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September 19th, 2011 , 9:06
Back home, still no electrics, and back to work. Joe is also back to work, but still in Amsterdam. Not fair.
We slept in yesterday then packed up and got ready to leave. Didn’t know if Joe would have to move rooms so we packed everything and checked. He stayed in that room, but I had to check out. We had not enough time to really do anything, but too much time to just sit around. So we did a slow stroll to the train station.
At the station Joe directed me into a small cafe (Julia’s, I think) and said he was getting me a hot chocolate. So he comes back with a coffee and a cup of steamed milk with a stick sticking straight up from it. Hmmm, I wondered, how is it doing that? So I check and it’s got a block of chocolate on the end! Oh yum! You sit and stir that into the hot milk and get a rich creamy hot chocolate which is wonderful.
So we sat and chatted and watched people come and go. There was some sort of run in Amsterdam (looked it up and it’s the Dam tot Dam Loop – “Very popular 10 mile fun-run event with tens of thousands of participants. The run takes place on Sunday 18th Sep 2011 between Prins Hendrikkade, Amsterdam and Zandam in staggered starts.”) So we watched the people coming in either after their run or before.
Then off to the train. Not a bad journey home – the train between Amsterdam and Brussels was fairly empty but Eurstar was full. But got home, sorted out a pile of laundry and went to bed!
At least the sun is shining today!
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