Tonight, I fly out of the Netherlands for home... ... I slept terribly last night, not sure if it was from the jitters of trying to stuff as much as possible in my backpack, or from eating too much, or from eating too much greasy food, or sugar, or not enough exercise, or maybe I'm getting sick - but perhaps I shouldn't over-analyse these things...

Today Jose took myself and Olaf on a tour of Hoorn! We caught the train in, and first went to the Westfries Museum - in the most amazing building I have everseen! ( http://www.wfm.nl/english/info_e.htm ) They had the most random collection of items in there - a recreation of the dodo, furniture, clothing, bedding, coffee/tea/tobacco, clocks, pre...

I finally read (and finished! The da vinci code). So not quite an entirely wasted day! We did some shopping as well for cooking tomorrow for the family - it took me a while to find all the ingredients (everything, of course, being in dutch!). But the book was fantastic... i really enjoyed it! We had a traditional dutch soup for dinner - which i ...

We did some shopping in the morning - we went to Albert Heijn, then to the local shopping centre - picked up some drop (dutch licorice), salty fried haddock, and salted (raw) herring! We had the salty haddock for lunch - it was nice, very fresh (and i had my first taste of real kroepoek Oedang - large indonesian prawn crackers). Another quiet da...

I just spent a day at home today with Oma and Opa. We looked through some photos, did some shopping at the local supermarket. Just a quiet day. In the evening we had dinner at Ron and Joses's, they made some pasta and it was nice to have the family eating together again.