Not even 48 hours after arriving back home from Moscow, I left for another conference in Amsterdam, the 8th Conference of the International Test Commission. I arrived in the city in the late morning, which gave me just enough time to get into town from Schiphol Airport and check into my hotel. From there, it was not even a ten minute walk to the conference venue, the wonderful “Koninklijk Instituut van de Tropen”, the Royal Tropical Institute, a beautifully decorated building. The pre-conference workshop I attended in the afternoon was pretty nerdy stuff, so I won’t bother you with the details. After the workshop, I walked to the Niewmarkt, a nice square with lots of cafés, bars and restaurants, to have dinner. After dinner, I simply sat on the square for a while, amazed by how
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