Monday, March 30, 2009

Setting foot on European soil!

It was a very long day... Leaving our office at about 1:30AM, the flight leaving Imam Khomeini Airport at around 4:30AM took us to Schipol Airport of Amsterdam, The Netherlands before 11AM.

Taking...

the Turkish Airline flight!

We stopped by Istanbul, Turkey... only for a short while...

Atatürk Airport...


oh they have Burger King! I'm too full to have a Whopper...


saying good-bye to Turkey!
I completely forgot we were going to take the flight that just had an accident... Istanbul-Amsterdam flight had a "overrun" accident when I was at Bushehr last month! I'm sure they won't make the same mistake!

After reaching Schipol, we rushed to The Hague, our destination...


Amsterdam Airport... lots of KLMs!


the words of Schipol...


to Den Haag please!


lots of "historical" buildings!
the smell of Europe!!

We spent some time at the venue of the conference taking place tomorrow...


the venue...


upshot...


a nice conference hall!


let's see what the two countries in the center will do...

Sadly we found out that it was not the foreign minister than was attending from Iran... This made our trip so downgraded it was like coming to a nice vacation to an European town. Well, there's no choice but to enjoy our stay here and hope for something miraculous to happen tomorrow!

PS
It was the first time in years, perhaps since when I was a first grader, to set foot on European ground (except Charles De Gaulle Airport a while ago!). I didn't realize how exciting that would be as I was all fed up with the crazy trip through the night...

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