Slept in as we weren’t in any hurry. We had decided on the late breakfast, which was a champagne breakfast at 10.15. The early breakfast on Monday was mad as that’s the one everyone goes to so they can get into the park bright and early. Got up late, got our bags packed, and checked out before going to breakfast. Had a leisurely breakfast while discussing how we wanted to go to Amsterdam. We had a few thoughts about going to Delft or the coast but in the end decided to go the motorway the whole way. We went through Rotterdam, Delft and Den Haag just in case we decided to stop.<\/p>\n
The drive was pretty straight forward and we decided the weather wasn’t nice enough to go to the coast and we couldn’t be bothered to try to stop (read that as I couldn’t be bothered to try to figure out how to get into Delft and Joe couldn’t be bothered with seeing lots of art). So we headed straight for the airport and car hire drop off.<\/p>\n
Then back to Amsterdam by train and tram. Finally found the hotel. We can open the door but can’t get to the far side of the room without crawling over the bed! We decided to do the canal boat tour and to do the daytime one rather than waiting to do the evening cruise. Shall have to do that one next time! It was lovely pottering along and seeing Amsterdam from the canal. Then Joe took me off to a little bar that Olly had found. Very very good food. We had far too much to drink and a very nice meal. Now in the art bar updating the blog before heading off to sleep. We’re off home tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Slept in as we weren’t in any hurry. We had decided on the late breakfast, which was a champagne breakfast at 10.15. The early breakfast on Monday was mad as that’s the one everyone goes to so they can get into the park bright and early. Got up late, got our bags packed, and checked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4T97-3F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":446,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/16\/delft\/","url_meta":{"origin":227,"position":0},"title":"Delft","date":"Friday, 16 September 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"One good thing about being in the office yesterday was I got cake! Birthday cake. Celebrating 40 years of action. After Joe had his meeting we headed out with some of his colleagues and had dinner. It was a very nice evening. This morning the alarm went off and we\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":444,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/15\/the-office\/","url_meta":{"origin":227,"position":1},"title":"The Office","date":"Thursday, 15 September 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Today was relaxing day. Up when we woke up, then breakfast, then off to the station to get our tickets to Delft. The day is so nice we decided we didn't want to spend it in a museum - sun out and warm so we walked from the station along\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":223,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/25\/efteling\/","url_meta":{"origin":227,"position":2},"title":"Efteling","date":"Monday, 25 August 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Is a nifty park! I woke up at 7 but we couldn\u00c2\u00b4t go into the park until about 9.45, so we had breakfast and a bimble and an update of the blog, then headed into the park. The nifty rollercoaster, Python, was shut. Joe looked rather relieved but I was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Frog Blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":441,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/14\/small-wedding-and-no-cake\/","url_meta":{"origin":227,"position":3},"title":"Small wedding (and no cake)","date":"Wednesday, 14 September 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Up early and got ready for the wedding. Had breakfast - interesting dining area with lots of little areas to sit in, so Joe headed us away from the large loud group to an empty quiet area to sit and have breakfast. Sat down, ordered coffee, and two German women\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":410,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/29\/friday-and-saturday\/","url_meta":{"origin":227,"position":4},"title":"Friday and Saturday","date":"Sunday, 29 August 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Up at 5am and away by 6am. Loads of time at Heathrow, eggs on toast but no watches (need a replacement due to broken band). Flight to Amsterdam fine. Enough time in Amsterdam to get to boarding gate, not enough to actually look around. The flight to Ghana was not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Frog Blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":438,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/13\/a-rib-too-far\/","url_meta":{"origin":227,"position":5},"title":"A Rib Too Far","date":"Tuesday, 13 September 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"And we're back and traveling again. Though not far - just Amsterdam and, hopefully, Delft. Up far too early this morning for the very full train to Brussels and onward to Amsterdam. Nifty train from Brussels - one of the old style with compartments and corridor and seats that slide\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}