I forgot to turn my phone off last night and unfortunately, the NZ Blood Service decided to ring at 4.30am our time. I have to admit that my one word replies were a little less than polite! Oops - I'll try to restore the relationship when I'm back in NZ time :) A little later on, we went to visit Edinburgh castle. The queues were fairly long to get tickets, but they moved quickly and a chat with a friendly American helped pass the time. We entered the castle i...

Today was a rather early wake up of 5.30am - a horrible shock to the system. Uncle Albert drove us to Hoogeveen where we caught the train to Amsterdam airport. Unfortunately the train didn't have any luggage storage area so poor Brett had to lift our 20kg suitcases up above his head into the baggage shelf. Somehow I suspect they aren't really designed for suitcases as heavy as ours. Upon arriving at Amsterdam airport we stood in the Easy Jet queue for an ete...