Amsterdam was everything it was supposed to be and more, though I'm not sure if that's a compliment. I arrived in the early evening after a day long train ride from Chamonix through Paris. The mood in the air was upbeat, the canals were beautiful …
It was a long wait at Melbourne airport before we actually hit the skies. We sat on the tarmac for two and a half hours due to a valve malfunction. We taxied away from the terminal before pulling back in. So after the engineers replaced the …