Today Karen went (on her own ...!) to the Hague to the Chinese Consulate to apply for the visa for our travel to China. Everything is done within two hours, with urgent service.
Normaly this application will cost 42 euro per Visa and this will be ready in one week time.

There is an extra service called "Urgent service" which costs an extra 35 euro (!) to speed up the process; if you apply before 10:30 am, the Visa will be ready by 12:00 noon. Seems like a good business to me.

After handling over 2 x 77 euros, the reception counter at the consulate handed back our passports with the VISAs.