{"id":877,"date":"2011-06-02T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2011\/06\/02\/dutch-days-reloaded\/"},"modified":"2011-10-02T07:13:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T06:13:11","slug":"dutch-days-reloaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2011\/06\/02\/dutch-days-reloaded\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Days reloaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently it is a cyclical phenomenon that Antennae from the Netherlands have a go at Brussels and honour us with their presence. After the very enjoyable <a href=\"http:\/\/aegee-europe.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/dutch-days-in-november.html\">ambush we suffered in November<\/a>, half a year later we have the next series of visitors from the North. Starting last weekend, 27th-30th May, with AEGEE-Groningen.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Traditionally, visits to Brussels comprise three main elements: an educational one, visiting the European institutions (in this case the Parliament that kindly supported this trip), a touristic one, seeing the city of Brussels which I still consider to be very attractive, if not necessarily spectacular, and a teambuilding one, having a great time with their Comit\u00e9 Directeur in the House &#8211; and of course learning something about AEGEE-Europe!<\/div>\n<div><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613637592959893538\" style=\"text-align: justify; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-a2vEkV9X_Tc\/TeelpgInQCI\/AAAAAAAAAD0\/FhR-fCa8HTw\/s400\/246774_10150284220711425_505016424_9443226_5847009_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After enduring my presentation with great stamina and only occasionally attempting to lure me into switching to Dutch (which I successfully resisted), we had a great barbecue evening in the House, and such was the atmosphere that our guests only managed to fulfil their promise to leave for party around 01:45. What underlines the success of this visit is the rare fact that all members of the Comit\u00e9 Directeur fully (and sometimes more than fully) participated in all the social activities. I can say with confidence that we achieved a nice little piece of European integration during these days! :-)<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613640630623653106\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ctt3uh76NNY\/TeeoaUUFzPI\/AAAAAAAAAD8\/9PJNM-gBuG0\/s400\/254901_10150284226726425_505016424_9443310_2822201_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A big thank you also goes to AEGEE-Leuven, who had a preparatory meeting for their Youth in Action exchange with AEGEE-Ankara, AEGEE-Burgos, AEGEE-Madrid and AEGEE-Pozna\u0144 and spontaneously invited all of us to participate in their city tour on Sunday. We spent a lovely afternoon in Leuven, and we are looking forward to visiting you again when the exchange is taking place in August!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But first, we are now looking forward to having AEGEE-Nijmegen here this weekend &#8211; starting from tomorrow&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Apparently it is a cyclical phenomenon that Antennae from the Netherlands have a go at Brussels and honour us with their presence. After the very enjoyable ambush we suffered in November, half a year later we have the next series of visitors from the North. Starting last weekend, 27th-30th May, with AEGEE-Groningen. Traditionally, visits to Brussels comprise three main elements:&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2011\/06\/02\/dutch-days-reloaded\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}