One more day

I missed my flight and waited in line for 5 hours to re-route my transfer. Good side is I get free food and the best hotel of the trip for one night in Frankfurt.
- Karl

Last meal

Dutch-made chinese noodles and well-traveled Italian table wine

Extra Cold

DATELINE: Amsterdam                                                    

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Author: Nick

Free wifi @ Hunter's Bar (smoking Allowed, no tobacco). James Brown on the hi-fi, a Heiny in front of me. Checking flight info repeatedly...

DATELINE: Amsterdam, Netherlands                                                    

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Author: Andy

Nick and I went to return the rental car at the airport (so we don't have to do it at 3am tonight) and got a great rate for the week (289 Euros!). Considering we drove it over 2000 km and through 8 different countries, that's a pretty great deal.

The problem is, the "giant" snowstorm that's been passing through has closed Amsterdam's train network, and as such we had to bargain with cab drivers to get a lift back into town. We wound up having to pay 50 euros and share a cab with 4 other people.

What's oddly coincidental is that apparently there's a giant snowstorm messing up travel in NYC too, except obviously it's a completely different storm altogether.

Amsterdam, NL

This is what Amsterdam looks like just now.

DATELINE: Amsterdam, Netherlands                                                    

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Author: Andy

The next time you complain about difficulty parallel parking, try and imagine squeezing a manual transmission Volvo station wagon into a spot with about 2 feet (max) of total wiggle room.

Now try and imagine that instead of parking up against a curb, you were parking up against the edge of a canal. A canal that you could plausibly (albeit accidentally) back the car into.

Nick pulled this off earlier this evening, and it was so amazing it makes me sad we have to move the car tomorrow. I wish we could bronze the car in place and have it become a statue tourists would visit. They'd read a plaque about what one can accomplish with parallel parking if you're really good at it.

Reach for that star.