More travel possible, page-30

I should leverage my position here with these friends (who have just left for a couple of weeks but, I will catch up with soon again) - because they are very closely connected with an ex dutch PM - so, they know a lot about the system and the current PM and policies
we haven't discussed politics much beyond them telling me about Mark Rutte and we discussed some of the pension system and the medical system (they are both health professionals - one retired recently).
So, I should gain some knowledge from close to the bone so to speak.
Not sure how long they have been connected to the ex PM - but, from the sounds of it - a long time because of what they are doing together atm.
Ya never know who you meet roaming in Fr I'm pretty good at seeing/recognizing faces - and, I'm sure I've seen some here that are famous one way or another - out in public just roaming around like the rest of us - it's hard to see through the lack of makeup and some aging though - but, some are ?? almost unmistakable.