@littlek,
littlek wrote:
I'm glad you made it. Did you get your luggage lost for you?
YES! They did a great job of it, too! They lost my bike and not my suitcase, which is PERFECT, as the bike was a nuissance to schlepp. So they will deliver it to.... wait for it.....my HOME address!
yes, ladies and gentlemen of a2k, i have a home. Right around the corner from a canal, 10 minutes to work, 10 into the center. On Crispijnstraat (my ole dog was Krispin, aka Crispijn). I have two housemates - an Indian (London born and raised) economist of some sort and a Norwegian employee at the ICC (the Crime Tribunal, weeee!). Both boys (egads), but the Indian one is very clean (his girlfriend was visiting and attested to being nagged about cleanliness, which is more than fine with me). The street and the house are incredible. 3 story house with brand spanking new kitchen (dishwasher, washer, dryer).. ginormous bathroom which is deep blue and has a tree in it (huge potted plant thing)...and a shower corner and a bath. There's a little garden in the back, and we have both a gardener and a cleaning lady (gasp!) that comes once a week. My room is big, also blue, has some basic furniture and I can move in on Wednesday, as soon as I'm done with this hotel.
I walked 15 km today, befriended a bartender around the corner from my office, saw the office building, royal palace, got an apartment. Haven't slept yet, and it's midnight. I guess it's just about time. It starting pouring the second I entered the hotel, in fact my left heel got wet, the rest of me was just inside...that must be a good omen of some sort.
Also, people talk to you here. Perhaps because I'm a single woman on prawl, but both at the bar/restaurant, on the street, they just start talking...in Dutch, but all fluently switch to English as soon as they understand from my vacant stare that I have no clue what they're on about.
Houses, some houses, especially on Scheveningenseweg are out of this world. My jaw dropped several times walking by..... but i'll be back with pics and more coherent stories as they emerge.
