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Travel Blogs from Amsterdam
The city of walking.....
... houses mean narrow staircases so they cant move furniture up and down stairs so the houses have a hook on the bottom of the roof and they drag everything up through the windows. . It really was a lovely way to spend an hour. We are really enjoying Amsterdam and look forward to returning again, there are so many bikes it is amazing...everywhere bikes are locked up, transporting children reminded us of Asia except there it is motorbikes today we have ...
Amsterdam - Day 2
... 160;Ben had a steak tartare, this is minced raw beef. At the time of ordering it he was unaware that it was raw but after getting the meal we both tried it and were pleasantly surprised how nice it was. After lunch we headed to Amsterdam Museum - as we felt we'd been through a lot of Museums already, we quickly went through and checked out snippets of what they had to offer, it ...
Post-Contiki depression: Amsterdam & London
AMSTERDAM & LONDON The day after Contiki finished we suffered from post-Contiki depression. Lisa slept all day and I sat in bed looking through photos from our tour making myself sad. It felt so weird being by ourself and not being constantly surrounded by people. Lisa and I had to quickly find a place to stay in Amsterdam due to our last minute decision to stay instead of going back to London. Two of the boys from our Contiki called Nick and Joel were staying ...
Day 23-24 Cruising in Amsterdam
... we climbed all over it taking photos, before going for a wander back through town, passing the flower markets on the way as well as stopping in a cheese shop for way too many samples –so good tho!
After eating most of their samples we felt compelled to buy some cheese which we then took back to the hostel and ate almost the whole thing with crackers, having a bunch ...
Our Mildly Raunchy Trip to Amsterdam
... missed my connecting flight to Amsterdam. Obviously panicked, I talked to the flight attendants of the useless airline, US Airways, and eventually found my way onto a flight to Newark (New Jersey), which would in turn get me to Amsterdam. The downside? It was 9pm when I missed my flight, and my flight to Newark wasn't leaving until 9am. So ... I found a cheap motel ($66/night) and took an unmarked white van out into the Philly outskirts. Sketchy, right? Arriving at the motel, it ...