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Maurits Ertsen

@mauritsertsen

Interdisciplinary water scholar. And cats... Director of Studies of the MSc program Environmental Engineering at TU Delft, the Netherlands

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Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· 18d

We'll stay the first few days in St Omaars.

Side view of St Omaars cathedral.

Side-frontal view of St Omaars cathedral

Side view with details of St Omaars cathedral

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· 18d

Lunch in Mariemont Park.

Tree.

Tree.

Dry lion-based fountain.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· 18d

First day of the "proper" holiday within the holiday. Guess where we are going, slowly.

Lewis chess piece, the knight.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· 20d

Book five. Holiday reads.

Cover of "Stone Yard Devotional" by Charlotte Wood.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· 20d

Book four.

Cover of "Lost Children Archive" by Valeria Luiselli.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· 23d

Holiday book three.

Cover of "Late Vader", by Thomas Rosenboom.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· 24d

Book 2 in the holidays.

Cover of Lichtspiel by Daniel Kehlmann.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· 24d

She is!

A cat named Ginnie lying in the grass.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· 24d

Brilliant Ginnie.

Close up of a cat named Ginnie.

A cat named Ginnie on a couch.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· 25d

First book read in the summer holidays.

Cover of "Weimar" by Katja Hoyer.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· 26d

Holiday! 😄😄😄 First week home, followed by some weeks with travelling (guess the destination 😉), and a final week home. Books, cats, and seeing things ahead. Could be worse...

Chess pieces. Replicas of some of the Lewis chess set.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· 29d

Last morning in the archive before summer leave! 😃😃😃

Archival boxes and folder.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· Jul 12

An interesting read. Not a convincing one, not even close. Cherry-picking, semi-logical, huge steps (and thus gaps) in the reasoning, conspiracies. The way "scientific realism" is used is laughable. The typical "could have used a critical editor", if only the topic was not so serious.

Book cover of Stokes' "Against decolonisation".

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· Jul 11

Ginnie and Mollie like to stay close.

Two cats, one on and one under a garden bench.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· Jul 10

Karma om deze posts onder elkaar te zien!

Twee posts op Bluesky, allebei met cartoon een wezen in een pot.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· Jul 10

Very happy office cat Mollie.

Close up of sleeping cat named Mollie.

Sleeping cat named Mollie in relaxed mode on a bed, with a plush bear in the background.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· Jul 8

Freilichtmuseum Kommern today.

View on green space and houses in the historical open air museum in Kommern.

House in the historical open air museum in Kommern.

Green space and cross in the historical open air museum in Kommern.

Yellow flower with bee in the historical open air museum in Kommern.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· Jul 6

End of home office time. Ginnie agrees.

Bottle of beer (IPA to be exact) on a table outside.

Cat (Ginnie actually) lying on the grass in a garden.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· Jul 5

Lovely visit to the gardens in Arcen.

View on the Arcen gardens, part of the rose gardens.

Roses in the Arcen gardens.

Flowers in the Arcen gardens. Imagine seventies wallpaper...

View on flower peacock Arcen gardens.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· Jul 5

Hello breakfast.

Pancakes with cream and jam.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· Jul 1

Home!

Cat named Mollie on a lap outside, with shadows of Mollie and the person of the lap.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· Jul 1

In the train.

Interior of a Eurostar train that is supposed to go to Brussels.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· Jul 1

Waiting for the train to Brussels, in Paris Nord.

Eurostar train in Paris Nord station.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· Jun 30

Hello Paris.

Flowers close to the Eiffel tower.

Eiffel tower, which - let's face this - is a major symbol of Paris.

"Stop rats" sign close to the Eiffel tower.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· Jun 29

The trains did their best to stop you, but you won! 😉

Image of St George and the dragon, in the church of Soeterbeeck, Ravenstein.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· Jun 29

Hello Paris!

Street view in Paris.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· Jun 29

Waiting in Brussels for the train to Paris.

View on platform and train track in Brussels Midi Station.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· Jun 28

"Not super, thank you"

Malmedy church, with sign in French, German and Dutch asking "And your relation to God?", with statue in the back with a shadow of a finger suggesting discontent.

Malmedy church statue in the back with a shadow of a finger suggesting discontent.

Malmedy church statue in the back with a shadow of a finger suggesting discontent.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· Jun 28

Discovering today that Dahlem used to be property of the monasteries of Malmedy-Stavelot.

Part of a map showing the economic benefits from properties of the Malmedy-Stavelot monasteries. Dahlem (spelled Dalhem, from Talheim) is on it.

Maurits Ertsen@mauritsertsen· Jun 27

Good to be home.

Close up of a happy cat Mollie.

Cat Mollie on a lap. Very happy...