Tiptoe amongst...

We woke up to sun streaming into the apartment and knew it was a flower day. Everyone else did, too, and we found ourselves packed into the bus that took us to the Keukenhof Gardens. In retrospect, it would have been better to hire a couple of bicycles and tour the bulb fields on our own steam, but we stuck to our plans and funnelled in with the crowd to the Keukenhof. The multitude of bulbs and colours, plus the smells (so Mum tells me - most infuriatingly, my sense of smell had completely gone due to a cold), were glorious.

Back in Amsterdam, we enjoyed mint tea and a walk through the Vondelpark to the apartment. It was perishingly cold so we stayed cosy indoors and watched Dutch TV and BBC 1. A home from home.