Sun/funday

So,  now it's Monday and we're back in good old Amster of the damned. Judging by the piles of rubbish that still disgraces the streets, it was a righteous crazy mess here on Queensday. We're quite pleased we were on a tiny island with no cars rather than here.
We've since had an amazing time up North, staying two nights at a beautiful little inn called De Greate Pier in Kimswerd (Friesland). Here's me enjoying a coffee in front of it this morning:

They served us a beautiful breakfast both days, too generous for even two food-apreciating people such as Phiroze and myself! Home baked breads, eggs, fruit, croissants with local honey, yoghurt, sugar bread, ham and cheese, lovely butter - even nice cappuccinos! 

Yesterday we slept in. Actually, Phiroze slept in while I played with my Mac. Turns out Phorize can sleep through anything (including the Vlieland marching band on Saturday), and we didn't sit down for breakfast until 11. We decided to hit the road towards Lelystad to visit the Batavia replica. We took a nice drive down to Hindeloopen, a cute little village on the IJsselmeer where we had a look around. We saw lots of boats, some sheep and even little ducklings!

Then we cruised on down to Flevoland, a lovely drive with beautiful weather (once again) and some great tunes. Don't tell anyone but we were both singing along to some seriously bad 80s pop. For a road trip, we've had everything going for us: a great car, freeway with new 130 kms speedlimit, fabulous company, great tunes, a fully functioning navigation system, lovely scenery and brilliant weather.
Flevoland is a part of Holland reclaimed from the ocean, where we visited a replica of an old 17th century ship from the Spice Routes. They are also very slowly building a replica of another 17th century ship.

After the ship, we had some late lunch/early dinner and decided to take the long way home, via both big dikes and our friend the 130 kms zone. Our car really liked going fast, so we kind of let it...

We got back to the inn around 8, where we decided that it was movie night. With plenty of Apple products to choose from, we had soon set ourselves up and watched The Kids Are All Right, which we both totally adored. Then, for the hell of it and because we could, we watched Chloe, which we found quite entertaining but not as good as the first movie. 

After the movies we were both still very awake so we had decided a few more rounds of 20 questions were in order.  It turns out we're better when it's 21 Questions and three clues. It was soon 3 am again, and the fits of laughter might have kept up a few of the other guests, but we hope not. There was also a throw rug on the bed which had some serious static action, so like the two geeks that we are, we just had to charge it and watch the sparks fly. It kept us entertained for way too long.  I had blue bolts coming out of all five of my fingers when I touched it, though, how could I leave that alone?

Then, way too fast, it was Monday morning, and after a fairly short sleep Phorize's 4 alarm clocks woke us up (well, I was already awake, and a certain someone wasn't), it was breakfast time. Our lovely hostess told us the legend of Greate Pier while we indulged one more time with gorgeous pastries and breads. Then, sadly, we were home bound. 

We got to Amsterdam around midday, where we returned the rental car, bought (finally) a suit (sleeve) for my MacBook Air and had some lunch. Now, once again, it's Mac central. Phizz is booking his trip to Germany for Wednesday, and I'm blogging. Actually, I'm done blogging now. See ya!