Holiday of Selfies

We survived our holiday in Honduras!



Nothing was stolen!



There were no hurricanes!



We did not get a sinus infection from scuba diving...



... and we did not even vomit on the rough boat ride to the island!

So it's back to this:

Mexico: Isla Mujeres

We're back from our two week holiday in Mexico! We spend most of our first week decompressing on Isla Mujeres, an island across the bay from Cancun. We sampled Mexican food,

... (this barbecued fish ("tikin-xit") was so good we had it twice)...

... walked and biked around on the island, and even went scuba diving! We enjoyed the sunsets...

... and the pelicans...

... and sampled some of the margaritas.

Decompression accomplished!

I am not here

This photo was taken many weeks ago at St Johns, but since we are swamped with work here and have no time to have new photo-worthy experiences, I guess this is better than nothing.



Also, I think these photos of one of the resort's resident iguanas are rather awesome.

More pics from the beach

Sorry for the delay in posting more photos: Surprisingly (or not, if you know the people I hang out with professionally), life on St Johns is quite busy and somewhat stressful. You would not say it from looking at it...





The conference so far has been very good, although just two days of it were enough to completely deplete all my mental resources.



They may not look it, but these people work really hard.



I, on the other hand, feel more like this iguana -- you can have quite a fulfilling life just sitting in a tree and enjoying the sunshine...

Katwijk aan Zee and Wassenaar

We went to Lies, and did some sightseeing. On Saturday we went to Katwijk aan Zee:



... where we ate fish, both raw...



... and deep fried:



And on Sunday we went to the dunes in Wassenaar:

... with Westmalle Dubbel and bitterballen afterwards:

Vietnam Slideshow

Fully random and uncategorized!

not all Israeli food is great

Although Tuesday's dinner looked appetizing enough, my stomach has been upset ever since.

On the beach

In the evenings, we don't have to go to talks, so we can have a beer on the beach...


During the day, we do have to go to talks, but we're adults, so we can still go to the beach...