Against all of our expectations of this place, last nights sleep was comfortable and relatively undisturbed! We were up at a lazy 9.30am and all breakfasted in time to grab the Sandeman’s Tour of Amsterdam. Which, as usual, means a rather unexciting blog! We mainly just wandered around the canals, past all the houses with their unique Amsterdam character, learning little stories here and there. It was a nice and entertaining little intro to the city, as always. There are perhaps not so many impressive building to see here, the best way to enjoy Amsterdam seems to be wander around and soak up the relaxed atmosphere.
After that my blog gets a bit uninteresting! We headed back to the hostel, getting there about 2.30pm and then relaxing with books and internet (plus a bit of sleep) until at least 5pm. We grabbed two hostel pizzas for dinner, plus some wine and beer. From there we spent the evening wandering aimlessly around the street of Amsterdam! We had initially planned to go on a pub crawl and walked past the first pub – the people spruiking the crawl gave everyone around us flyers but were apparently not interested in us. So we decided we weren’t interested in them. Instead we wandered - we ate lots of random things, from ‘Holland’s Best Fries’, to waffles, to these random Febo snack out of a wall things they have here. We got lost a few times but eventually found our way home or a much needed sleep.
(It is funny that we do seem a little out of place here. Not the usual young drunken tourists apparently. Particularly in our hostel, we are very tame indeed!)
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