Idle musings

    On work, I visited the Netherlands (or Holland) for a week in the beginning of September 2023. It was exciting to meet colleagues whom I had only met on video calls. I had a couple of days during the weekend when I visited Amsterdam and the city of Maastricht. The rest of this blog post describes some of my experience and memories from those days. NOTE: As always, I have avoided mentioning names of hotels and people.     An observation about me from my wife is: "You are the only person capable of getting lost near home!" On a Sunday morning in the city of Eindhoven, I proved her observation to be correct! This time, I will blame technology to some extent: on my smartphone, I typed in the station that I was supposed to go to. However, the app took the first location by default, an area near the station but NOT the station itself. I happily followed its directions thinking how smart I am! It took me a few minutes to realise that I was not near the train station!     As I fo