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Mad and boring motorways
... windbreaker makes.
As I plodded off away from the hotel it was simply cold and overcast but within ten minutes it was raining also. Perhaps it was just a reminder as to what the weather back in Scotland is like!!
Onto the m/way and the temp is struggling to reach 2 Celsius and for the next 100 mile or so the temp sat between 2 and 4 Celsius and it sure felt like that also.
These autobahns in Germany are great in that one can just ...
We love Amsterdam!
... as we'd wanted to go to leidseplein but completely missed it, we went back to the hostel and made some friends! Taish and Luan, both from Brazil, were planning to go see the red light district so we went with. It was pretty surreal and a little bit shocking with all the girls in windows wearing nothing but underwear and the many clubs offering live porn shows. It was very funny and a little predictable when Taish tried to get a picture of the prostitutes, which prompted ...
Rain, fresh squeezed orange juice and cheese!
... LEAST 50 cars drive into the canals a year! thats like one a week! they really should stop driving on sidewalks!
again it was raining.... so I went in the "Heineken EXPERIENCE" they dont like when you call it a tour. and an experience it was. The first half was geared for late twenties and older. you sipped beer, learned the history of the company and how the beer is brewed. The second half more geared for ...
No Plan B this time
... so wet that you could hear the water sloshing in them. At one point, we passed those same two women who had now donned the appropriate rain gear and said to us. "now you are truly experiencing real Dutch weather". Yay. Once the rain stopped, the sun did peak out momentarily and we were able to begin to dry. But really, it was the relentless wind that came later that accomplished the real blow dry. Anyway, at one point we passed a small parade. It was at this point that due to the ...
Day One: Amsterdam at last, terra firma...amazing.
... tram to the Hotel for an early night.
Day Two: Breakfast was first, to a small cafe in a quaint tree lined street near the Hotel. Good coffee was easy to find anywhere and this was no exception. So far everyone we met was friendly and their English amazing. If I could speak Dutch half as well as they spoke English, I would be very happy.
A tram into the city and to a phone shop to buy a prepaid phone and then another tram to Dam ...