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Ian.R.Sandy

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Posts Tagged ‘New Year’

New Years Day – Rotterdam

Posted by Ian R. Sandy on January 1, 2006

Well, we survived the fireworks ! It is about 02:20 in the morning and I can still hear the sound of fireworks going off in the distance. Time to call it a day I think. We managed to blow off a couple of hundred EUROS in the space of about 50 minutes – it was great fun and a New Year’s to be remembered.

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