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Sunday 3 August Another yummy Doubletree buffet breakfast. I kept to my Euro brekky and Mumma Katie kept to her more Aussie/Brit style brekky. I had to try the Smurfen Hagelslag ... it didn't taste like smurfs. I think. But maybe I wasn't being enough like Gargamel. :P The main agenda for...

Saturday 2 August ... last post about this one day!!! 🤣 We were thinking of going up to the rooftop bar at the Doubletree*, but were just too tired. We decided to have dinner in the hotel's restaurant, We are Edn. The restaurant is large, and part was cordoned off and not used at dinner...

Sat 2 August still We walk back towards the tram lines and grab a tram to Konigsplein and Spui. I googled for Pride merchandise, and found some listed for the University of Amsterdam. Way back in 1998 on my first trip to AMS, I bought a Uni of Amsterdam jumper which I have loved almost to death...

My guess is from LOTFAP.

Saturday 2 August still ... :) OK, so we make it to the Rijksmuseum, I have that stupid broken brolly with me and a large water bottle. I completely forget I have some Nano bags in my handbag ... this will be pertinent in a couple of sentences. We hang around the information desk, waiting...

Saturday 2 August, cont. After dropping off our laundry, we went to the nearest metro station to make our way to the Rijksmuseum. We get there and both ticket machines are out of order. :( A quick Google, and I discover we can use our credit cards to tap and go, so we do! Phew! We transfer from...

No paper towels, dryers only in BNE Intl lounge on Friday 5/9 and SYD Domestic J Lounge on Monday morning 8/9. Singapore F still had them on Sunday night. I saw the signs about paper towels not being recyclable ... and thought that may be true, but they are certainly compostable. Hard to stop...

Based on my experience in March this year, no, you won't.

Saturday 2 August - Canal Parade and Amsterdam Pride! And the Rijksmuseum, Stephen and Penelope and more! I was still a HHonors Silver at that point, and booked a room rate including breakfast. Holy moly, the breakfast buffet at the Doubletree Amsterdam is WORTH IT. So many options. As...

Friday 1 August - woke up in Brussels, went to sleep in Amsterdam Advertising outside the Hilton for their Smurf rooms: We went back to Lloyd for brekky, this time I got a cinnamon scroll instead of the brekky deal. YUM. To use up the morning, we booked a chocolate truffle making class...

I had a scan in early July that ended with the sonographer telling me that if I met certain conditions in the future, go immediately to emergency. :oops: Luckily, those conditions never occurred, and didn't occur while I was on holidays. Reviewed that scan with the GP, she sent me to the...

It'll be interesting if Cat makes a formal offer, shareholders accept, and it gets past the regulatory groups required. I went through ABB's acquisition of Mincom, so some things feel the same, but it's far too early for me to really know if it'll be in any way the same. Certainly probably...

Thurs 31 July - Brussels The Teen is apparently awake super early, eager/nervous to get going, so she and Mr Katie are at checkin before 6am for her 9am QR flight BRU-DOH. Mr Katie I think goes back to the Sheraton for a bit more of a snooze before checking out and coming in to BRU to meet us...

Now in hard exclusivity period with Caterpillar with an NBIO for $5 per share/option. I shoulda bought some shares or asked for options for performance when I started there!!!

Wednesday 30 July Mostly a day taken up with travel. IC 2013 Essen - Cologne ICE 23 Cologne - Brussels First up, last hotel breakfast as a family on this trip. Here's the magic juice machine. If you look closely, the multi juice is being refilled. The machine I guess weighs the flask and...

Alrighty, fully Platinum for this shindig, Mr Katie and me: Fri 6 Mar QF529 then 163 (can guest 2 into SYD FLounge) then Sun 8 Mar QF162 (hopefully not too regretfully) and QF512

He started using the bike on Sat 2 or Sun 3 August, we parted ways on 1 Aug ... :p Parted ways for travel, not our relationship! :D

I look at a picture of the Zeche Zollverein at work every day!

Tuesday 29 July, Essen (Nordrhein Westphalen/North Rhine Westfalia) I spent ages trying to decide where to stay in Essen, as I've never had to stay in a hotel there. If it was December, I'd be inclined to stay in town near the Christmas markets. But it was late July. I thought about the...

Monday part 2 My dinner Ruettenscheid high street at night Whoops, QIMR not Clive Berghofer, though I think his name is on the QIMR building?