Greetings from Amsterdam! This evening Kari and I went over to the absolutely lovely town of Haarlem to walk around, have dinner, and… I did my laundry at a great little six washer place called “My Beautiful Laundrette.” Yeah, do we know how to have fun or what! I’m really posting to tell anyone who has been a (terrorized) passenger with Kari in the states and heard her say, “But I’m a really good driver in Europe,” that, in fact, she is! In our little Opel Corsa she made her way through the narrowest of streets, on (and off) the sidewalk, through construction zones, over the tram tracks… Yup, she is definitely in her element driving here in the Netherlands.
This is the students’ long weekend on which they should be going someplace besides Amsterdam. Sunday and Monday are holidays here in the Netherlands; Whit Sunday and Whit Monday, or Pinksterdag (1e and 2e). Three students are off to Heidelberg, Germany; another to Thun, Switzerland. The others would not – even with our pestering – commit to a plan. Some are talking about taking the train down to Rotterdam, or perhaps going up to Texel. Another was thinking about going to Belgium or biking to Haarlem. It will be interesting to see what they all ended up doing. Some should be reporting in with their own blog posts so stay tuned!
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