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Westminster Abbey I got up relatively early for this trip, as our flight was at 1pm from City Airport. Unfortunately I had to carry my bag on my back for the entire hour or so I was in the abbey, which was quite painful considering it weighs close to 20kg and is more like a suitcase with unconvincing backpack straps. There's so much history here, it was built around 1066 (when the Normans invaded), and has been used for every royal coronation since, as well as being the wedding and burial si...

We were again lucky with the queues today when we headed to the Van Gogh museum. When Van Gogh died his brother took possession of all of his works that hadn't already been sold. This has been turned into a museum by his descendents and is quite an impressive collection of his works. It is interesting as it is laid out in chronological order of when it was painted, allowing you to see the change in his style of painting as his talent developed. I never realised that Van Gogh didn't start pain...

Amsterdam is a beautiful city with great history and culture, trying to shake its mantle as the sex and drugs capital of Europe. You have to wonder how many of its visitors realise just how much else this city has to offer. I too was guilty, on my last visit, of taking in only those very typical Amsterdam sights such as the red light district, beer museums and coffee shops. This time I was really looking forward to seeing another side to Amsterdam and getting to know it as the interesting cit...

Got to spend the night at Amsterdam because of our delayed flight.

Entry containing 3 photos titled: A dreary morning in Amsterdam, Museumplein, Van Gogh Museum

Awoke ridiculously early in St. Goar to check out, and go on another one of Contiki's sponsors' demonstration/shopping stop. This one was about Beersteins, but they were just way to expensive, and I'd spent enough money in the Lucerne the day before, so I stepped outside and bought a delicious fruity pastry from a bakery. At 8:45am, we all loaded onto the bus, and were on our way towards The Netherlands. After driving for the better part of the morning and afternoon, we arrived at a cheese an...