‘Twas a great couple of days: Utrecht was lovely in the spring, bicycles everywhere; Amsterdam perhaps a bit too sleazy and tawdry for my taste (compared to Utrecht, anyway), and mostly forgettable apart from some seriously dangerous bookshops. A country where the public transport was not only easy and everywhere and cheap (compared to Britain) but was uncrowded and fast and actually worked (again unlike Britain… ). Nice.

I’ll have to go there again sometime – preferably when I do actually have the time and the mindspace to play tourist for once!

Thanks again, folks – all much appreciated. See you again soon, I hope.