Volume 2, Day 31
It was a pretty low key weekend overall, so this should hopefully be pretty short as I don’t need to go into all the details repeating myself on daily rituals.
C didn’t get back until around noon on Saturday and I had spent the morning on my normal activities. Though I had tried a few lessons of Dutch in Duolingo, there is no point in learning that particular language (sorry!) and I have started reviewing bit of French. I’m surprised by how intuitive the language feels. I haven’t really studied French before, but I guess there is enough French used in culture that it is hard to not absorb a little throughout the course of an education.
It was a cloudy gray day with intermittent rainfall. C and I walked into town, briefly passing the weekend market, where she picked up some nuts. She took me to some hill, which is where Leiden the town began before we settled into a coffee shop attached to the public library. The library or cafe closed at 5pm, and the weather was in between a drizzle and a light rain. We didn’t have umbrellas, but walked briskly through the market to get a fresh stroopwaffle, which is an amazing food item. We huddled under a canopy eating the thin wafer-caramel sandwiches. The drizzle stopped and we hurried back home afterwards.
There was supposed to be some sort of circus and fireworks out in “the dunes” and that was the original plan, except the weather seemed to make it less than ideal to bike out there. So by means of a backup plan, C cooked up a pasta dinner and we did a 1000 piece puzzle. That took the whole evening.
| Stroopwaffel | 3 EUR |
| Total: | 23.4 RMB (USD 3.4) |
Running Total: 11614.5 RMB (USD 1686.72)
Daily Average: 374.7 RMB (USD 54.41)