Every now and then some of the folks of the team where I work in go somewhere to have some beers together, often combined with a good dinner. It is good to share time with your direct colleagues outside the company and have some fun. And of course other colleagues are welcome to come along if they like to.
In the past we often went to the Irish bar Mulligans, which was always fun. But it is good to visit other places as well. So this time we went to , a beer cafe in Amsterdam.
“De Zotte” is a nice place to be. Their collection of beers is very nice and I enjoyed some of the triple ones. And I saw the others have some very interesting beers. So there were enough beers for future reference.
One of the very nice things I like about this kind of evenings is that the conversations end up on very surprising subjects.
I cannot speak for the others, but I really enjoyed the steak I had at “De Zotte”. It was good and just as a medium steak should be. Same could be said about the Irish Coffee I had afterwards.
I love to drink some beer, even stronger beers, but luckily I know when to stop. As said, I love to drink some beers or a good whisky, but it not worth to me to feel bad next day or have a hang over. So I stopped with the alcohol and switched over to cola.
Like I said before, “De Zotte” is a very nice place. But it was so busy there yesterday, that at a certain moment all the noise of the talking people and the music made it hard for me to follow the on going conversations. Seemed I was not the only one. So the last of us (Menno, Gerben, Tom and I) moved to a more quiet bar at “Het Leidseplein”. There it was much better to have some talk and discussions.
Anyway, Tom and I left close to midnight to catch the last train in the direction of Heemskerk and managed to prevent that we had to walk from Uitgeest to Heemskerk (what happened some time earlier). But it was a nice evening spent with colleagues.
Once home, I found that Marion was already asleep. And right she was, no reason to stay up as it was very unclear at what time I would arrive home. To my surprise Sanne was already there as well. I expected her to arrive today, but a good friend as Sanne is always welcome at my place. Both of them were already deeply asleep, so very quietly I also went to sleep.
On a side note, yesterday it was women’s day… but today is my women’s day. Tonight I will have 4 women here staying at my place for the night (Tanja, Marissa, Sanne and Marion)… Oh what? That isn’t the meaning of women’s day??? Oh darn… 🙂
Anyway, the 4 ladies are going today to Amsterdam to shop and I stay very wisely away from that, but I wished the weather would be better. It is raining and that is not very nice for shopping I think. But I am sure the four of them will have a good time in Amsterdam.
And for tonight I will take care that there is something nice to drink and some good snacks around. It will be a nice evening. I am sure of that.
Once again I enjoyed reading your blog, thaks for that.
Also looking forward to the next dinner/drink event 🙂