Amsterdam – Kathleen’s version

August 26th, 2008 , 19:22

Slept in as we weren’t in any hurry. We had decided on the late breakfast, which was a champagne breakfast at 10.15. The early breakfast on Monday was mad as that’s the one everyone goes to so they can get into the park bright and early. Got up late, got our bags packed, and checked out before going to breakfast. Had a leisurely breakfast while discussing how we wanted to go to Amsterdam. We had a few thoughts about going to Delft or the coast but in the end decided to go the motorway the whole way. We went through Rotterdam, Delft and Den Haag just in case we decided to stop.

The drive was pretty straight forward and we decided the weather wasn’t nice enough to go to the coast and we couldn’t be bothered to try to stop (read that as I couldn’t be bothered to try to figure out how to get into Delft and Joe couldn’t be bothered with seeing lots of art). So we headed straight for the airport and car hire drop off.

Then back to Amsterdam by train and tram. Finally found the hotel. We can open the door but can’t get to the far side of the room without crawling over the bed! We decided to do the canal boat tour and to do the daytime one rather than waiting to do the evening cruise. Shall have to do that one next time! It was lovely pottering along and seeing Amsterdam from the canal. Then Joe took me off to a little bar that Olly had found. Very very good food. We had far too much to drink and a very nice meal. Now in the art bar updating the blog before heading off to sleep. We’re off home tomorrow.

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Amsterdam – Joe’s version

August 26th, 2008 , 19:15

Kathleen awoke far too early (it was after 7!) still hoping to get into hte park and that the Python would be fixed. However, after explaining we were going back to Amsterdam she did calm down a bit. So we packed the bags, checked out of the hotel, put the bags in the car, and went back for our champagne breakfast. One has to say that champagne and coco pops don’t necessarily mix (duh). We then decided to head the quickest route back to Amsterdam. There was a few interesting sights on the way we tried to take photos of but we didn’t stop. We got back to the airport about midday, returned the car, headed to the main airport building, where we got our train tickets and strippen cards (these are cards that you can use on the trams in Amsterdam, buy them in blocks of 10 or 15 and much cheaper than paying for individual journeys on the trams; plus it’s easier to get on and off some trams because you can’t pay with cash. You can buy them from the newsagents at the airport.) Once in Amsterdam we got to the hotel, which was not quite where we thought it was, we had to purchase a map to find it! But we were not far off. We checked in to a much more typical Amsterdam hotel room where you can’t open the door because the bed is in the way. We then walked back to the entrance to the Voldelpark, next to the casino where we took a boat tour of Amsterdam. After which we went to a brown bar where we had dinner, a couple of very nicely done steaks. After which we retired for a drink before going back to bed.

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