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Op X-sas <opxsas>

	The Netherlands	875 jours il y a
	Ahh, land of the windmills, clogs, tulips, and a 2-finger head on your beer! Before 10am, we pretty much did a whistle stop of the country on the bus from Plzen and the train to Breda!!! Eindhoven - Utrecht - Amsterdam - The Hague - Rotterdam - Dordrecht and finally... Breda Home of the Van Meels (well, not Breda, but 20km out of it, in a wee toon called Oosterhaut, but Breda is the nearest big town on the LP map!) - John and Nancy, with whom we travelled the length of Vietnam, who gave us their address, never really expecting us to show up with our backpacks 4 months later at their doorstep! Only joking - they did expect us, and Nancy even picked us up from the train station, which was just as well cos we would never have found their house!! It's in a lovely new suburb where the houses are all built from the same style, but each with their own personal touch, and in an idyllic setting with a lake, some ducks, their very own village windmill, and a miniature zoo with cool goats, a squealing turkey and even a llama!!! John and Nancy have a lovely home with an even lovelier garden, and because we have brought the good weather with us, we enjoyed the rest of the day winding down and catching up in the garden, amidst blooming flowers and buzzing bees. They also have a huge collection of movies to entertain us while they're at work...what more could we ask for!!! So for 4 days we monged in front of the TV by day and enjoyed dinner in the garden by night, playing Shithead and drinking European beers...it was almost like being in Vietnam with them again, just minus the Saigon beer. We couldn't spend as much time as we'd liked with them, cos unlike us, they had jobs to go to, but we're sure we'll see them again soon enough! Amsterdam A trip to the Netherlands wouldn't be complete without seeing half naked women in shop window at The 'Dam, and see them (and a whole lot more!) we did with JT who joined us there for the weekend. The terribly wet weather didn't hinder our 14-hour binge drinking session one bit. The day culminated at Bananabar (yup, one of those girly bars where for 45 euros, we could drink to our hearts' content for an hour) where a vibrating luminous green cylindrical object flew (from where you'll just have to use your imagination! we can't say cos there are minors reading this!!) right into JT's G&T!!! You really couldn't make this sort of thing up! While Wean and I were doubled over in stitches, JT managed to get a new glass with a fresh G&T. What a waste of good drink, we say. The next day was a write off for Wean cos unlike JT and I, he didn't know where the line was (duh, like you don't know that already) and drank far too many double JD and cokes than his system could take. Still, we had to push on to Brussels - which we did, eventually!!
	posté par Op X-sas