Sean and I had been trying to organise a weekend break for a long time and now it was here.  Due to university commitments Claire could not make the trip.  However, she did say that I could still go to Amsterdam so I arranged it immediately!

To make things better just before I left for the airport I heard that my beloved Inverness Caley Thistle had won the Scottish First Division championship with a 3-1 win over St Johnstone.  My club is in the Premier League for the first time in its history.  Sean and I are up for a celebratory weekend now!!

Unfortunately, my flight was delayed by two hours.  It passed relatively quickly and before I knew it I was trying to decipher a Dutch ticket machine for the train to Centraal station in Amsterdam.  Somehow I managed to get a single to Amsterdam.  I rang Sean, who had already arrived, and arranged to meet him at the station.  As soon as I got off the train Sean was there waiting and we went off to our favourite hostel, the Stadtsdoelen, where our previous travels have started from.

Due to the lateness of my arrival (23:00 by now) we checked in to the hostel and went for some tea.  We found a place to eat and had a pint of Heineken each.  I’m not much of a drinker at home but Heineken in The Netherlands is good!  We spent most of our time catching up as it had been two months since we had last seen each other.

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