Getting home for Christmas was a bit of a nightmare, supposed to leave on the 19th Dec from Nashville but missed my flight. My fault as i was in auto-drive going to the airport, you know that place you go to sometimes when you're driving, you don't really pay that much attention to where you are and when i did it was too late, 35 miles in the wrong direction and not enough time to catch my plane, I'd cut it pretty tight anyway.
Couldn't get another flight with KLM for two days when i did finally manage to catch the flight got to Amsterdam and everything to the UK was canceled because of fog, at least that's what they said. It didn't look foggy to me when we arrived, reminded me of the exscuse British Rail used to make like leaves on the track or the wrong type of snow when the trains were late, not that it's any better now or so i'm told, finally got back on the 23rd December.
Oh forgot to mention had to que up for about three hours at the airport in Amsterdam to be told i couldn't get a flight till the next day, which made it a bit more frustrating, so from thinking everyone in Europe is more organised then us Brits, went to thinking no one knows what they are doing except us and get me back to England.
That delusion has now gone away, sent a package from the US on the 12th December to the UK it left the US on the 16th Dec for the UK and got to my mums around a month later. Took it about 4 days to travel 4,ooo miles and over three weeks to travel about 150miles work that out if you can, good old Royal Mail.
Cutting a long story short had to spend the night in Amsterdam, guess there could have been worse places to have to spend a night, so it was off to a hotel and out into the night, luckily met some one on the plane in the same predicament as me so we stayed at the same hotel and went out for something to eat and a look round.
Amsterdam looks a real nice place but when we were there it was freezing cold so only saw the inside of bars and the hotel, think you need to go in the good weather so you can get around.
Like is say am now back in the states until probably the end of February, getting in this time was much easier than last time. It didn't seem to be to much hassle but there again i did fly into a different airport, photo, fingerprints a few questions then have a nice trip sir all very civilised i thought.
Am going to try and do a few more blogs but when you are working all the time it's hard to find anything to say or the time to say it, as i say will try and do a few more.
The photos to the left are of my office, seems a bit empty right now but that's because I've basically closed it up, spent the last 5 months in here though. I was surprised when it first came bigger than the porta-cabins you get in the UK, 56foot by 12foot it had air conditioning which is a must in the south. The one on the right below is of my new car, which i don't have now just put it in as it's better than the one i do have.
Photos below are of what I've been working on for the last few month, a last view of site as i go out of the gate and the road out, check out how blue the Sky is, was about 75deg's the day i took these.
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