At the airport, sitting at Gate D82 (miles from anywhere) waiting for my plane to Athens.

Its been a great holiday. A nice balance between doing nothing and doing something.

The last couple of days were spent catching up with family, visiting a wellness centre* and going out for dinner or lunch. There was meant to be a visit to a museum in Den Haag, but of course its Monday and none of us remembered that museums are closed on Monday.

Ok, so this one isn’t totally closed, it opens at 1pm today but I had to be at the airport at 1.30pm. Hmph.

Next time. Gotta leave things to do on another visit. Which will be in springtime so I can see the tulips. And do more stuff outdoors.

This trip was full of rain, clouds (ironically the sunlight is so bright here right now in the gate lounge that I can barely see my computer screen…) and miserable weather in general. It wasn’t too cold however… until we came to Den Haag where it seems its cold, colder and coldest. Its already in the minus most nights but during the week they are expecting double digit minuses… This morning, when we went on our aborted trip to the museum, its was -1 degrees C and there was snow on the wind.

I’m going back to Athens just in time for a cold change and snow on the mountains. Nice. All this time its been warm on Paros and brave souls have been swimming. I mean 19 and 20 degrees… sheesh. I’d be tempted to swim too!!!

*So about the wellness centre… we went there to have a sauna and we had a ton to choose from. In fact, we tried every type of sauna known to man. Turns out the best ones are the common ones – the dry heat and the steam. But there was a lovely heated outdoor pools we had a pleasant swim in, and an icy cold indoor plunge pool we also tried. It was great! I can’t bring myself to turn a hot shower to cold but I can dip in a freezing pool. Go figure.

Lets see what Athens will be like in the cold.

z