Weekend in Amsterdam

For most of my life my fun fact has been that I lived in the Netherlands for two years. We lived in Rotterdam where my father was assigned a two-year assignment. The unfortunate part about this is that this was from early ’97 to sometime in ’98 (go vols). So I was two and don’t remember much of anything about my early European travels. But recently I was able to rebuild those memories from so long ago with a trip to Amsterdam.
   
We left Friday morning and arrived in afternoon to snow covered grounds. The snow didn’t let up until late that night but it didn’t stop us from exploring. We headed out to see the city and immediately got some “frites”(Dutch fries) and an unhealthy amount Stroop waffles-one of my favorite foods. We were all soaked from the snow and soon decided to head back to the hostel.

With much warmer weather Saturday, we enjoyed a canal tour and a couple of parks. We also tried out some different street foods and the best Gouda cheese I’ve ever had. The amount of bikes zooming around was incredible. Crossing the street is tricky since you have to check both ways around 4 times to actually reach the other side. Mikhail nearly learned this the hard way after several close calls.

Things are going well back in London. Statistics class was challenging at times but the good people of flat 14 are helped to keep me (somewhat) sane. There is never a dull moment in our flat between the 7 of us!






Pictured below is young me in a cheese market in ’98 and my return 18 years later.

Flat 14 Spaghetti night..plus Rani and Abbey. I think we made enough spaghetti for 15 people.

-Adam Miller