When Lydia and I finally arrived in Amsterdam, we took public transportation to our Airbnb. Aha! The first mishap! It seems that our stop has been eliminated until November which I only learned after traveling past our prospective stop. So, we traveled beyond our stop and hailed a taxi. The taxicab driver was a savior: he got us to our apartment and.... AND then helped us call our host to let her know we had arrived and let us in. What a nice guy! And he thinks that America has a problem with Trump. My kinda guy. He also said people here are happy.... all the time! Our host quickly showed us our room (on the fourth floor) which was an older part of Amsterdam. Whew! I needed that 1/3 part of my lung for this
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