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Where to start with my "Travels with Charlie" (yes...stealing from John Steinbeck). Should I start with all the stress and drama involved in getting here in the midst of a pandemic? Travel restrictions, wearing a mask for the entire trip, empty airports, empty airplanes, COVID, COVID, COVID! No, let's start out on a positive note.  Then again - I cannot resist posting this photo of Charlie waiting for our rapid COVID test results in Atlanta before we board the plane for Amsterdam.  I assure you, his inner self was not nearly as relaxed as his outer self appears. It was a long trip. So now, let's start out on a positive note.  Charlie's colleagues have been wonderful about getting us here and making us feel welcome. Thanks to one of them, we found a perfect apartment to rent alongside a canal in a great neighborhood before we even got here. And when we arrived in Amsterdam, a driver from the Chambers picked us up at the airport and drove us straight to our place in...