May 2nd
Woke up and packed up. David talked to the owner of the hostel about s few things that happened in Aswan and he ended up giving us a free stay here and paying for our taxi to the airport. What a sweetheart! Thanks George! We checked some emails about places to stay in Amsterdam and then headed off to the airport. It’s going to be cold in Amsterdam.... we have our jumpers (sweaters) at the ready for the airport and when we get off the plane. We land at around 9 or 10pm...It’s going to be a long day...
Got on the plane and transfered. We a good flight non-eventful. The view was pretty amazing from the plane. I think it was Budapest, but where ever it was it looked amazingly beautiful with green rolling hills and trees with a house here and there. When we finally got over Holland that was an amazing sight as well. The farms are very geometric with lines of different colors going here and there like a quilt. Later we came to find out that they were mostly tulips and a kind of wheat...although we are still not convinced about the wheat thing...we have not seen bright yellow flowers of wheat before...
We got off the plane and found our way to the train where a nice man showed us how to find the right train for us, then we had to take another train where someone else told us how to find the next train.
When we got to the station where Jen and Wim live we realized that we didn't have the address so we looked for the phone number to call, but the phones here only take special cards so we found someone with a card and he was able to call them for us. We got the address and he walked us all the way there.
Jen and Wim are very nice. They are a married couple, Jen is from Borneo and Wim is Dutch. Jen very warmly welcomed us with hugs and then showed us to our room 3 floors up where we have a water bed.
We were pretty tired and it was 2AM so we went to bed.
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