here we go!

OK, requested the leave at work and started booking flights and rooms. The plan is to leave on the 3rd, arriving on the 4th, spend through the 7th in Amsterdam seeing the city and taking little day trips to Den Haag, Haarlem, and Oosterbeek/Arnhem, then take the train (well, three trains, it looks like) up to Harlingen and spend several days there enjoying the sea air, maybe take a trip out to the islands, then train back to Schipol and home on the 11th.