Detail from the Castle.

 Portuguese girls and guy having fun at the Abaxo club (a gay club with awesome music!)

 With Nadia and Ana Paula at Charlatan, judging by the fact that we are sitting down the music must've been awesome... not

With Ana Paula in Luxembourg City.

 Andreia, Ana Paula and I in Luxembourg.

Namur:)

Vote for me to take part in TEDxGhent

I know my home video is not perfect but I hope I can convince you with the content! Vote for me to have a chance to take part in the TEDxGhent event in June
http://www.tedxghent.be/2012/contestresult.php

Sportsdag!

Spinning and African dancing during the UGent Employees Sportsday. I know... I am not the most coordinated person:P

A real vacation... wow

Last week I was on vacation, really... on vacation... I mean I didn't do more than 1h30 of work in the past ten days and that has to be a real record! It was a fun week, spent between Germany and Belgium, trailing history and sampling the best food in this part of the world. If you don't believe me, check out some of these pictures!

Pond ponies:)

Hi everyone,

Sorry for my silence... Between an amazing Christmas with family, magnificent travels through Lisboa, Porto and Galicia with friends, SICB in Charlestown and getting back to Belgium, I have been busy! Two weekends ago I went skiing in France with a great international crowd and last weekend was the Light Festival in Gent, which was pretty amazing! (photos on fb) But because many of you keep asking me about my seahorses and to post pictures, here are four taken today of my H. abdominal, AKA as Ana C. says barrigudos;)

Seahorses, reindeer and Kerstmarkt:)

So my pot bellied seahorses arrived last Thursday:) It was great! They were a little smaller than what we were expecting but other than that they are doing really well, feeding on frozen artemia and giving me a hard time with filming, lol! Friday I went to Brussels for Nikos name day party and I got to see the Brussels Kerstmarkt:)

My beautiful pot bellied seahorses:)

 Reindeer Andreia and I:) at the party

 View from the arch in Brussels

 Military museum

 Brussels Kertsmarkt

Night at the Museum

Yesterday was the Museum Night in Gent. Nine museums were open from 6pm to 1am for free and the tram was free between museums. We had planned a Dutch class outing to go to a nice Italian restaurant followed by a visit to the SMAK, the MoMA equivalent of Gent. The pizzas at the Italian restaurant were amazing and we tried five different ones because five of us decided to share:) Then we were off to the SMAK under the rain and walking (we didn't feel like waiting 17min for the tram under the rain).
The museum was crowded and after some drinks in the lobby we went to see the exhibit. I think that what impressed me the most was a crime scene with two people that looked dead and the opinions were divided amongst us between being models, fully clothed preserved cadavers or live people! I looked intently at the veins and at the chest to try and find any movement and saw nothing! But Sebastian swears the foot moved... I also really liked the nature inspired pieces, like the two intertwined circulation models which I look forward to use in a class lecture.