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30 december 2018

One Year Australia

One year Australia, it all happened so fast PhD life, parties, road trips, I for sure had a blast Met incredible people, couldn’t have wished for better Made friends for life who made this adventure matter The beginning of PhD life started ...

Sydney - Australië

22 december 2018

Flessenpost 17: A day in the life of a PhD student

I have been asked many times how PhD life is, what I do and specifically what my average day looks like. Let’s start with the cliché that there is no average day. For example, take 2pm. At that time, I could be doing research, teaching, tutoring, ...

Sydney - Australië

11 oktober 2018

Flessenpost 16: So you think you can dance

After last semesters (failed) rowing and volleyball career, I needed a new sport to get me to the Olympics (or maybe aiming a little lower, just for fun and to stay fit and active). Rowing was too much hassle with getting up at 4am and their program ...

Sydney - Australië

15 augustus 2018

Flessenpost 15: The Cockroach War

KrgSmwfkgwfwfsoweosfhawekfrakrak I wake up to an unfamiliar sound and for a second I thought my housemate’s dog had gotten into my room. But no, that can’t be it. I always close my door at night. Still not fully awake, I am trying to make ...

Sydney - Australië

15 augustus 2018

Flessenpost 14: The mountains are calling

The 20 degrees breezy Sydney temperature can hardly be called winter, so time to escape the city and head to the mountains for some real winter and snow fun. As much as the city tried with overpriced mediocre mulled wine and raclette at Bastille ...

Jindabyne - Australië

11 juli 2018

Flessenpost 13: A Taste of Autumn

Autumn in Australia started out with 25 degrees instead of 30 and a couple of less visits to the beach. All in all, there was no sign that summer had changed into Autumn. And for a long time every end twenties weekend I kept thinking that was going ...

Sydney - Australië

26 juni 2018

Flessenpost 12: The ACFR volleyball team

All ready for our final game of the season we walk up to the volleyball court, although it felt more like dead man walking. To be honest the season didn’t exactly start out great, but after losing the first 3 games we somehow got the hang of it ...

Sydney - Australië

2 juni 2018

Flessenpost 11: Easter Madness – Girls Road Trip!

“Now I am gonna tell my momma, that I am a traveler. I am gonna follow the sun” That song was the theme song of our amazing Easter Trip with the girls to Port Stephens. Dilara introduced us to it explaining how whenever she was unsure about ...

Port Stephens - Australië

23 mei 2018

Flessenpost 10: Home?

(mid/late Feb 2018) It’s 6am in the morning, pitch black outside, the sun is nowhere to be seen and my phone indicates it’s freezing outside. This can’t be Australia? For a moment not sure what is up and down, I realize I am back in the ...

Sydney - Australië

21 april 2018

Flessenpost 9: Melbourne

(late January 2018) Back in my old town, back to the city where it all began 5 years ago, back to the place I called home for 7 months, back to the location I first set foot on Australian soil, back to my first taste of Australian life and back ...

Melbourne - Australië

6 februari 2018

Flessenpost 8: Opera under the stars

The sun is setting, the bats are flying all around us and the stars are slowly appearing in the sky; this night has something magical. With the tenor reaching its highest note, the orchestra swells up and the only thing I can think of is how much I ...

Sydney - Australië

6 februari 2018

Flessenpost 7: The move

Remember the building I used to live in in Melbourne? Well, I actually walked past it this weekend when I was back in my old town; Yep, that good old Unilodge building where I lived on the 12th floor, had such a good time and made so many friends! ...

Sydney - Australië

25 januari 2018

Flessenpost 6: Yes, adventure, please!

At a deserted train station, somewhere in the middle of nowhere and with the sound of thunder rolling in the distance, a group of lost travellers stumbles out of the train. In despair they look at the local rain and thunderstorm forecast, look at ...

Sydney - Australië

8 januari 2018

Flessenpost 5: Santa is coming/surfing to town

With a zero chance of a white Christmas, many beach days and a heat record of 47.3 degrees Celsius at the very last day of break, this first Christmas holiday Down Under was anything but the average Christmas break back in the northern hemisphere. ...

Sydney - Australië

21 december 2017

Flessenpost 4: Dutchies in Sydney

Well, I guess it’s official, I am not a Dutch resident anymore… It actually felt like a bit of an anticlimax that the moment I clicked ‘moved abroad’ and got downgraded from ‘Basisregistratie Personen’ (Personal Records Database) to ...

Sydney - Australië

5 december 2017

't Heerlijk avondje is gekomen

't Avondje van Sinterklaas Vanuit een land hier ver, ver vandaan Waar koala’s, kangoeroes en surfgoden bestaan Zal Sint jullie met wat zonneschijn verlichten En vanaf the beach ook wat dichtwerk verrichten Hagelwitte stranden, azuurblauw ...

Sydney - Australië

27 november 2017

Flessenpost 3: New in Town

Keep talking and nobody explodes.. Seven guys (and me) hysterically screaming at the one guy behind the laptop trying to solve the riddle and cut the right wire. The more beer, the louder the screaming gets. After the pizza delivery guy was found ...

Sydney - Australië

13 november 2017

Frequently Asked Questions

What exactly are you going to do in Sydney? I have just started my PhD titled ‘Motion planning for multiple heterogeneous UAVs for information collection in disaster scenarios’ at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics (part of the ...

Sydney - Australië

9 november 2017

Flessenpost 2: In-flight chit chat

After leaving the airplane from a 15hr flight with a phone number in my hand, it got me wondering about the weird social dynamics airplanes impose. The moment that door closes, the seatbelt sign goes on, you’re locked for the next 1 to 15hrs with ...

Sydney - Australië

9 november 2017

Flessenpost 1: Home is..

(For English scroll down) “Zal ik er voor het gemak maar Nederland van maken?” Ik schrik op uit mijn overpeinzingen en kijk de mevrouw op Schiphol die me een enquête afneemt verdwaasd aan. Een minuut eerder had ze me de simpele vraag ‘In ...

Sydney - Australië

PhD in Sydney

3 years in Sydney, the real deal this time!

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30 December 2018

One Year Australia

22 December 2018

Flessenpost 17: A day in the life of a PhD student

11 Oktober 2018

Flessenpost 16: So you think you can dance

15 Augustus 2018

Flessenpost 15: The Cockroach War

15 Augustus 2018

Flessenpost 14: The mountains are calling

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One Year Australia

Flessenpost 17: A day in the life of a PhD student

Flessenpost 16: So you think you can dance

Flessenpost 15: The Cockroach War

Flessenpost 14: The mountains are calling

Flessenpost 13: A Taste of Autumn

Flessenpost 12: The ACFR volleyball team

Flessenpost 11: Easter Madness – Girls Road Trip!

Flessenpost 10: Home?

Flessenpost 9: Melbourne

Flessenpost 8: Opera under the stars

Flessenpost 7: The move

Flessenpost 6: Yes, adventure, please!

Flessenpost 5: Santa is coming/surfing to town

Flessenpost 4: Dutchies in Sydney

't Heerlijk avondje is gekomen

Flessenpost 3: New in Town

Frequently Asked Questions

Flessenpost 2: In-flight chit chat

Flessenpost 1: Home is..

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