After waking up at 4 am this morning and making it to my flight from Nice, I found myself in rainy Amsterdam at 9:30. Having arranged to catch up with my Dutch au pair from when I was a child in Finland, Nicole, I wondered around for about an hour, making my way past the canals, Dam square, Madame Tussauds and the Red Light District (I had no idea what this was at the time).
I then met Nicole for coffee! We chatted for a while and decided that instead of exploring Amsterdam (I had no idea where to go or what to do and I was very tired) that instead I would go back with Nicole to her house and rest, as well meet the kids! They're all very sweet and awfully cute. It's so strange to have my current life now collide with memories of my time in Finland as it feels like the two lives were worlds apart. We had lunch and I watched The Hunger Games while Nicole had to attend a meeting, then visited the beach and later had dinner at her home.
Before heading to the airport, we went to her parent's house which I had remembered going to when I visited Amsterdam maybe some 12 years earlier. It was really nice to see everyone after so long. I'm now still not home (16 hours later) and am waiting to board my flight back to Copenhagen. I'm tired as anything and can't wait to climb into bed.
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