Day 1: Arriving into Amsterdam

From Hong Kong to Amsterdam via Doha (flying Qatar)...

We arrive 1pm. Thank goodness for K and T travelling on EU passports, we get to skip a huge queue at immigration. There is one immigration official attending to EU citizens and one attending to all international arrivals. It is the day before UK votes on Brexit, so at least for now my wife and daughter carry "EU" passports...!

We collect our bags easily and find our way to the train - 1 stop to Lelylaan. T contrasts differences she notices between Hong Kong MTR and the Dutch rail system:

"There is no colour..." referring to the station surrounds

"The trains are double deck"

We walk 20 minutes from Lelylaan station to Rembrandt Park, where we are staying. Dropping off our bags, we wander the park and surrounds, finding a small playground with an attached lot of farm animals.

 T plays for a while.

We also find a square with supermarket and restaurants, and T and I being hungry, grab a large sweet pretzel-shaped pastry and a ham-cheese pizza bread. We then stock up food for dinner and breakfast and return quickly to cook up pasta.
"This is the best day ever!" little miss decides as she looks at her bowl of fresh fettuccine with salmon, cheese and sauce... then gets fidgety and we go back down to the playground where she climbs like a monkey... before we are all in bed and asleep before 9pm, with the daylight feeling more like it is lunchtime than bedtime.
Weekday 5:35am alarm set to "off".
Holidays have started.
Amsterdam, we have arrived!