Sadly we were unable to stay at Pratik's place because of the train strike in London... We flew to London from Vancouver to be followed with a cruise leaving Amsterdam. So for a nice change from more flying we thought we'd stay at Pratik's place, then get on the Eurorail chunnel train to Amsterdam which takes under 5 hours. We, like many others had to scramble to find other modes of transportation and so ended up having to fly straight to Amsterdam. I'm sure Pratik's place was fine even though we didn't actually stay there! :-)