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 into beds. It was a nice trip most of the way with the compartment pretty much ours. But at one station a group of teens got on and took the compartment next ours (at one end of the carriage) and regaled the entire carriage with nonsense. Very loud shrieking nonsense.\u00a0 There was a huge sigh of relief when they got off at Rotterdam.<\/p>\n
Got to the hotel, dumped our bags and headed out to find the Town Hall – because we’re here for another wedding! Just noted the last blogging was from the last wedding in Amsterdam. Found the venue and Joe mentioned a place that does ribs. Well, we had a sandwich from the supermarket at the train station (oh yummy) and were hungry so early dinner it was. We had one plate of spare ribs and one plate of smoked ribs and decided that next time we get one plate – it was actually several ribs too far but very good they were. The smoked ribs were more like gammon, very interesting.<\/p>\n
We then had a slow walk (waddle?) back to the hotel where I’m posting. Probably early to bed as the wedding is in the morning and we were up far too early this morning (5am)!<\/p>\n
PS why we haven’t been blogging will be on Joe’s flickr page soon. Needless to say we are very happy to have electrics by just flipping a switch and not have everything covered in dust – though I bet our bags have a good amount of dust in them. But when we get home we’ll have all new electrical wiring, new lights, new ceiling fans, new sockets, and complete data wiring. Phew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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