Nevok’s Keep

Ok…that was different than expected today.
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The cold pizza was good, the soccer game sucked though. Tell me again, why do I wake up to something like this??

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Gosh golly darn. It was quite a bit nippy out there…but the view was as spectacular in the morning as we hoped it to be.

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For some reason the night ended way too early. Reckon we’re still quite well in the hands of the European timezone. Let’s just say it was dark, the hour was in the one digit range still, and quite for a while so…and I was able to watch a game of soccer, and it wasn’t the second one of the day. Bleargh.

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Pity we had to check out of the Radisson and not take it with us. I just love their beds, the dial-a-yield kind of thing. Not that I’d need the diversity, just patch it up to 100 and I am good. Yeah, I could just as well sleep on the ground, but I just love a firm underground, those soft, sink-in squishy things…so not my up of tea.

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Hands down, one of the best things you can do for getting an initial introduction to a new city is taking a bus tour. If it is in a double decker with the hop on/hop off functionality and a guide who knows what he is doing…it’s great. So we try to do this whenever we have the possibility.

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So, today we had our work cut out for us. First, we had to pick up the rental.

Sounds easy, don’t it? As always, we had, through the German equivalent of AAA, booked a car. A compact, which always results in something like a Ford Focus, Toyota Corolla, etc. For an economy, we do seem to end up with a Hyundai Accent, which, considering the size, also is a really decent car, albeit a bit bland, but, hey, it IS an economy after all.

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5 AM CET: The alarmclock goes down without mercy. Yeah, I have to do some last minute packing, don’t I ever? A quick shower helps getting awake at least, considering how warm the bedroom was this night, it also helps feling like a human being again. Not that it’ll make much of a difference considering how long we will be on our way to Seattle…

6 AM CET: Picking up mother-in-law to return our car from the airport. So unfair, she looks way more awake than I do. Bah. Some people are morning people. Not that I wouldn’t be one, too, just that my mornings start in the two digit range preferably…10 AM is a great time, really

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Having had a rather good appointment across the border in the Netherlands today, I will elaborate on that one sometime in the future, I started my cellphone while crossing the border to give Mel the good news.

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…at least that was the idea behind it.

But I am getting ahead of myself.

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