Farewell week...

My last weeks in Amsterdam have started and saying goodbye to friends is now a daily exercise...

My family organised a weekend of being together in Domburg (small village along the Dutch southwest coast) and enjoying the feeling of having your close family around you, something that I'm definitely going to miss.

We had a wonderful Italian diner on Saturday in our family home, prepared by the cooks among us (NOT ME...). Bowling with live comments of the brothers and playing a board game lead to the natural competition that will pop up between us, my brothers and me, when there's someting to win, an exciting game!

Sunday was great for walking along the beach and some more relaxing moments.

A super exciting of the last Formula One race of the year did the rest, Lewis Hamilton got the champoinship, think he deserved it!

Monday I had a Mexican farewell as the sister of Rosario would be leaving to Mexico in a few days and we realised that I would not see her for a long time, so we went off to Los Pilones, one of the best Mexican restaurants in town, at least the Mexicans say that..!

Saying goodbye to my close friends that I know since I was studying in Utrecht (a relatively big city in the Netherlands) was on Tuesday, we had a fantastic diner in restaurant Eau de Vie and on top of that I received a pair of very Dutch cufflings to remind me of my roots and our friendship. I'm going to miss our monthly drinks!!

On Wednesday I drank some beers in Gambrinus, a local bar, with a mix of friends and colleagues who joined from different places...

Saying farewell to my ING colleagues in Amsterdam was last Thursday. They organised drinks and many of the colleagues I work with or have been working with were there. The colleagues in my department made pictures of themselves against a hilarious background of me among other things, all put together in a digital photo frame, thanks guys!!

The recruitment colleagues brought some typical great Dutch stuff like a CD called 'Ik hou van Hollands' with songs of Fransje Bauer and Wolter Kroes. Will miss you all and we keep in touch!