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  "description": "May was an incredibly packed month, which sort of explains why it took me so long to write this post. Now that I have some time to go through all the events, let's take a look back together, and go through some of the things that happened in May!",
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  "textContent": "May was an incredibly packed month, which sort of explains why it took me so long to write this post. Now that I have some time to go through all the events, let's take a look back together, and go through some of the things that happened in May! ✍️ Website May was packed with real life events, which means I barely had any time to update this website. However, right before writing this post, I managed to update my Bluesky syndication to include the new new support for standard.site publications. 🍄 Life At the beginning of the month, some friends from Portugal came visit for a few days. It was a packed week. This time, I didn't want to give them the \"normal everyone does it\" Netherlands experience. They've been here before, they've been to Amsterdam and the randstad. I wanted to do something different. Winding Paths at the Hoge Veluwe The first day, we went to the National Park Hoge Veluwe, where we biked around 25km across all types of landscapes, from heathland, to forest, to sandy scapes, among others. That same day, we also had some amazing Dutch pancakes, which they had never had before. Salty - not sweet - pancakes, what an experience! The day after, we stayed in Eindhoven, since one of my friends was leaving that day. We took some walks, checked out a cow farm, had great noodles, and even managed to take a sneak peak at the swimming stadium here in Eindhoven. On the remaining days, we checked both Utrecht and Maastricht. In Utrecht, I introduced them to my favorite fries from Dapp, and in Maastricht to vlaai. Both extremely tasty delicacies. We also did some gourmetten at home, which is also very Dutch. A week later, Chris and I went to London to visit another friend. This was my 6th time in London and 7th time in the United Kingdom. Another reason to visit London was the concert and play we had planned to see, which I will write a bit more about below. The Stonehenge We did quite a lot: went to the Stonehenge and Bath, had a high tea at The Original Maids of Honour, saw and walked through a lot of parks, went to very nice cafés and pubs - including The Nightingale, if you know you know, and The Nelson's. I would summarize it as: lots of walking, lots of great food, lots of fun and entertainment. For more details about the latter, see below. 💪 Health I had a physiotherapy appointment for my wrist to check out how the exercises are going. Despite doing the exercises well, and not having pain while doing the exercises, I still have pain, and the improvements are not dramatic. I felt like the physiotherapist was expecting more improvements. That was a bit sad. Anyways, got new exercises and will keep doing them. Swimming lessons and other sport are also going well. I've gotten the physical diploma, so I finally updated the post about the swimming diploma with a photo. You can check it out here. This week I'll have a lesson with clothes again. Pff. I already feel the weight. 🍿 Entertainment There was a lot - and I mean, a lot - of entertainment this past month, especially live performances, fueled by being in London. But I'll come back to that in a second. First, let's go through the usual stuff, the movies and the series. We watched a single movie in May, Michael. I enjoyed it, as I did not have a lot of background on Michael Jackson, and I think the film gives a good idea on how he became who he became. When it comes to series, despite having watched a lot, we only finished the last seasons of Margo's Got Money Troubles and Abbott Elementary. Now, the fun part. We attended 5 live shows in total: 2 concerts, 1 stage play and 2 musicals. The first concert was Haute & Freddy, who performed at the London Calling festival in Amsterdam. It was very nice to see them live, despite being at a festival setting. I hope one day we get to see a longer concert from them. The second one was MARINA, who we had seen a few years ago in Brussels. The show was incredible, and, despite the venue being hot as hell, extremely enjoyable. It was a full circle moment for her. She performed at the Alexandra Palace, in London, and that's where she also signed her first deal. When we arrived in London, we only had one play planned: The Hunger Games On Stage. We had heard bad things about it, and... people did not exaggerate. It was entertaining, but not really... good. It didn't even feel like the actors were enjoying it, and the theater was half empty. Such a shame. Staging of The Hunger Games On Stage Despite being the only theater planned, we just yolo'ed it and decided to try getting rush tickets for other shows. Rush tickets are tickets you get on the day itself for very low prices, and sometimes - spoiler alert - fantastic seats. On two different days, we managed to go to two musicals. One day we saw Titanique, which is a parody of the film, telling the movie's events from Céline Dion's perspective. It was incredibly funny, and my cheek muscles hurt when I left the theater from laughing. Ah, and this was 6th row up front. It was a relatively small theater, cozy, and the vibes were just good. The day after we went to Kinky Boots. Mind you, just like for Titanique, we didn't know much about the show beforehand. We managed to get incredibly cheap third row seats! Third row in the stalls! In a theater with 4 upper levels. I really enjoyed it as well. The story was very well told, and... it was just a great musical. Seat View at Kinky Boots And let's not forget: there was a gigantic heat wave across (at least Western) Europe in May. It was hot, and houses up here were not built for it. Both in the UK and in the NL we got to some 30C degrees inside. Now it's raining again, and that makes me secretly happy. Happy June, and Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈!",
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