The original information sign of the IJmondroute bike trail.

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The original information sign of the IJmondroute bike trail.

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IJmondroute
An industrial town, covered in a blanket of smoke. That's probably what people think when they hear the name IJmond, IF they know it at all that is. It is not a town, nor a province, but rather the combined municipalties of primarily Velsen, Beverwijk and Heemskerk. They surround the west end of the North Sea Canal, the artificial daughter of the IJ "river". That location has spawned a sea harbour on the south bank and a huge steel-producing complex on the north one. Not everyone's favourite background for a relaxing bicycle trip. Yet there is a dedicated route taking you along the imposing industrial area and beyond: the IJmondroute.
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So it is the final weekend of my stay in France. My internship finished last Friday, taking place at the same time as Eid al-Fitr and a picnic with our team. I had a great time these few months, learning lots of new things and enjoying ‘het bourgondische leven’, even though Burgundy is on the other side of France. One thing I still had not done in all these months was seeing the Pyrenees. Which is pretty stupid, since I’m only 1 hour away from them.
Feu d'artifice Toulouse 2015
Quatorze Juillet (14 july) is France’s national holiday, comparable to Independence day in the USA and Bevrijdingsdag in the Netherlands. In Toulouse, the fall of the ancien regime was celebrated with a pyrotechnical show above the Garonne river, accompanied by famous cinematic scores. Too bad I wasn’t there in person; I had a lot of writing to do. Living on the top floor however, gave me the opportunity to view some of the fireworks, and the music was loud enough to hear all the way down here in Rangueil. And of course one can revisit everything on the internet nowadays.
It is good to be the King... err... Tsar

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These really are the best ever homemade flour tortillas, no one can believe how easy and delicious they are!
I have tried to make flour tortillas many times, but somehow I could never get it right. Until yesterday when I tried this super minimalistic recipe :D
A haunted house in Toulouse
I was recently wondering if Toulouse had any haunted places. Turns out I had unknowingly photographed one some weeks before. Maybe too much of a coincidence...
Carcassonne, France. 06 June 2015
The Toulouse Metro
Toulouse is gifted with the king of public transport: the metro, or subway as they call it across the pond. The city is the fourth largest of France, so why wouldn’t it have one. The metro system here is peculiar in a number of ways however.
Pentecost and HEMA
Ahh, Pentecost. Or Pentecôte as they say here in France. Or Pinksteren if you're Dutch. Today is the second day of Pentecost (Whit Monday I believe it is called in English?), the last of the spring holidays. Although it is a christian celebration, Dutch people tend to go full secular by making the traditional day trip to the IKEA. No such thing here in France; IKEA Toulouse is closed today, just like many other shops. Since the weather looked okay today, I decided to just go for a long walk all the way to the city centre. About 5 km from Rangueil to the Pont Neuf should be doable, even if taking the route along the Canal du Midi.

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It is important to draw wisdom from many different places. If you take it from only one place, it becomes rigid and stale.
Iroh; ATLA 209
Sayur lodeh, an Indonesian vegetable stew. With a student’s twist.
Frenchnesses
Ask the average foreigner about a Frenchman and he’ll probably think of a thinly moustached guy, wearing black and white striped hipster clothes and a baret, but always carrying a baguette around. Add an Eiffel tower to the background and a lovely Française in his other arm, and the stereotype is complete. A stereotype it may be, but there is a sliver of truth behind it.
Going micro with a phone.
So what do you do if there is microscope, but no camera attached to it? You just take your 5 megapixel smartphone and hope for the best. Not bad, I’d say.
The yellow arrow points to a macrophage, one of your bodyguard cells. Here it is a sunny-side-up-egg-shaped cell. It has developed thread-like projections called filopodia (orange arrows), ready to grab microbes, pull them in and eat them up.

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‘Drapeaux’ from right to left: Toulouse, France, European Union. This is the LCC building; IPBS is right behind it. They are both part of CNRS, the french national science organisation.
Toulouse 2015
Okay, I’ve been in Toulouse now for over two months. You are probably thinking “why the F is he starting a blog just now?” To be honest, it was a matter of laziness. It has become rather cumbersome to keep my family updated via e-mail and skype, my friends via whatsapp, myself in a word document, and the rest of the world via twitter. Blogging might just relieve all that by redirecting everything to one place.
A short overview of this internship in France seems to be in order, methinks. Why France of all places? First and foremost, I really wanted to go to a francophone country. I have always been a bit saddened by not being able to follow French classes in high school, just because my curriculum did not have the room (next to Dutch, English, Latin and ancient Greek). My internship however, is a golden opportunity to catch up with that.
The other main reason for doing this particular internship, is that I wanted to experience what is out there, beyond GPCRs and cancer. Infectious diseases have never been given much attention during my university years. Now that I’m studying the interactions between us humans and mycobacteria (the microbes that cause tuberculosis), I realise how versatile and wide the fields of microbiology and biochemistry can be.
Enfin, in a nutshell: I’m now at 2 months out of 4½ of an internship taking place at the Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale (IPBS) in Toulouse, studying how mycobacteria interact with our immune system. All this while living on my own in student dorms for the very first time.