Superheroes in Amsterdam

It has been very quiet on our blog. It's a sign either we are too busy or we got nothing to share. The kids themselves are also busy especially Fiz who is doing her GCSE in May this year. She has been doing her revision for a month or two now. Yesterday we got her mock results and it's a good yardstick to measure up what she needs to do.

Anyway yesterday we decided to go to Amsterdam more or less at the spur of the moment. We thought the weather was nice and also we wanted to go to Beverwijk later.

Whilst in Amsterdam Fiz and Zim went to wander around on their own. Fiz wanted to take photos for her art project, while the rest of us went to Kalverstraat, stopped over at Waterstone and yours truly bought a hard disk. Nowadays one could buy one Terabytes hard disk for less than a hundred Euros. But it is bulky and need its own power source to drive it. So I opted for a 320GB for the same price but much smaller and only use USB for power. Nowadays with the advent of easy photos with digital cameras, we all tend to accumulate tons and tons of photos. But they might all be gone if we don't do a back-up from our PC. I learnt that a certain PC's nemesis aka virus are capable of wiping out your files.

The Dam Square as usual was busy. There were so many superheroes! But you need to pay if you want take a photo with them. Nothing come for free. In time of recession like this even superheroes need money to survive!

Later we went to Beverwik. On the way back from Beverwijk, we saw the crashed Turkish airline jet was still lying in the field close to the motorway. It was a surreal sight, the motorway was just a hundred metres away while the runway was just across it. The A9 is a very busy motorway, it could have been worst if the plane had hit the motorway.