Hotel The Globe Centre Amsterdam

Well Amsterdam was interesting... to say the least! It was a mission to get there on the Thursday night straight after work, but arrived in Amsterdam about midnight, thought we'd leave the partying till the next night cause we were pretty buggered... silly idea, may as well have been out there drinking and doing god knows what because we had a total of 30 minutes sleep the whole night i think (except rusty who fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow and slept for about 8 hrs - in the m...

Amsterdam. What to say. After all three of us rolled around the whole night on the bus? we arrived extremely early at a train station far from the center station. We all bought tickets and got to the central station, Dylan and looking to book a hostel for Karen and find our hostel on the internet, Karen protecting the bags and me going for a walk around the city, looking for the hostel. When I got back, Karen and Dylan had used her phone to ask a friend who had internet where our hostel was....

I found out at the last minute that I had to go to Holland with work on a Monday, so I took advantage of this perk by going for the whole weekend! As it's not long since I've been traveling, I thought staying in a hostel wouldn't be a problem at all. I clearly didn't think it through properly! This was the worst hostel experience I have ever encountered, and if I'd done this first, I'd say it would have put me off traveling. Unless you're a stag party, or are a crowd of guys, I wouldn't recom...

Act 1. Scene 2. Being there (nov.19th-27th) Part 1. But the fire is so delightful The weather in Amsterdam is completely unpredictable. Gone are the days of "It looks like a nice day out there" or "It's supposed to rain today", and welcome to the city where you are sure to experience at least three seasons in the span of about an hour. One minute you are in your T-shirt lazily relaxing in the sun, the next buddle up and fighting your way through snow or sleet to reach some form of temporary ...

Hi everyone. Well Im sure you would all like to know about whats been happening with us....yes we're okay! Our first hiccup was in Belfast Airport! we thought we were doing really well while waiting to board our plane but after 40 minutes we realised we were waiting at the wrong departure gate....eeek so we had to run to the right one. haha but when we got to amsterdam we found the right train and the right hostel! the hostel is in the red light district with lots of shady people hanging arou...

Hello again everyone! As usual I’ll begin with an apology for the tardiness of this instalment in the increasingly inadequate and infrequent blog-like chronicle of our mediocre travel exploits, though I’m inclined to add that the apology is more habitual than sincere… ;)
As I write this, I am sitting at a table outside the lovely Nijdam house in southern Holland where we’ve spent the last couple of days enjoying some lovely dutch sunshine and hospitality. It’...