The whirlwind tour or Europe. Well - sort of.

We're back from a two week spin around England and Holland. We'd planned a spring break to go over and see friends and relatives, and rather than the usual day and a half in Holland, we spent 5 days there this time. It was great - we got to see a lot of friends and spent some decent time with them instead of it all being rushed. We also managed to get in a lot of touristy type things. We visited the Keukenhof, went up the Euromast in Rotterdam and did one of the Spido boat harbour tours. We got to spend some good time on the beachfront at Scheveningen and we managed to meet up with a friend I've not seen since an accidental meeting at Schiphol airport a few years ago. In England we managed the same thing - lots of friends and relatives as well as some touristy items - the Bluebell railway and Arundel Castle. The Bluebell railway came as a complete surprise. Due to their hideous advertising, I'd thought it was going to be a couple of miles of restored line, a single steam engine and one carriage. Instead, it's 19 miles of line, full rakes of passenger coaches (both Pullman and Southern) and 10 or so working steam engines - big ones too.
The flights there and back were so-so and due to some bungling at Gatwick (which delayed the flight) and incompetence in Vegas (stuck jetway and broken immigration computers) we missed our connecting flight home last night and had to buy one-way tickets on the last flight of the day. $400 I didn't need to spend, but oh well. We're home and now wading through bills and emails.

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