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July 21, 2006

Back in A'dam

Here I am typing at Schipol since there is an internet terminal right next to my gate to board to Copehagen. Score. I can smell smoke from the Heineken pub and all the sounds, sights and smells are coming back to me. It is all I can do from hoping on a train to Centraal Station and renting myself a bike. Three people have spoken to me in Dutch so my new pumas must cut the euro dress code. One woman asked me about a "washa." I said, "wash?" "watch" "water". She said, "you don't speak english?" I still don't know what she was asking me or in what language.

Now I'm remembering why everyone here is so thin. To get to the bathroom I had to walk and walk and walk. There was an escalator down to the bathroom but not one back up. Since I have the heaviest carry on in the whole wide world I tried to take one of the only "lifts" in the Netherlands back up. It didn't work. I had to haul carry on and world's largest purse up some steep stairs.

The flight over was fine. My attempt to deprive myself of sleep the night before was probably a bad idea. I was lucky enough to have an empty seat to my left but I was afraid if I really got comfortable I would have ended up cuddling with the guy on my right. I tried some unusual perpendicular sleeping positions but now I just have a sore back. The guy to my right turned out to be very interesting. He's an American living in Norway with his 4 kids. He has lived abroad the last 18 years on 3 different continents and now he's considering moving to Fort Collins, Colorado.

Time to sign off! More from wherever I land.

Posted by jana at July 21, 2006 11:47 PM

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Posted by: becca at July 22, 2006 2:18 PM