[Insert Dutch Reference Here]
I don’t know a good joke for going to the Netherlands. Wooden shoes? Maybe I’ll pick something up while I’m there.
We leave today for Amsterdam, to spend the weekend in the city center. We then take a train and bus out to Noordwijk (your guess is as good as mine: I’m saying Nord-why-k for now) for a week-long training/development thing that I’m about one month away from being technically barred from attending because of my longer tenure with the company.
My prior attempt to attend (in the Woodlands - not nearly as interesting) was foiled by that pesky hurricane.
We’ll see a few museums, probably ride some bikes, and get rained on a bit. Kristin will have a full week of shopping, windmill watching, and whatever else she can figure out to do.
I think I’ll save The Hague for a future trip, as I will likely be there at some point on more substantial business. It would probably be a train ride to get there from Amsterdam or Noordwijk… I really don’t know how it would best be done.
That will be fun, but I’m even more excited about our trip to southern Turkey and the Greek island of Mykonos, which will occur in mid-July.
Turkey follows the European model of crazily-long vacations in July and August. We’re going to take a few smaller ones and keep everything diversified a bit.
Work is much better now. Things have been really crazy with the government. I suppose the decisions will be finalized over the weekend and I might be able to talk directly with facts, but I would summarize that the Turkish market is seeing some drastic changes in atmosphere right now.
Feeds in Efendi are on a break right now so that I can actually have some waking free time at home. The AKP (ruling party in Turkey) is creating long working hours for me!