Just to keep confusing everybody: I am now back in Holland for a week :-)
I flew back over yesterday on my favourite airline and arrived an hour late due to a technical problem with the plane; luckily, I didn't have any meetings planned on arrival this time as I am aiming to beat my 27h max stay in the country so far this year.
Got to the flat where everything was in order-rather strange being back here after all this time, especially as all my personal effects are locked away. I will be liberating them in the next few days.
Went over to see Florian for coffee then waded through a mountain of post before heading off to Central Station to meet some of my good friends from Salym :-) It seems half the company is out here at the moment!
Somehow or other managed to organise things so that Simon and Nova, and Florian a bit later, all joined us in a little Eetcafe on the Laan van Nieuw Oost Indie. I thought I would show our guests the delights of Bezuidenhout-government building, government building, small dutch shop (closed of course), cafe, ambassador's car, albert heijn, small dutch shop (closed), government building, cafe :-)
We had a fun and enjoyable evening with Alexey and Tatiana (she is over for the week), Sergey R, Damir (replacing Ravil whose passport sadly wasn't ready on time) who is Vitaly (Lead PT)'s back-to-back so I have only met him to say hello and goodbye before, Florian, who got to chat with the 2 geos a bit before he heads out to Salym...today! (I must say I couldn't have asked for a better replacement-I'm sure he will do well) and Simon and Nova although I didn't get to chat to them enough due to table layout-got the whole week for that though! So, a Salym reunion, a G250 reunion (Damir and Florian), a G180 reunion (Simon, Alexey and myself), an EP00 reunion (Florian and me-though this one seems to be a recurring event;) and a Salym introduction all in one!
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