Without a Traceroute

I was planning on staying at a hostel after leaving the houseboat. But it turned out all the hostels in town were booked up by visiting German goths. Luckily a last-minute couchsurfing response saved me from sleeping in the train station. I stayed with a guy who’s a map-making student here in Utrecht.

His place was actually interesting. In the Netherlands, when commercial properties go vacant, they often let people rent them as residences for cheap in order to keep out squatters. It’s kind of a weird setup, but you get a huge amount of space for very little money. The downside being they can ask you to leave at any time with 2 weeks notice if a commercial renter wants the property. Anyway, my host lived in this vacant commercial office park about 15 minutes by bus from the city center.