We found the lock this morning but not the sock! The lock turned out to be on the coach having fallen off my backpack. We set off around 7:45am, 15mins late after most of the tour group were trashed after their pubcrawl last night. Some had come back around 4am whilst some arrived back at the hotel just an hour before our departure time at 6:30am! Troy didn’t even make it back! Jaz left him instructions to catch a train from Berlin to Amsterdam.
We hit the highway (or should I say Autobahn) and drove west towards Amsterdam. We hit some traffic around 10am and here we are crawling our way towards Amsterdam!
After a lunch break at a roadside service station restaurant (we had an ok chicken schnitzel), we continued on watching Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers back to back on the coach! We finally reached Amsterdam at around 5:45pm after driving 670km in around 9hrs thanks to traffic! We were supposed to see a cheese and clog making demo but this was postponed to when we leave Amsterdam due to insufficient time today.
We checked into Best Western at Blue Tower which turned out to be just about our best accommodation so far! Nice clean accommodation with plasma tv, kettle and coffee/tea, but no fridge. One thing we’ve noticed throughout our trip in Europe is that when we boil water, there are often floaties in the water! Not sure if it’s the European water or our kettle! We tried the hotel’s kettle though and got the same result. Maybe it is something in the water…!
At 6:45pm we met up in foyer and Matty drove us to Central station. Then Jaz walked us to the Red Light District. Most of the group were seeing a live sex show at a place called Moulin Rouge but Jonathan, Erika, Di and I opted to just go for dinner and then a stroll afterwards. After walking around the huge Chinatown (conveniently situated in the red light district!), we ended up settling on an Indian restaurant since we’ll be having our farewell dinner tomorrow night at a floating Chinese restaurant.
The Indian waiter/owner was really really friendly! We ordered 2 curries and asked that he make them very hot and boy did he deliver! We were sweating and our noses were running and the red wine we ordered didn’t really help! The waiter stood there laughing at us!
After dinner we walked to Dam square to check out the National monument, the palace and a cathedral. Then we headed back to Moulin Rouge to meet up with the group for a nighttime tour of the red light district! Jaz led us through narrow passageways and down the infamous skinny alley. It was sad to see girls selling themselves in shop windows.
At around 10:30pm, the others went out for drinks, whilst Matty led us to the Central Station bus stop where we caught the number 21 bus back to our hotel! Nite!
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