Last week went by like a whirlwind :-)
We had a bit of quiet time while staying with my parents the first few days but as soon as we headed out on Wednesday morning things got sped up significantly. Our hotel in Rotterdam was very close to the central train station so after checking in we headed out to the Euromast. I can't remember ever having visited it so after a short tram ride we ended up halfway up the Euromast with the wind blowing rather hard. Due to the wind they had closed the top since it would be too dangerous up there.
The view of Rotterdam was still very good regardless.
Just as we got to our hotel we ran into Bas so we headed up for some drinks to wait for Ed to show up. If I remember correctly the restaurant was called Humphrey's, which was quite enjoyable and close to train station Blaak from where we hopped on a train to Lombardijen to catch Cynic in the Baroeg.
On Thursday we headed to A-dam and stayed at the hostel in the Vondelpark for 3 nights. After buying some groceries we went to see "Puss in boots" which is a fun movie. We had to visit The Hague very briefly on Friday to pick up the translated and legalised marriage document at the Portuguese embassy.
In the afternoon we caught "Hysteria" (movie about the evolution of vibrators) and followed with dinner with Alexander and Steven at the awesome O-cha Thai restaurant near the Nieuwmarkt.
We slept in on Saturday and caught an evening screening of "Drive" which is an awesome movie! After a quick Thai meal we headed over to visit Joost and meet his girlfriend Aaltsje. His hair is fairly epic these days but obviously no competition for the epic beard I had in 2008 ;-)
The trip back to Funchal on Sunday went fine but I found out the hard way that booking a return trip while not actually flying on the first flight leads to cancellation of the return flight. So I had to buy another ticket for Asnida or else I would've had to leave her at Schiphol haha.
Asnida shot a whole bunch of pics last week but I don't think she's posted them online yet. We'll get to that asap.
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