long time no chat to @article61 how you been? from the looks of things it looks like it is going great for you.
Amsterdam is amazing from what I remember I was 11 the last time I went and with my parents so couldn't take advantage of the coffee shops :D

While we were visiting Ibiza with my folks we met a couple and their young lad who where from holand. my Mum and Dad got on really well with them and before you know it they seemed to be best friends, even when we got home.
For years we would go to and from holand and they would come and stay with us too.
I was amazed by the size of the breakfast isles in the supermarkets, it was endless and the amount of toppings you can find to go on toast was out of this world.
They even took us to Efteling Themepark, back then they had the largest collection of barbie dolls in the world, I don't know about now as this was years ago.
Things where great, we met amazing people, one guy was a race car driver and drove for marlboro fags. we had a go in his race car and my mum had a panic attack with how fast he was driving and hitting the corners at.

Then things took a strange turn, the guy who we all loved decided to ask my mum to leave my dad and live over there with him.
as you can probably guess, things didn't go down to well with my dad and the whole relationship with them went down the pan.
About 6 months later my mum and dad sat us down and explained what had happened and we should watch out for them just in case.

Later on in life, I asked questions about what had happened and they had phoned and told my dad they were coming to take me and my brother across to holand to live with them so my mum would follow.
I can't make this stuff up, the more I write the more I remember about it and it sounds crazy now.

But again, Holland is an amazing place, and I would love to go back and visit, maybe one day in the future with my wife and kids.