Jesse:
I have just made 3 unsuccessful atempts at calling Caryl in Accra from 3 different phones in the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. In each case, the polite international operator informed me that I cannot call Ghana (nor send an SMS message there) from the particular phone I am using! They also couldn't tell me if there are any phones in the airport that will allow calls to Ghana to go through! I will resist the racial presumptions, but this is wierd. I guess Ghanians in Amsterdam use their wireless GSM phones to call their loved ones and tell them they arrived safely.

Ok, this is probably bad, but I have a 6 hour layover here and little desire to go and hang around in Amsterdam. First of the all, everythings closed right now (0719 local) and its a cool 40 degress outside. And finally, I have the Dutchman's Revenge. (The instructions for taking the Imodium, I just bought, are in Dutch so I'll have to dope-out the dosage.)