boston

like many québecois, we decided to spend the easter weekend in boston. after a six hour drive we arrived on m.i.t. campus (massachusetts institute of technology) around friday midnight. unlike our fellow québecois visitors, we were staying on campus, at johannes and karen's "family housing" flat, on the 14th floor and with a great view and a real miro on the wall (or that's what they told us!). we visited beautiful beacon hill, followed the freedom trail, and walked around on harvard and m.i.t. campus among the world's best students.

saturday was pieter's lucky day: not only did he buy himself a new music toy at a great price, he also found out his favourite band of the moment, loney dear, was playing in boston that very weekend. more about that concert in the next blog topic!

before the concert we went to have some pancakes with a strangely european taste. it turned out the pancake place was owned by a woman from antwerp. small world! there is still some work to be done on the pancakes, though: marie's apple pancake had coriander on it instead of cinnamon. a mistake from the chef, as it turned out. we kindly accepted free dessert to compensate marie's suffering!

sunday was marie's lucky day: she noticed some genuine schréder lighting in one of boston's underground stations. sunday was also "ronde van vlaanderen" day. on the picture you see johannes filming the online vrt broadcast that he gets through a belgian server, simultaneously filming and sending it via skype to a friend in florida.