Day 84
Day 84
Saturday, November 4, 2006
Utrecht, Netherlands
Today I woke up and took a shower, before going downstairs to discover that Cheddar had made eggs for breakfast. After eating and then helping Kent with the dishes I talked to some British animation students who were there to go to an animation festival that weekend. We confirmed the location of some buildings on the internet and then took a bus out to the University of Utrecht. It was like an architectural wonderland, almost every time we went around a corner I recognized another building from a magazine, but even the ones that I didn’t recognize were really cool. The whole university transitioned from huge buildings to farmland even faster than at Montana State. We took a walk out along one of the paths next to a canal and found some huge (Clydesdale?) horses. A lot of the farmhouses around there still had thatched roofs, and almost all of them were accompanied by Concrete WWII bomb shelters that had iron hooks sticking out of the roofs, probably to hold thatch to disguise them we speculated. There were buildings by UN Studio, Erick van Egeraat, Rem Koolhaus, Wiel Arets, as well as some cool prefab student housing. We took a bus back into the city and hit up a coffee shop before we went to the train station. Cheddar and I tried to take a train south a couple of kilometers to find the Aluminum Forest building but the tracks were under construction, and we couldn’t locate the bus that the sign said to use. We bought some french fries with mayo from a fry stand and then went and ate them on a bench by the canal where Kent was sketching. We hung out at the hostel where some African musicians were staying and they played on the instruments. Kent made dinner that night, and we watched South Park on TV with the animation students. We got our fill of the free internet before going to bed.
Saturday, November 4, 2006
Utrecht, Netherlands
Today I woke up and took a shower, before going downstairs to discover that Cheddar had made eggs for breakfast. After eating and then helping Kent with the dishes I talked to some British animation students who were there to go to an animation festival that weekend. We confirmed the location of some buildings on the internet and then took a bus out to the University of Utrecht. It was like an architectural wonderland, almost every time we went around a corner I recognized another building from a magazine, but even the ones that I didn’t recognize were really cool. The whole university transitioned from huge buildings to farmland even faster than at Montana State. We took a walk out along one of the paths next to a canal and found some huge (Clydesdale?) horses. A lot of the farmhouses around there still had thatched roofs, and almost all of them were accompanied by Concrete WWII bomb shelters that had iron hooks sticking out of the roofs, probably to hold thatch to disguise them we speculated. There were buildings by UN Studio, Erick van Egeraat, Rem Koolhaus, Wiel Arets, as well as some cool prefab student housing. We took a bus back into the city and hit up a coffee shop before we went to the train station. Cheddar and I tried to take a train south a couple of kilometers to find the Aluminum Forest building but the tracks were under construction, and we couldn’t locate the bus that the sign said to use. We bought some french fries with mayo from a fry stand and then went and ate them on a bench by the canal where Kent was sketching. We hung out at the hostel where some African musicians were staying and they played on the instruments. Kent made dinner that night, and we watched South Park on TV with the animation students. We got our fill of the free internet before going to bed.
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