The Nederlands! (ISKL Enschede reunion)

Took off too early on Saturday morning and arrived at Amsterdam airport at around 9 (Dutch time). Met up with Jenny and Pieter then took the train to pick Dheera up at the main train station in Amsterdam. Walked around for a bit and saw some things... including Malaysian fruit! Then we sat down in the park to rest our tired legs and while Pieter went off to the train station to get Eamon, Jenny, Dheera and I went to The Blue House to get some refreshments and to talk about days gone by.

We went to get lunch (We all got Stampot apart from Pieter who had a pancake), opened up the Yearbook (where there's a great picture of Pieter 'dancing'), and visited the red light district (seedy as hell), walked around some more, had some drinks, then took the train to Enschede (where Pieter lives). Then we went off to Pieter's to dump our stuff and then off to the student union where it was pretty quiet, had some drinks then went home to bed.

The next day we went bike riding!!!! Which was superduperly awesome. We biked to Germany (Enschede is very near the border) then back to the Netherlands and went to the cheese factory and had pancakes for lunch, biked a lot more, then back to Pieter's for super duper dinner which his flatmates' had cooked. We biked back into Enschede town centre and returned the bikes then had a wander around Enschede town centre (pretty place), until Dheera left for his 5 trains to get him back to work on Monday morning! We then had a few more drinks in Enschede before retiring for the night.

Then we got up superduperly early for me and Eamon to catch our early flights home. Pieter gave us breakfast then left us to fend for ourselves on the train to the airport... or should I say TRAINS! We got on the wrong train, switched to another train (which I think was the right train but Eamon made us get off it), switched to another one, then switched to another one again, and we eventually got there, I got into check-in about 10 minutes after it was supposed to close! But luckily the flight was delayed or I would never have made the walk to the gate (do you have any idea how big the airport terminal is in Amsterdam?) The plane taxied for a really long time... I think we were on the 3500m runway.

So yeah, a very good time!

Pictures by Dheera here.

On not so great news, I didn't get the job I went for an interview for on Tuesday, apparently they are having financial difficulties and would otherwise take me on. That's kind of not nice as I came all the way from Birmingham to see them.

Back to work tomorrow...