11:30 – Zeker en vast I’ll tell you where Albert Heijn is, woman of the Flemish people. And I’ll go on trying to find something suitable for a present for mom.
12:15 – Unsuccessfully I return home just to think of a coffee and move on to the next stop – Utrecht, for the meeting with Fronkie.
13:15 – I get on the train to Utrecht and 2 mermaids step in. One is wearing a pink t-shirt with light pink shorts and again pink panties. It looks not yet like a pinkish blur, so she puts on a light pink wig. The other wears the same, but in blue and black to match her eyes. They ask me if I’m also going to the festival. Which festival?! I ask. This answers their question. They keep on arranging their purses – one has a big wine bottle that she needs to cover in her own clothes so you wouldn’t notice it’s a bottle. The other has a 10cm purse which can basically only hold her vodka bottle and maybe some squeezed in coins. She says – don’t you think this vodka bottle is too little?! I think - Well, then you’d need a different purse, sister!
13:35 – Happy sisters put back all bottles and make-up in their purses, I go off the train. After missing some exits, I return to the main screen in the Central station, Utrecht. I meet Fronkie.
14:00 – We’re walking around in Utrecht. We get a look at 2 churches. It’s the day when all churches are open – you can check them out. I think a perfect day for grandma to visit, too bad she’s not here. We walk further.
14:30 – We’re here: Nijntje Museum!! You can call the little genius rabbit Miffy in English. It has loads of translations in almost all languages of the world and every one recognizes the shapes of Nijntje. We used to play games from Nijntje site when working at HP – het wordt lachen!
15:00 – I get to draw my own Nijntje after running up the stairs of Nijntje’s house. Then I get down with an elevator where you need to keep the button pressed to go down. If you take your finger away, it stops! This is soo cool! I want a house with this elevator!
15:15 – We get to the Nijntje shop. Adrenaline rising – I get to buy my own Nijntje t-shirt. This is fantastic! Living in a dream!
15:20 – How come Dick Bruna is so rich and he doesn’t have a Ferrari?! What kind of person is that?! Besides, he’s still working.. absurd!
15:30 – We’re done with Nijntje museum and shopping, we can still enter the central museum. Our tickets are ok for that one as well. But why?! So we go on to a record shop. I find another good looking plate for Leon, hope he likes the music..
16:00 – Fronkie asks where do I want to sit at a terrace – I say the terrace next to the canal. You don’t have that in Amsterdam – the stairs that go down so you can sit by the water. I also saw at Madurodam – The Netherlands in miniature – a guy who was pissing in the river from the exact place where we were supposed to sit at. Fronkie said it must be one of his friends.
17:30 – We get to Fronkie’s place, we listen to some oh-key old music, I try to shake the apple tree of the neighbours. No damn fruit will fall. I sorrowful sip on the apple juice. We have a look at some old pictures. Funny to see friends in the same places you were at – like Hover Dam.
19:00 – We arrive at the oriental tapas resto. The friendly mermaid at the entrance has a rip-off on the side, you can quietly admire her bra and white skin. Good lipstick though. She takes the order and some Moroccan brings some tapas. We say thank you. After a long debate on who ordered what we discover we’ve eaten some one else’s food. Almost nothing’s ours. We say – bring us another Casablanca beer and we’ll forget about it. Fronkie then tells me his experiences with Hungarian palinca involving nakedness and stories of the bike and the bench after long nights out. We have a good laugh and decide to leave the rest voor volgende keer.
22:45 – Fronkie gives me change for the bus and I say I want to go to Centraal. The driver says it’s ok, I’m going there.
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