Thanks all for the kind words, starting to feel happy in my lot again. It's nice to get out of egypt finally as they drive you up the wall..... from a work point of view anyway. And to be honest from a social point as well but I'm not going to get into that.
Steve, can't really pop home at the weekends due to doing 7 days a aweek for 6 weeks but i do get 6 whole weeks off at home so that makes up for it!!! Only problem so far is the wife isn't overly happy with me sitting amsterdam all this time what with one of europes largest red light areas just a short ferry ride across the river away!!!