Ewww!

It’s apparently “the ultimate in site stickiness” … how do web pages get stuck together? Probably a question better not asked…

Well what a great week I had in Amsterdam with Dave and Michelle. We flew with Jet2 which was reasuringly cheap and uneventful. No delays or hassle. Then we stayed in a youth hostel, which while it was a bit basic was comfortable and had a really nice chilled out basement bar. Quite a few cute american students too. Shame most of them were using their experience of Europe to down as much booze and smoke as much weed as possible before they went home. As one of them said, “This is my last chance ever, when I get home i’ll have to get a job and they’ll want to random drug test me.” Sad. ;-(

The days were spent visiting loads of museums and galleries and on one of the nights we went to see Boom Chicago which was a great laugh (good food too).

Also hired bikes and rode round the vondelpark and town…which was scary at first but quite exhilirating once you get the hang of terrorising pedestrians in cycle lanes!
Best museum was probably the Steidlijk CS (Contemporary Art) if only because I got to see an original Roy Lichtenstein pop art piece and a cool Keith Haring too.

Today turned out to be an expensive one…

I was already spending a bit this week as i’m off to Amsterdam for a weeks holiday tonight. So this morning with about 6 hours before I needed to head to the airport I drove into Leeds for some last minute shopping.

3/4s of the way there, the exhaust fell off the car…

So we waited 40 mins for a tow truck and then my little local garage that I use were absolute STARS and put a new exhaust on by 3pm, not a bad turnaround considering they had no idea I was coming.

If anyone need a garage in the Leeds area who are cheap but reliable then let me know!

Anyway, got back with the now fixed car with half an hour to spare before jumping in the taxi and heading to Leeds Bradford Airport to catch the flight…