Thursday night, I stayed up fairly late, and then after midnight, my uitkering payment was in my bank, and so I ended up staying up, excited that I was about to finally leave Amsterdam at last, after 4 months.

So, after my all-nighter, I went down to the DWI to check my post. If I don't check my post every 6 weeks at least they stop paying me. Well, I don't really mind so much, but one more payment would probably make everything work just that little bit better.

On the way back I was walking down Jan van Galenstraat, past Erasmuspark, where the plums are blooming (or maybe they are cherries?):

I was nervous about how much I was going to have to pay to get a train to Schiphol Airport, and I needn't have... Here is my ticket with the road out the back of Amsterdam Centraal Station in the background:

To be honest, I haven't really been much in the mood for taking photographs, and if you think these pictures are not such great quality even scaled down a bit on the screen here, that's because the camera is terrible on the Pixi 4 (5) I bought. I'm not really much of a picture person anyway and especially in places like an airport I'm paranoid about someone thinking I'm a terrist scoping the place out (like they do that...)

So here is the silly i amsterdam thing that the Amsterdam city council uses to market Amsterdam (like Amsterdam really needs marketing anyway!). Technically, Schiphol is actually part of the Hoofdoorp municipality, the next city over to the west:

My first view of Istanbul airport. Istanbul airport is the most crappy airport I have ever been to. Beijing was probably the nicest I ever saw. All the airports in Europe seem like they could be built and run by the same people, the same shops... and Istanbul had all the same junk as well.

I snapped a photo of the opposite side of the Belgrade Central Railway Station when I passed through last time. Here is the front.

I took a taxi from Belgrade Nikola Tesla Aerodrome, pictured below is where our plane parked. In Istanbul, also, the plane parked out in the middle of a big area with lots of parked planes and we were shuttled to and fro in this weird very wide bus. Like a normal airport, at Nikola Tesla, there was the big covered in catwalk that comes in and docks with the plane.

On my old passport, I had stamps from two chinese airports, but nobody on border checkpoints in Europe normally stamps my passport with anything. All three of these here are from Serbia.

The first, oldest stamp was from when I took a bus to go rescue not very much money from my ING bank account. I'm not sure if the one from february last year was going to Amsterdam or coming back, but for some reason only one time they stamped it.

I hitch-hiked out of Sofia on my way to SteemFest, getting a lift from just outside the Sofia city limits, which there says it was the 15th of October when I did that. Then there is the third one below, which has a plane instead of a car icon on it.

The taxi driver who took me to Belgrade Central tried to tell me the train to Novi Sad was going to be in the range of 20-25 euros. This here was the ticket I bought, I was pretty sure I remembered the price was around 4 euros. 388 RSD, sure enough!

This is the train station of Petrovaradin, the town across the Danube from Novi Sad. I wrote a piece about the Petrovaradinska Tvrdava, the old fortress... Sometime soon I should get a good bright torch and make a photo set of the underground tunnels there.

I vaguely noticed this little memorial before but I decided to take a photograph. It is of some early railroad pioneer of Serbia, I think. The statue is very nicely constructed, and that's a proper old steem train. I mean steam train. :)

For those who can read Serbian, this is the plaque bolted to the side of the train that you can see vaguely in the first picture.

So, I'm settled in now, at a hostel called Rookies. I am going out shortly to meet up with @deearchi and we are going to hang out and catch up a bit this evening. I'm not gonna do any too much staying up late though, I still haven't slept and my eyeballs are all nasty.

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