Amsterdam ...
Oct. 9th, 2007 12:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inanedirkAs I stated yesterday, I'm back from seeing Oscar, Alex, and James in Amsterdam.
Friday:
I'd got the car Thursday evening, so I could start on my way early Friday.
That didn't do a lot of good though. I'd thought it'd take me around 5 hours to get to Amsterdam, but in the end it was more like 7 hours. Having a fast car didn't really help either, because there was just too much traffic on the roads in Germany to actually go fast. And once you're in Holland, you're never allowed to go faster than 120km/h anyway.
The original plan had been for me to pick up Oscar, and then drive to the airport to meet Alex and James, but in the end Oscar collected them while I drove to his place.
Linda, Oscar's gf, let me in and we talked for a bit while waiting for the others to arrive. We had Pasta Linda had prepared for us, chatted some more and eventually prepared our beds and went to sleep.
Saturday:
We rose early. Oscar drove Linda to the airport, while we watched teleshopping (I really need one of those electrostatic dust collecting thingies).
Later we took the train to the centre of Amsterdam. We'd planned to visit the Scheepvaartmuseum, but it was closed for renovation, and we went to the Rijksmuseum instead. My favourite piece there I guess was this one, mostly because when I first saw I thought "Who the hell has put up a photo here among all these paintings?!". Turns out, it's not a photo ...
Later we took a sightseeing tour of the city via boat.
We also walked around the place
(Mac Bikes - They crash a lot less often than other bikes)
and visited a few pubs.
In the evening we returned to Oscar's place, had food and watched Team America on DVD.
Sunday:
We watched the F1 race (more or less, I think I slept through the first half), got up some time later and started packing. Oscar and me accompanied James and Alex to the airport, and after returning Oscar to his place, I started on my way back home. Took me around 6 hours to get back to Lübeck.
Friday:
I'd got the car Thursday evening, so I could start on my way early Friday.
That didn't do a lot of good though. I'd thought it'd take me around 5 hours to get to Amsterdam, but in the end it was more like 7 hours. Having a fast car didn't really help either, because there was just too much traffic on the roads in Germany to actually go fast. And once you're in Holland, you're never allowed to go faster than 120km/h anyway.
The original plan had been for me to pick up Oscar, and then drive to the airport to meet Alex and James, but in the end Oscar collected them while I drove to his place.
Linda, Oscar's gf, let me in and we talked for a bit while waiting for the others to arrive. We had Pasta Linda had prepared for us, chatted some more and eventually prepared our beds and went to sleep.
Saturday:
We rose early. Oscar drove Linda to the airport, while we watched teleshopping (I really need one of those electrostatic dust collecting thingies).
Later we took the train to the centre of Amsterdam. We'd planned to visit the Scheepvaartmuseum, but it was closed for renovation, and we went to the Rijksmuseum instead. My favourite piece there I guess was this one, mostly because when I first saw I thought "Who the hell has put up a photo here among all these paintings?!". Turns out, it's not a photo ...
Later we took a sightseeing tour of the city via boat.
We also walked around the place
(Mac Bikes - They crash a lot less often than other bikes)
and visited a few pubs.
In the evening we returned to Oscar's place, had food and watched Team America on DVD.
Sunday:
We watched the F1 race (more or less, I think I slept through the first half), got up some time later and started packing. Oscar and me accompanied James and Alex to the airport, and after returning Oscar to his place, I started on my way back home. Took me around 6 hours to get back to Lübeck.
