leaving utrecht by car — 45 kg of luggage is too much for a couple of olds to haul to the tram stop and then on and off the tram and then to the platform at utrecht centraal and then on and off the train to amsterdam centraal. (we vowed to travel light on this trip lol.)
#alas we should have booked the eurostar to lille a long time ago – of course it’s sold out, so we’ll be on the local
fred, it was so great to spend time with you and so many others that i have not seen in almost two decades. i had a wonderful time at the conference and who knows, maybe i’ll be back. lynn loves it here! (and so do i.)
A little before 6am this morning, police in Ann Arbor moved on the diag and cleared the pro-Palestine protest encampment, using riot gear and pepper spray.
From what I can tell there was no precipitating event to this, the protesters have been pretty civil and calm on the diag.
UMich President Ono appears to have just decided this was the opportune time, with students away for the summer, and so police did what police do, used violence to move out protestors.