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January away...
Holiday almost away...
Up at seven...
Last breakfast...
Loads of unused juice and yoghurt and some fruit left over re the supplies supplied by our host...
All packed and ready to go...
Views from/on the House Boat this morning...
Final visit from the Peep-hens...
Leaving things as we found them...
And out...
Chat with owner Rene - a glowing review will be posted in the fullness of time (after all it's now 11 February when I've finally managed to get to this point in documenting the trip!)...
At 8am, a trundle to Het Funen (The Fun) for our final No 22...
Here it comes...
Into Centraal for the 8:30 train to the airport...
Arriving 20 minutes later...
It's rather large...
It took over an hour to get through security and passport control...
Unacceptable...
But we have to just accept it...
To the gate in plenty of time, 10:40 for a 12:10 departure...
Boarded an hour later...
The usual Schipol long taxi...
Take off just 7 minutes late - acceptable...
...and a flight soundtracked by an old podcast...
...with free sandwiches and drinks...
Touchdown at 1:25 Dutch time, 12:25 UK...
...and, amazingly, the swiftest walk through re passport control we've ever had at the shitfest that is Edinburgh Airport...
Straight onto an airport bus...
...and, at the foot of the hill, over the road for a just arriving 26 to take us back up said hill...
A further trundle down from the terminus and here we were back home after 173 hours and 26 minutes of fun (including the Exec Producer's birthday), between this pic last Saturday morning...
...and this pic this Saturday afternoon...
It was great to have been back in Amsterdam and our day trips to Utrecht and Haarlem were top notch too...
The weekend was still young...
The unpacking, reconstituting of things which had been unconstituted on our departure etc etc, ripping and listening and writing and surfing etc began in earnest...
And catching up on TV once we were settled back in...
Later on, today's CD Box...
Totally Handel...
Chose a 3CD reissue of a 1979 recording of “Serse”, aka “Xerxes”...
I like a cheeky wee (or large) Handel opera for my sins…
Especially good for soundtracking the start of a big catch up...
...from tomorrow...
First steps made tonight though, including downloading some new releases from yesterday's New Music Friday...
Lights out at Midnight...
Highlight of the Day: Home safe and nothing untoward has happened in our absence...
Today's New Music:
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