Thursday 16 May 2013 I woke with the birds at 4:30 a.m., still jet-lagged. We packed up, had a decent coffee in the local Italian café and boarded a tram to Central Station where we bought a ticket to Tilburg. The intercity train was incredibly fast by Australian standards, and it even had Wi-Fi on…
Month: June 2013
Amsterdam day 2
Wednesday 15 May 2013 We decided to spend most of the day at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. In order to avoid the expected queues, we purchased our tickets online and then discovered an annoying remnant of the pre-digital age: the museum required a printout of the tickets. And so we had to go downstairs and…
Amsterdam day 1
Tuesday 14 May 2013 We were relieved to arrive at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, but there was some very cold weather there to greet us. We caught a train to Amsterdam Centraal and then boarded the number 13 Tram to De Baarsjes. When we arrived at our lodgings in Reinier Claezenstraat, our host, Marieke, gave…
Sydney to Kuala Lumpur
Monday 13 May 2013 Our holiday began when we boarded a Malaysian Airlines flight bound for Amsterdam via Kuala Lumpur. We chased the night across the globe for 30 hours, and killed time by trying to plumb the mysteries of the tiny multimedia screen on the back of the seat in front of us. It…
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