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The return to Amsterdam was planned a week ago. I wanted to see the city again … see how much my perspective has changed. We got at the train station 2 hours later than we agreed up-on :). Typically! I think I got somewhat lazy in this 1,5 months. Waking up at 9, reaching the office at 10. I will have real problems re-accommodating once I get back home as Romania is also one hour ahead.

Well we got there eventually but the other party was also late. We enjoyed a smooth ride to Amsterdam Centraal mostly glancing out the windows and chatting. The city has pretty much unchanged in my eyes, except maybe for the huge number of people (mostly tourists) walking down the streets. I felt like in Bucharest … simply too crowded and too noisy. I wished I could visit some of the museums there, but our crowd was so undecided … I learned my lesson: having more than 4 people around when traveling is not a very good choice. Everyone wants to go somewhere else, everyone wants to eat something else, everyone has different ideas on how to achieve these and in the end nobody gets what he wants.

I persuaded them to go on a boat ride on the most important canals of the city and we could have finally some quality time making pictures, glancing around.

We had a nice time and made lots of pictures, but I still don’t like Amsterdam :).

In the evening, we persuaded to go and see the “Live Earth” concert. Because Martin was gone to meet his friends, we managed to get all 5 of us into a car to get there :). We managed to catch only the last part of the show, but there were live transmissions from all around the world on big screens and some other entertainment like “Silent Disco”^[1] or playing volley ball on an inflated volleyball field. You can see the Live Earth theme song on YouTube.

After all was finished we went for the train station and after a one hour and a half we dragged ourselves in the warmth of our beds.

Cheers,
The Lion.^[2]

1. People with headsets on their heads were dancing in a confined area, looking like real morons. [»]
2. The song to this post is: Madonna – Hey You (Live Earth Song). Open “Lion’s Radio” and scroll down to listen to it. [»]