[friday night in utrecht]

The local geological survey extended their welcome to me and made sure we experienced *real* Dutch hospitality (code for beer!). The Netherlands Institute of Applied Geoscience TNO - National Geological Survey (or just TNO for short) not only schooled us in science fiction and the merits of Battlestar Galactica (well it is filmed in Vancouver and most of the actors are Canadian...though that's probably not a good thing), Dutch accents (and the need to subtitle television shows because that eastern dialect is a whole other language), differences between American and *standard* English spellings, but also demonstrated rainy day fashion in the form of a fetching blue bin bag.





And they're all off on field work early tomorrow morning....