NationStates Jolt Archive

Now that I'm rested and not totally strung out on 6-hour jet lag (I love sleeping for 11 hours), while I'm glad to be home, I'm missing Amsterdam already. I love that city!

But at least I have a lot of pictures from there, which I will happily share with NSG once I upload them to Picassa.

Has anyone else been anywhere interesting lately?

I went to Mexico for a day.

I was in Romania :) I had a great time. I was also in Amsterdam, but just for taking the plane :p

Languedoc and the Basque Country this summer. I also wanted to see Barcelona while I was in the neighbourhood, but couldn't go.

A cruise of the Greek Isles. For a lover of history like myself, it was awesome.

back to NZ, but it wasn't that great a trip all things considered.
I wasn't planning on going back but my Dad had a stroke last month and is pretty f'ed up. I honestly don't know if I'll see him alive again, as I'm not planning on heading back there next year.
other than it was pretty good.

I loved Amsterdam too! I enjoyed the freedom of the city and the ability to do almost anything. I myself am rather liberal and am up for anything, so to find a city that suits me is fantastic.
I am not ashamed to say that I like girls as well as Boy (yes I'm a girl) and that place is fab. Anything you want haha, anybody considering it, you have to go

I was in Romania :) I had a great time. I was also in Amsterdam, but just for taking the plane :p

Ah yes... must've been nice to transfer at a hub where you don't need to go through several levels of paranoid security checks just to transfer flights...

It sucks having a common last night. -.-;

As an American, I refuse to believe that any of my fellow Americans travel outside of our holy borders.

I was in Philly (yes, Ruffy, I was) at the beginning of the summer (also in May for 5 hours) and I went to Canada (Montreal and Quebec) last month.

As an American, I refuse to believe that any of my fellow Americans travel outside of our holy borders.

I have to ask. Why is your location Leicester of all places? Its not a very interesting place.

I have to ask. Why is your location Leicester of all places? Its not a very interesting place.

Where do you suggest I move to?

Ah yes... must've been nice to transfer at a hub where you don't need to go through several levels of paranoid security checks just to transfer flights...

It sucks having a common last night. -.-;

Yes, hurray for Schengen :) Although things are worse nowadays, no more water bottles in the hand luggage. Only liquids up to 100ml and packaged in strange ways :( Stupid rules...

Although I forgot to take my bottle out of my hand luggage and they didn't say anything...

Strange :)

As an American, I refuse to believe that any of my fellow Americans travel outside of our holy borders.

So you agree that the so-called "moonlandings" were all filmed in Kansas ?

So is it really illegal for cops to search you there?

So you agree that the so-called "moonlandings" were all filmed in Kansas ?

Absolutely.

So is it really illegal for cops to search you there?

No, but they need a good reason.

As an American, I refuse to believe that any of my fellow Americans travel outside of our holy borders.

You didn't hear? We own the world. Any travel is in America.

So is it really illegal for cops to search you there?

Uhh no, I was searched and "detained" for about 3 hours in Amsterdam when I was young. Was a simple misunderstanding however and I was let go. Well, maybe not simple but it was a misunderstanding. ;)

Yes, hurray for Schengen :) Although things are worse nowadays, no more water bottles in the hand luggage. Only liquids up to 100ml and packaged in strange ways :( Stupid rules...

Although I forgot to take my bottle out of my hand luggage and they didn't say anything...

Strange :)

They didn't seem to mind the bong. Then again, they didn't look through our bags. I guess being white makes us very uninteresting, even if my maiden surname is irritatingly common. :)

Border security looked like it preferred to look for more "suspicious" people than a couple of white bread Canucks bringing back a bong from Amsterdam. ;)

Of course, the cheese we were carrying was probably more of a national security issue than our "tobacco water pipe". ;)

D'oh! You're Canuckian! *slaps forehead*

They didn't seem to mind the bong. Then again, they didn't look through our bags. I guess being white makes us very uninteresting, even if my maiden surname is irritatingly common. :)

Border security looked like it preferred to look for more "suspicious" people than a couple of white bread Canucks bringing back a bong from Amsterdam. ;)

Of course, the cheese we were carrying was probably more of a national security issue than our "tobacco water pipe". ;)

Well, if it's only the bong, then why make a problem out of it? Besides I guess they just think it's a souvenir for some silly tourists :)

Now, the cheese however... That's smuggling :p

Well, if it's only the bong, then why make a problem out of it? Besides I guess they just think it's a souvenir for some silly tourists :)

Now, the cheese however... That's smuggling :p

Delicious Dutch cheese! :) We have goat cheese. It's really good!

;) and not to mention that sinfully good Belgian chocolate.

So you agree that the so-called "moonlandings" were all filmed in Kansas ?
God, that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. It was in New Mexico. How would you fake the lunar landscape in Kansas?

Where do you suggest I move to?

I suggest Chernobyl *nod*

Delicious Dutch cheese! :) We have goat cheese. It's really good!

;) and not to mention that sinfully good Belgian chocolate.

Yes, luckily for me I'm living very close to Belgium :D Only half an hour... by bike :D It makes for great gifts to girls ;)

And cheese... Hmmm... Let me just say I'm happy that I live in a country of cheese ;)

God, that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. It was in New Mexico. How would you fake the lunar landscape in Kansas?

Fire your gun at the ground a few times. Don't you know that everything is bigger in Texas ?

You didn't hear? We own the world. Any travel is in America.

yes, but America is the UK. They just don't know it, the bunch of traitorous colonists.

Fire your gun at the ground a few times. Don't you know that everything is bigger in Texas ?
It's more than just craters, who would believe that the moon was covered with grass, tornadoes and hillbillies? First of all, most of those things require air to continue successfully not failing to exist.

It's more than just craters, who would believe that the moon was covered with grass, tornadoes and hillbillies? First of all, most of those things require air to continue successfully not failing to exist.

Obviously they are alien lifeforms surviving on air-in-a-can. And of course they look just like their American counterparts - everyone wants to be like the USA after all !

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