5 year anniversary issue!

First of all Esther had forgotten to take a felt-tipped pen with her to Amsterdam for the guys to sign the cover with. So we had to buy one. It turned out that it can be quite complicated to buy such a pen in Amsterdam! But we finally succeeded and went back to the hotel. Pretty soon we ran into Warren in the lobby. Esther asked him to sign the cover and told him this was the 5th anniversary issue. Warren obviously understood it was the 5th issue, as he wrote "Congratulations on #5".

Just as we had returned to our seats in the bar, one of the waiters came up to us and told us that "they are in the lobby now, they're about to leave!" Not being used to hotel staff being that friendly towards fans, we didn't really believe him at first. But we decided to see for ourselves. As it turned out, both Simon and John were in the lobby. Simon was talking to someone, so we first went up to John.

As soon as John saw the TDGD logo he looked at Esther and asked "Are you doing this now?", so we explained to him that the editorship had been transferred to her. John also thought at first it was the 5th issue (you should have known better, John!), but we quickly explained to him that it was the 5th anniversary and this was going to be issue 20! "Five years, it's amazing, incredible!", yes John, we think so too!