We attended the ‘kick-off’ meeting of GOSTEP at the Amsterdam headquarters of Izi-Travel (seen here). All went very well with lots of positive discussion from our Russian, Dutch and Italian partners, however, only the Dutch knew what was going to happen next. This massive party was not in celebration of our new project, instead it seems that our meeting had coincided with Kings Day. The centre of Amsterdam had moved to pedestrian mode and we saw how the Dutch can roll out the orange!