May 16, 2012
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(written on 21 January)
TGIW I wrote on Facebook. Thank God It’s Wednesday, as a slight variation on the TGIF expression. Tomorrow is Ascension Day in the Netherlands, and while we may be a country with just about the lowest number of public holidays in Europe, this is still one we get. Originally it had been my intention to take Friday off, which would have meant a four day weekend coming up (followed by a three day weekend next week) but there’s just a bit too much work to deal with. So I will come in on Friday in an attempt to clear that away. A four day weekend would have been a very welcome thing given how many things I still want to do before Colin and Andy will be here on the 30th, but I’ll just have to cope with one day less.
Today however, was just a normal work day, except possibly for the people in the cars shown in the picture. Because of the location of our office, on the 26th floor of an office building just next to the ring motorway, we do get to see many things traffic related. Such as bad traffic jams during rush hour, especially when it’s raining. Or accidents. The one shown in the picture above probably wasn’t as bad as you’d think from the picture, but still, it was a collision in which some cars ended their careers in a big bang. In no time the emergency services had arrived and the cars and people involved in the crash had been removed from the scene. Amsterdam’s ring motorway is of vital importance to the city, definitely in this business part of town, so any incidents are dealt with rather swiftly here. And then the weekend could start.
