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Saturday 2 August - Canal Parade and Amsterdam Pride! And the Rijksmuseum, Stephen and Penelope and more! I was still a HHonors Silver at that point, and booked a room rate including breakfast. Holy moly, the breakfast buffet at the Doubletree Amsterdam is WORTH IT. So many options. As...

Friday 1 August - woke up in Brussels, went to sleep in Amsterdam Advertising outside the Hilton for their Smurf rooms: We went back to Lloyd for brekky, this time I got a cinnamon scroll instead of the brekky deal. YUM. To use up the morning, we booked a chocolate truffle making class...

I had a scan in early July that ended with the sonographer telling me that if I met certain conditions in the future, go immediately to emergency. :oops: Luckily, those conditions never occurred, and didn't occur while I was on holidays. Reviewed that scan with the GP, she sent me to the...

It'll be interesting if Cat makes a formal offer, shareholders accept, and it gets past the regulatory groups required. I went through ABB's acquisition of Mincom, so some things feel the same, but it's far too early for me to really know if it'll be in any way the same. Certainly probably...

Thurs 31 July - Brussels The Teen is apparently awake super early, eager/nervous to get going, so she and Mr Katie are at checkin before 6am for her 9am QR flight BRU-DOH. Mr Katie I think goes back to the Sheraton for a bit more of a snooze before checking out and coming in to BRU to meet us...

Now in hard exclusivity period with Caterpillar with an NBIO for $5 per share/option. I shoulda bought some shares or asked for options for performance when I started there!!!

Wednesday 30 July Mostly a day taken up with travel. IC 2013 Essen - Cologne ICE 23 Cologne - Brussels First up, last hotel breakfast as a family on this trip. Here's the magic juice machine. If you look closely, the multi juice is being refilled. The machine I guess weighs the flask and...

Alrighty, fully Platinum for this shindig, Mr Katie and me: Fri 6 Mar QF529 then 163 (can guest 2 into SYD FLounge) then Sun 8 Mar QF162 (hopefully not too regretfully) and QF512

He started using the bike on Sat 2 or Sun 3 August, we parted ways on 1 Aug ... :p Parted ways for travel, not our relationship! :D

I look at a picture of the Zeche Zollverein at work every day!

Tuesday 29 July, Essen (Nordrhein Westphalen/North Rhine Westfalia) I spent ages trying to decide where to stay in Essen, as I've never had to stay in a hotel there. If it was December, I'd be inclined to stay in town near the Christmas markets. But it was late July. I thought about the...

Monday part 2 My dinner Ruettenscheid high street at night Whoops, QIMR not Clive Berghofer, though I think his name is on the QIMR building?

Monday 28 July, Berlin to Essen Up first, our last breakfast buffet - here's most of it. Honestly, it was probably better than I expected for a Hampton Inn after our experience in NYC last year. Plenty of German options to keep Mr Katie and me happy, and yoghurt and eggs and bacon to keep Mumma...

Sunday 27 July, part 2 We walked back to the station; the Imbiss (snack stand) at the station was open, which was a relief to get a bottle of water as we'd drunk all of ours. ~45 mins back to Berlin on the S-Bahn. Campbell was very surprised when he talked to us about our next plans -...

Sunday 27 July First up - breakfast and breakfast dessert! I only eat nutella in Europe. ;) At all of the brekky buffets, there were little cups, seemed to be made of the same stuff as ice cream cones, for your jams and nutella. We pondered what a coeliac would do and decided they'd just...

Looks good. I didn’t give Mr Katie proper instructions and he started to compare Menu A and B. :rolleyes: Oh, I have booked us at the Doubletree for now. Flights to be sorted.

Saturday 26 July, part 2 More Pride scenes, caught a few interesting outfits: Glitter beard! I'm not sure about posting these balloons. 🙈 Also seen in Amsterdam the following Saturday!! Overall, there was a LOT of street pee-ing in the area. Many folks were peeing in bushes/against trees...

Saturday 26 July As we're staying at a Hampton Inn, breakfast is included. *cue angels singing* We head downstairs for breakfast after 9am. Mumma Katie had already been down, as she was booked on a bus tour to Potsdam and Sansoucci. I'd seen both as a know-it-all 17yo *cough* many years ago, so...

I remember it being exactly the same style of questions when we entered the EU via HEL in 2018.

Hotel: Hampton by Hilton Berlin City West 1 Queen room interconnecting with 1 twin room Roughly between Zoo station and Savignyplatz SBahn station. I chose this one due to Hilton loyalty and it was cheaper than the Hilton at Gendarmenmarkt, where we stayed 11 years ago. The Teen wished we were...