Maastricht/Leiden

So its been a little while since Ive updated this thing...Im into brevity right now so here we go.
Since last time I:
-saw Joker and 2000F
-went to Maastricht for Carnival
-booked tickets to Bloc Weekend Festival for Spring Break in Minehead, England.
-went to Leiden
-ate/drank alcoholic pudding/custard/mush

Now some pictures from Carnival in Maastricht.
Its like Halloween (if candy was beer) mixed with Mardi Gras mixed with Burning Man.
Everyone is dressed up. Everyone is drinking. There are "art cars" and floats. Big sound systems everywhere and on everything. It was amazing.

One of the floats:


This guy pulled us over to take a picture with us?:


The streets during one of the parades:


Him:


The pope who was passing out condoms:


Stuffed animal couple:


The center square with awesome trees and lots of loud drunk people:


I love this picture:


My mind after Carnival:


This last weekend I went to Leiden to explore and see my friend Brad. Leiden was really beautiful and a much cooler town than I had expected.

Huge windmill:


Mega Snuffelmarket? In 2 Hallen? Excellent:


This reminded me of Britney and/or Sasper:


Pictures of the town...it was so beautiful:









This is one of the weirdest drinks I have ever tried before. We had no idea what it was in the store...it was the craziest yellow color, was called the advocate and contained 15% alcohol for 2.50 euro. we had to explore.



Turns out its like some kind of egg white based custard alcohol thing...it was almost impossible to get out of the bottle. We had to treat it like a fucked up ketchup bottle. Slam on the 57?
When we finally got it out...it came out in the grossest way possible. Tt tasted like good mango custard within the first five seconds...but then turned into harsh vodka. Truly repulsing...but an interesting experience I guess:



Thats all for now.

Dubstep and Sex Funnels

Well...

Ive been here for over a month now...It really doesnt seem like that long. Ive already made so many really cool friends here im really excited about all of that and for the future. Im getting a lot of good reading in too (outside of class readings), which is helping to increase the balance of my mental state.

So apparently the school here parties on Tuesday night..which is insane but also awesome...it rages insanely hard till 4 in the morning at least (thats when the bar closes). So I got to experience my first tuesday party night and that was really awesome. On top of that I got to go my first dubstep show in Utrecht. It wasnt a purely dubstep show...in fact it was a showcase of local utrecht hip hop artists and djs...but by the time we showed up the hip hop artists were finishing up and then from 1:30-4 dubstep took over. Everyone got super down. It was insanely fun. And then getting to bike back along the canals at 4 am after going off to dubstep all night is unreal.

Im starting a music project with some friends I made here...so ill be sure to keep everyone updated on the progress with that...because seriously...well blow it up. alright enough. pictures:

Only in Amsterdam...the sex funnel.
I really enjoyed that the company who creates this modern marvel is called "secret moments"
I dont know about them...but i prefer to have my fluids funneled in public...no need for secrets:


Beautiful Wilhelmina Park next to the campus:


Random sexual art I found around town:



The Dom...This is at the center of the city and was created in the 14th century. It truly one of the most amazing pieces of architecture ive ever seen...ill be sure to get some better pictures soon:


Consider these mine:


The Culture Boat...the coolest/most mellow coffeeshop in town (also the best organic herb/soda/coffee/tea)


University Utrecht (UU) library...really cool interior design:



Utrecht locals hate this building...its insane and im not sure what to think:


Utreg Centraal...All of the hip hop artists at the end of the hip hop set:


The crowd getting down to dubstep (with two members from Randstad Rollaz):




More pictures to come soon (i.e. apartment, friends, music, etc).

doi.

New Email

I have a new email address....

N.Bernstein@students.uu.nl

scratch lousassle@gmail.com and jbernste@ucsc.edu.

im a ucu student now...so hit me up there.

bitches.

Things Ive Found Around Town

Bicycle parking garage?:


Random half pipe:


Random horse statue:


Afroshop? Karibu? All the advertisements on the outside led me to believe they sell cell phones. I have no idea what they are trying to say or imply here:


Funky President signs that are posted everywhere:


The coolest bicycle tunnel ive ever been through (it was about 1/4 mile long inside):

The Entrance:





Many of these were so big I couldnt capture them in one shot...:

The next 4 pictures:






The next three were huge (The middle shot shows the entire picture):




Heading into the tunnel:




My favorite one by far:






One wall which was probably 50 feet long was covered with a tree theme...some were inhabited by gnomes/elves:









Street art I found around Amsterdam:




An entire building:



Fuck the police even in Amsterdam? The police here are super mellow...they act like its watts.




Amsterdam Centraal:




One of the many museums in Amsterdam:


My house: