This week

His perspective

Wilson joined us for fondue

Tuesday’s drive back to Zurich was uneventful. Some photo stops on the way and we reached our hotel by mid-afternoon. I spent the month of November 2001 in Zurich when EDS was formulating a bid to buy the recently collapsed Swissair’s IT arm. During that time I worked with Andy and Beat and we have kept in touch since. Tuesday night we got together for an excellent cheese fondue dinner. It was great to see them. Thanks for a very nice evening, Andy, Beat, Theo and Anita!


Wednesday morning we flew back to Amsterdam, our recent “home away from home”. Bruce met us at the door of the apartment when we arrived and served us a cappuccino. It was a beautiful sunny day and we went for a walk to an outside restaurant on the Prinsengracht and then stopped at the market. We visited with Allen for a bit and settled in.

Thursday…it rained all day. A cold, hard rain.

Friday morning opened the same way. But it was time to get out, so we headed out down the Prinsengracht and Spui Straat...graffiti headquarters. On the way we stopped at Sara’s Pancakes and visited with Sara for a minute. We went past lots of familiar places, including the restaurant where we had an excellent dinner with Brian and Jessie and the bar we visited with them before dinner (no Brian, the Grolsch bar still does not serve Amstel)

We stopped for lunch and then made a slow return to the apartment. Tomorrow morning is the local street market where we traditionally get fixin’s for brunch. Then it’s off the airport to pick up our first guest.