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Went out for a very nice meal last night. Joe got a recommendation of a place in Amsterdam, Castell<\/a>, so we went to try it out. Very good steaks and we had a good time.<\/p>\n

Up early this morning, breakfast and last few things into the bags before checking out and walking to Zuid Amsterdam where we got the train to Schipol Airport. Had to find Joe’s train and see if I could get an earlier flight, had luck with the train but not the flight. I went down to see Joe off, then went upstairs and waited. And waited. And waited. Got most of the way through my book. And now I remember why I hate flying into Heathrow – it took longer to actually land and get to the gate than it did to fly between Amsterdam and London! And then it took two hours to get home, but at least the tube was running.<\/p>\n

Got home, started the laundry, discovered my computer is dead, and have stacks of stuff to sort. Work and tube strike tomorrow. Maybe I should have taken another day off!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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