Ran into a rather lovely person at the airport in Amsterdam on Monday and we proceeded to catch a train into our first city together as fellow travellers! Cool hostel, lots of Australian music (usually the last thing you want to hear in a new country) and great free breakfast (Musli! Yes!) Bit tired that night but the next day was jampacked with cruising along canals, learning how to dodge bikes and seeing some cool peices at the Rijkes Museum. The next day was possibly one of the best of in the whole trip, we trained it out to Den Haag and hired some retro bikes and cruised around the city's parks, beaches and fairs going on for the Queens Birthday celebrations. Writing this from queens birthday as we speak, Amsterdam has gone crazy! Everyone is wearing orange and is dancing and drinking in the streets like it is the best day of their lives! The coolest moment was seeing one of many huge boats out on the canals bursting with dancing A'dammers in pirate suits to house music, smoke machines, DJ- crazy! We also had a pretty lovely picnic near a windmill this arvo and vee had way more chocolate than me, hehe.
A small piece from chris -
Oma really wanted us to go to Den Haag and at first I wasn't sure but after all the stuff we got through on the first day, there couldn't have been a better scene change. Sarah and I had a great time cycling through the city and coast.
We are staying in central amsterdam, I've never come across so much weed in my life - it's everywhere. The people seem very ready do have a good time and on the queen's birthday the whole place just comes alive. Boats on the canal packed with people with dance music, stalls on the street selling random junk and cafes with drinks and food on the street to top you up on the way. The archecture is amzing, both Amsterdam and Den Haag are rather different but both beautiful in their own right.
So this is chris vt's 1st contribution from the trip. I must say holidays are so good when you don't take them very ofen!
