Amsterdam

First job for today was to book our train out of here! We leave tomorrow, so 24 hours to spend in Amsterdam...

First stop was the Anne Frank Huis, however the queue was miles long, so we decided to come back later.

We found our first bit of culture in the Rijksmuseum. We saw everything from Van Gogh's self portrait to lots of old guns. Next we caught Meijer's Rondvaarten - a canal trip around the city. After that we headed to a museum of a different kind...

The Erotisch Museum was well funny :)

As we headed back to Anne Frank's Huis the heavens opened, but that was a good thing as when we arrived there was no queue! It would have been worth it tho - it was so humbling.

It took us a while to find the highly recommended Bojos - an Indonesian restaurant - really good food and cheap! For desert we had some space cake - bit crap really :(

After food we bimbled around the city and we offered all sorts of things - "fresh pussy", "sex", "something", drugs,... time to move on.

And they're off...

Colin's family have said that I am really brave spending five weeks inter-railing around Europe with him - I hope he's not that bad...

Our inter-rail pass does not kick in for a few days so we caught a (qu)easyjet flight to Amsterdam.

Upon arriving in Amsterdam the first thing I noticed was the smell. It was a curious combination of marijuana and piss...

Anyway our first job was to find accommodation. First we tried the Flying Pig - no room, so choice number two was Hotel Beursstraat. It's moto: clean and simple and at €40 per night it'll do.

Our next mission was to find food and drink, but we accidentally (?) ended up in the red light district :)

It's all very tongue in cheek. I wandered around not really knowing where to look and occasionally giggling like a little school boy. There were women in shop windows and blokes queuing up as if they were in Tesco! I really didn't get it...