Most bathrooms in this part of the world charge 50 cents to use. Sometimes this is on the honor system, but its often policed. For this reason, men like to pee in public. Amsterdam is cool because it's got special public urinals to alleviate the problem of people peeing on doorways. Belgium on the other hand just has heavy fines, and funny signs.
View of the Nemo science museum from the 7th floor Amsterdam library cafeteria
Study pod
These were on every floor linked to a book elevator that puts books almost back where they belong.
Robo book sorter
Place your books inthe box to check out. 
View of part of the library
Fooling around during the hour bike ride from Leiden to the ESA/ESTEC space center since the busses were on strike. 
Me and Eric in front of an Ariane 5 nose cone/satelite mockup. Eric starts his job working on to p secret satelites at Boeing in LA next month. 
Me playing in the replica of the ESA science module of the International Space Station.
MMmmmm Belgian cherry beer at my hostel bar
From an awesome art gallery installation in Rotterdam. I'll post a bunch more pics of that sometime.
Antwerp
Antwerp. I asked an old man to take my picture here, but he said he was afraid of digital cameras.
So I asked some young kid to take my picture here.
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The library interior is awesome. I'm working now in my "office pod" which has a whole new aura to it now that I understand its true concept.
Have fun at Eric's tonight. He has a great sense of humor and seems to be planning to tour you around.
I like those buildings in Antwerp, cool stuff. Oh, and the no pee signs are nice too, looks like the guy is hiking or running while peeing.
So it turns out I'm an idiot, and those are NOT no-peeing signs. They're actually construction signs, and the slash through indicates that the construction area is ending. lol
Even better!
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