Starting next week I will be re-acclimating myself to the life of official commuter, traveling to and from Amsterdam on a daily basis.

Total travel time will be minimally: 2 x (10 minutes by bike + 42 minutes by train + 3 minutes by metro + 4 minutes by foot) = 118 minutes, not counting waiting and possible delays.

One of the advantages of sitting so long in the train as compared to sitting in the car in one of the daily traffic jams is that I can finally catch up on the huge backlog of books I have collected in the last couple of years.

We'll just have to wait and see how things turn out.