Final Day in Amsterdam...

The next morning, Slippery’s family scattered off for various hockey games and we headed to De Pijp to go to our favorite omelet restaurant and then to see some art in the Stedelijk, Amsterdam’s modern art museum. 

Afterwards, we grabbed our stuff and headed to Rotterdam to catch the Eurostar back to London. Luckily this time when we were pulled into secondary at passport control, we were better prepared. I had returned our visas a few days earlier and had documentation from the national immigration office of the return. Strangely the very kind officer said that in Dutch the document said our visas had been revoked and it English that they had been returned. She promised to get the matter sorted when she released us to catch our train. Jimmy would have already travelled to Brussels, which would have tested the system, but the UK government held onto our passports for nearly two months while awaiting our residence stamps. The same day that this will be posted, we will arrive back to Holland for the first time since. It’ll be interesting to see if they just welcome us or kick us out.