For a Life Less Ordinary.
Well i’ve finished packing with just 10 minutes to spare before needing to go to the airport and I’m happy that I have everything. Great timing! So I’m off to Boston today, via Schiphol (yet again!). I get there at around 5.30pm their time, so that’s good timing to see a bit of the city, get some food and enjoy a few large Sam Adams!!
I’m doing some work near Amsterdam on Monday, and due to KLM’s bizarre pricing policy, it’s actually cheaper for me to fly out, stay for two nights in a hotel and then come home than it is for a day return. I’m more than happy with this though, because it means another most-expenses-paid weekend away. I’m staying at the Radisson SAS Schiphol Airport as it had the best package price and it’s a nice place. It’s out of the centre though, so I need to take a shuttle bus and then a train to get anywhere. No big deal – it’s handy for work and the bus barely takes 10 minutes. One thing though, it’s no good if you are here to party; the last bus is 11.45pm and you really don’t want to be taking a taxi unless you have a LOT of money.
I dropped my bags off in my room (which is great apart from the outrageous minibar prices…€4.50 for a Diet Coke for example!), grabbed my camera and then jumped straight back onto the shuttle to head back to the station at Schiphol and then head into Amsterdam city centre. The weather was good, which is a real bonus because it was forecast to rain and be generally naff all weekend.
Well, in a rather sudden move over a few beers with a colleague a few weeks ago, I have booked up to go back to the USA again…and I’m going a week tomorrow! The discussion led to me checking the flight prices with KLM, purely as a matter of interest. I expected to laugh at the sheer expense of the flight…but for a change, this wasn’t the case. For just £350 I have a ticket to Boston (via Amsterdam), flying home from JFK (via Paris).
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