Deak's Travel Blog: Lots of flowers, also sick :(

This post is coming a little late, probably a double post for the day because I (Alex) have a cold or something. No caughing at all which is where my brain goes to first now due to covid, just sinus gunk amd being really tired. Id noticed my throat getting sore and gunky but was hoping it was just due to the wall shaking snoring Ive been doing since we got here (sorry Sarah). Instead i think ive been snoring because i was coming on witb something.

So now its 2:50am and I've been sleeping since around 5 yesterday I think. Ill try and sleep more but Sarah I think was just able to get to sleep an hour ago from dealing with me.

Still had a very nice day yesterday, but limited our evening and probably today on what we'll do. Yesterday we grabbed coffee again from Yusu and this time got 3 munchies to go since were going to Keukenhoff gardens south of here. We actually had to rush a bit since one of the metro lines turned out to be very delayed and we had to reroute. We were afraid the bus we had booked would take off without us. It probably wouldnt have mattered they have buses constantly going but we did make it with 2 minutes to spare.

The bus got us there in about 20 minutes. Its a pretty good mix of all tourist types. Lots of elderly folks of all nationalities, instagram ladies on the bus with widebrim hats talking about awesome things they did or Chinese teens who wore nice dresses to get the perfect pose in front of flowers.

All in all it was very popular but its so big it didnt feel too bad crowd wise. You could easily stop and admire any flowers you wanted without any bother.

This time of year most flowers were in bloom with various straglers. We covered probably half of the garden and had lunch. By that point I was understanding that I was in fact sick as my energy was just drained. We ate at a vegan cafe there that had a really bad ordering system, touchscreen that was both not very responsive but also seemingly not accurate when we clicked what we wanted, adding 2 items to ouelr order we had to cancel. No menu ahead of time so there were folks that took 15 minutes to order ahead of us. Food was pretty good though (for not having animal product). Sarah had a noodle amd tomato sauce dish, I had green curry rice and vegetables.

After looking a bit more, flowers do start to repeat themselves amd we decided to skipthe indoor areas. They have various flower shows that change weekly but I could see that being very unpleasant with the crowds vs the outdoors.

Way back was fine. I slept a bit. When we got back went to an Albert Hjein grocery store. Got some cold medicine that might be kind of like Alkaselzer, not sure but mixes with warm water. Havent used it yet been doing Benedryl. Also picked up a container of OJ im most of the way through. Sarahs been doing a wonderful job taking care of me. Ordered another room service meal. We put Snooker world championship on TV (BBC 2) and that knocked me out pretty fast.

Sorry for the less interesting update :(

Niek if youre reading might have to cancel me going to game night depending on how I am in when I get there.