Rotterdam

Again only a small train trip took us further North into the Netherlands and we rolled into Rotterdam in the early PM. A quick taxi took us to the door of Rhiannon's cousin Kate's house where she lives with her dutchy husband David and their 7 month old Olivia. She welcomed us in and set us up with a great room in their awesome 3 level apartment. The next 3 hours or so were full of coffee and tea as Rhi and Kate caught up on years of family goss and developments. Later in the evening we met David who returned home from his day job as a genuine rocket scientist. The next day Kate showed us around there lovely suburb whilst David went off and measured into space without using light… That evening they had some friends from back in Canberra over for a very handy lasagne dinner. On the weekend we went for a sizeable walk though the large local parkland that was in the middle of preparations for a annual equestrian event. The smell of horse shit remains, and I guess always will, a smell of home. After that we sat down at a local pub and David and Kate introduced us to the great dutch food delicacies and frothies. Before we knew it our stay here was over and we were sad to leave after a relaxing couple days of entertaining the very cool little rascal Olivia. Thankyou very much for your first class accommodation guys!