So here we are again. Boarding our flight from Basel Euroairport to Amsterdam. It doesn’t seem like it has been one whole year since we came back from the last Amsterdam Dance Event. But October is back and so are we. SWISS Air Lines takes us to Schiphol Airport in a bit more than a Coke, a small sandwich (which is actually just a bread and some dressing.. but HEY, at least they have one for us for free. EasyJet does not even serve, when you want to PAY). After the long taxiing to the gate and the neverending walk to the luggage belts our bags arrived safely. We decided then to take the train to Amsterdam Centraal instead of taking the Taxi directly to the hotel. This was very easy, but getting a ticket for the Tram to the Hotel was much more complicated. Well, not as much as we expected. We learned that you can buy tickets from the driver… Well next time we know.

Check In at Hotel Le Coin was very easy and friendly as usual (We told the lady we feel like coming home every year we see here at the front desk. She does the same LOL). After changing a bit we decided to go to Felix Meritis to check in for the ADE. Outside already first meetings on fresh air…. Think we saw Richard Earnshaw and Baggi Begovic there. Also at ADE, very quick and nice staff. The Bag looks good and all important material is in it as it seems (don’t forget the Bible… with all important addresses ;). We ran into Lewis Ferrer and had a small talk at how sad it is that the Reelgroove Event at Mansion was cancelled due to bancrupcy of the Club.

As we were very hungry we went outside in direction to our favourite Amsterdam quick lunch restaurant LUST. On the way bumped into DJ Paulette and Defected Boss Simon Dunmore for a short talk. Nice nice, can’t wait for the Strictly Event (and of course meeting all the DJs at the exclusive Press Event before).

LUST-lunch was great. Clubsandwich tasted as we had it in mind… Maybe next time we go for the Bagels? Shall we make the meetings next time here?

Before heading back to Hotel we stopped at the Machouse. Unortunately they didn’t have the magic mouse yet. We decided to give it another try on Friday. So back to hotel for some rest. Looking into the bags there’s always a lot of material which is of NO use. Escpecially this year there are some old magazines from the summer? What are we supposed to do with them? Well at least there are some goodies like a Martin Solveig Mix CD, etc.

After Dinner we headed straight to Melkweg, as there was a showcase Simian Mobile Disco. We arrived just in time to hear one of our favourite tracks “Audacity of Huge”. The showcase was really great. They played all, from House, to Elektropop, to Techno and Progressive Acid…. wicked! After that we waited for the set of Steve Lawler. The warm up dj before him Terry Toner did a great job to warm up the crowd! Lawler set was great, at the end a bit flat. But we enjoyed it anyway. On the way back to our hotel we also made a quick stop at Escape. The Club was still pretty full and Armin van Buuren played a very melodic trancey set…

Off to bed then. Looking to some very interesting meetings on Thursday.