Time to pack my stuff again as I was flying to Valencia. Rene brought me to the airport and off I went. Valencia airport is tiny, similar to Aruba, and in the arrival hall I headed to the tourist-info. As there was some kind of fair going on in town, I had not been able [...]
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move to Valencia – Sept 16
I went to Amsterdam again to have lunch with my brother, good seeing him! In the afternoon I met with Lynn, Lotte and Michael. Last year October they came with the dance-troupe ISH to Beijing and I took them to the Great Wall and we spent some evenings together. Was nice to catch up with [...]
move to Valencia – Sept 15
Time for a break from all the running around. I spent the day with Inge, walking around town a bit, having a coffee on a terrace, playing some backgammon and we cooked a nice meal together. Nice to spend some quality time with my best friend and it’s great that we live a lot closer [...]
move to Valencia – Sept 13
With the train I went to Rotterdam to attend the wedding of Lianne and Geert-Jan. Ten years ago Lianne wheelbarrowed me into the job as tour-leader so basically she is the one to “blame” for my prolonged stay in China The ceremony was in the park of the Euromast, Het Heerenhuys, which used to be [...]
move to Valencia – Sept 12
Inge asked me to come to the hospital to spend some time and play a bit of backgammon. Unfortunately that morning the morphine drip had just been taken out and the last bit of it was just wearing off. So instead we just talked a bit and I left early. In the evening Rene and [...]
move to Valencia – Sept 11
Nice to have a good ol’ Dutch breakfast again. Real brown bread with old cheese and all kinds of meats, yummie! Bought a new phone (Nokia 6300) and a Dutch number so finally I was mobile again. I booked my flight to Valencia, walked the dog and cooked Rene’s favourite dish from China: coca-cola chicken.
move to Valencia – Sept 10
From Mark and Pam I already had heard that their party on the 20th was not taking place, so I decided to stay shorter than planned in The Netherlands. I called Rene how Inge was doing as the day before she had undergone surgery for her 4th collapsed lung. Rene assured me that I was [...]
move to Valencia – Sept 9
Saying goodbye to Mia was not easy, a moment we dreaded for the last couple of weeks. Mei you ban fa. In the plane I sat next to Jerry Vroon of ATP, what a coincidence, before the Olympics we were in touch about a possible cooperation for homestays for the families of Dutch athletes. For [...]
2 days and a bit left
Only 2 days and a bit are left now before I leave China after my 10 year stay here. On Friday the movers came to pack our stuff. They were 45 minutes early and out within 2 hours. In the afternoon we had lunch at Mosto, the brand new restaurant in the new Nali Mall [...]
