Duesseldorf and Amsterdam. Beer anynone?

[jriera]

I will be in Dusseldorf from Monday 9/14 to Friday 9/18 and in Amsterdam from Friday 9/18 until Tuesday 9/22 (and maybe London on Wednesday 9/16).

Beers anyone?

[Rick Lee]

I'm so jealous. Be sure to have a few Schloesser Alts in Duesseldorf. Oh yeah, you don't drink. You're going to the wrong cities.

[fingpilot]

I last week turned down a flight that spent the last three days in Amsterdam. It leaves today back to LaLaLand. We would have missed anyway, but amazing how small a world this is!

[targa911S]

Why, why would you drink beer in Amsterdam?

[Joeaksa]

Am in London now, let me know if you get this direction!

Joe A

[Dutchie]

Wich hotel are you staying ? if it's not in the center i,ll join you for a beer. Love the center of Amsterdam but parking is a nightmare ....

[jriera]

Joe, seems that I will not be able to make it to London on Wednesday. I will let you know if anything changes.

Dutchie, I will be staying at the Van Der Valt on A4 near Schiphol, I will be arriving after 19 hours on Friday (driving from Duesseldorf). I did ask for the Krasnapolsky but the budget did not allow for that :-)
In theory Saturday and Sunday I am more or less free.

[fingpilot]

I have a funny story about a trip to Dusseldorf, and driving to AMS, putting a rental car in a lot in the city, and then going eating/drinking with a crew.

If you know AMS, none of the streets are exactly straight. Yep, could not find the car lot after several last calls. Took a taxi back to Dusseldorf, and told the car rental guy the car 'disappeared' from the hotel parking lot.

Fast forward several months, same run, same layover, same rental lot, and after shower and shave, back to AMS. This time with a portable GPS (they were new at the time). Found a parking lot, dropped the car, took the GPS, got it to lock, marked the spot as a waypoint, turned it off, and pocketed it, and off we went.

You already know what happened. Now the sun is up, we are all ready to run back to Germany and sleep. I pull the GPS from my pocket, and light it off. If you know AMS, the streets in a certain part of town are all 3 or 4 stories tall, and very narrow. Could not get enough 'sky' to get a GPS lock. Would stumble to an intersection, where it was a little more 'open' and get a 2D lock, enuf to get a rho/theta Bearing and Distance as the crow flies. 2.1 miles thataway. Of course, the streets didn't exactly go thataway. Walk that general direction zigging and zagging thataway 20 blocks or so, and find some 'sky', repeat the process. Mind you, this is a large airliner cockpit crew, all true professionals.... 1.4 miles thataway... did this 4 times.

Taxicab back to Dusseldorf. Same story to the rental car guy at the airport. He pulls me aside and says, they found the last car in AMS, and charged my credit card $500USD for parking fees and to retrieve it... ( I never saw the charges). He asked point blank, was this the same deal????? Of course, I copped, and gave him the claim check. All it had on it was a claim number, no other data.

Needless to say, I am blacklisted from renting cars from Avis in Dusseldorf, probably still.

[Dutchie]

So fingpilot is the guy on the posters at every Avis agent ! your famous

Jordi van der Valk has parking no problems lets have some beers and talk Porsche.


Cheers,

Ed

[jriera]

Ed, I will send you a PM with my cell number later in the week.

fing, I need to come down to Jean one day and we can swap car rental stories ... I have my share too ....

[Joeaksa]

Jordi,

We just got the alert call and are flying on Monday/Tuesday.

Will let you know if we get in your area.

Joe A

[MFAFF]

Joe
if you're in London on Wednesday drop me a line....

[Joeaksa]

Will do. Right now we are flying out on Monday and not sure of the schedule after that.

Will try to stay in touch...

Joe A

[jorian]

Oranjeboom at the Hotel Ambassade, Amsterdam during the World Cup - great memories.