Day in Amsterdam
Went down to breky at 9 yumm sambos again, Kieran didn’t even bother with this she was totally fed up with sandwhiches and non cereal food as breakfast. We met up with the group in the foyer, today we were going on a cycle tour of the damage (Amsterdam’s nickname for obvious reasons). We walked to ‘Mikes cycles’ just a 3 min walk from where we were staying. The group broke up into 2 groups I was at the back of
our group I was the back man who had to look after the slow people back there no one was allowed behind me. Our leader was an American guy named Sean, he told us all about the history and told us some cool stuff as we were cycling around. The 
bikes we rode were like new bikes but old style, hard to describe. Some of the bikes had names I was on Conan the destroyer, Kieran had Charlie you didn’t have to wear helmets yay! Amsterdam is a really pretty city with cobble stone roads and lots of canals. Its really cool how everyone rides bikes and they have a real good way of looking at things, for example if you don’t have lights on your bike instead of 
fining you the police give you a voucher to go to a special shop and get cheap lights, instead of fining a homeless man for annoying people while sitting on a park bench they just took away the park bench; pretty cool.
After the bike ride Kieran and I went to the post office and posted some things home, as we found out it was cheaper to do it here than back in London which I can imagine would be true. Hopefully these items will be arriving home soon. After our postage experience
we walked up to Anne franks house. It was a nice walk along the canal and streets trying to dodge the bikes and cars. Anne’s house was good to see just for the history. I have never read the book but after seeing the house I now know it had a lot of history in it. When we finished Anne’s house we met up with the others they were going somewhere else, we left with Sam and went to have some lunch and do some shopping.
We had heard that Amsterdam was good for clothes; I was looking for a jacket in particular. I went shopping by myself I couldn’t handle looking at all the girly shops with Kieran and Sam, need some time to myself. I ended up not finding a jacket or anything I liked well nothing that jumped out at me and I didn’t want to spend that much on the clothes.(now after seeing the prices of London jackets I should have bought some there) I made
my way back to the hostel from my shopping expedition and got ready for dinner we were having Thai, this was to be our last night on tour. Kieran and I splurged and bought a bottle of wine to have with dinner it was a South African white. It was nice but for 20 euros it would want to be.
After dinner we all went down to our cruise around the canals, the cruise was a 90 min ride in an enclosed boat with not that much head room as it had to pass under the bridges I spent my time ducking. For that 90 min cruise it was all you could drink. Let me tell you, you can fit in a lot of
drinks in 90 mins. It was a good cruise although it was raining and we couldn’t see out the windows that didn’t matter much we were partying. We went back to the hostel after the cruise to have some drinks there where they opened the nightclub for us. It was a good night spent the rest of it partying and dancing, and sending some emails home as they had free internet there (maybe not the brightest ideas after drinks). We all got very happy and were dancing around, the club had a pole on the dance floor which some of the ladies used to show of their skills.
As it was the last night we had to party big. I partied as big as I could go and didn’t want to be bad on the bus the next day so I left when I was happy and wanted to go to bed. I left the club
with Yo and went back to our room where we found David and the some of the girls having a joint in our room without the window open. So now with our room full of pot stink I opened the window and headed off to bed after we kicked the smokers out dammit. Before heading to sleep I set my alarm for the next morning. I ended up in bed at 2 am.
I on the other hand have know idea what time I went to bed. After the cruise me, Sam, Amanda and Vanessa all went to a café. Through some miscommunication we had lost
Teagan and Tarshi. So we went to this ‘café’ in Amsterdam and had a few muffins etc. We were chatting and having fun and at one point we turned around and Vanessa was gone we looked for her everywhere and was a bit worried as she is younger then all of us, but we came to the conclusion that she was an adult and could look after herself so continued to have fun. We headed back to the hostel and joined everyone in the bar/club where we dances, drank and sang. We found Vanessa who really didn’t have an explanation for her disappearance (I wonder why?) but at least she was o.k. me and Sam lost track of time everyone was either pissed, stoned or both. When me and Sam headed for bed we found Tarshi and Teagan in their beds, Hannah was there too. There was clothes and crap all over the floor (typical girls room). Sam and I were trying to find our pyjamas and stuff Sam told me something one of the girls had said to one of the boys (to complicated to explain) and that was it we were laughing and laughing I couldn’t stand up and Sam was almost on the floor too. Then Tarshi started laughing at us it was sooo funny. Teagan eventually woke up and then we talked and talked. It was a funny night!
Went down to breky at 9 yumm sambos again, Kieran didn’t even bother with this she was totally fed up with sandwhiches and non cereal food as breakfast. We met up with the group in the foyer, today we were going on a cycle tour of the damage (Amsterdam’s nickname for obvious reasons). We walked to ‘Mikes cycles’ just a 3 min walk from where we were staying. The group broke up into 2 groups I was at the back of
our group I was the back man who had to look after the slow people back there no one was allowed behind me. Our leader was an American guy named Sean, he told us all about the history and told us some cool stuff as we were cycling around. The 
bikes we rode were like new bikes but old style, hard to describe. Some of the bikes had names I was on Conan the destroyer, Kieran had Charlie you didn’t have to wear helmets yay! Amsterdam is a really pretty city with cobble stone roads and lots of canals. Its really cool how everyone rides bikes and they have a real good way of looking at things, for example if you don’t have lights on your bike instead of 
fining you the police give you a voucher to go to a special shop and get cheap lights, instead of fining a homeless man for annoying people while sitting on a park bench they just took away the park bench; pretty cool.After the bike ride Kieran and I went to the post office and posted some things home, as we found out it was cheaper to do it here than back in London which I can imagine would be true. Hopefully these items will be arriving home soon. After our postage experience
we walked up to Anne franks house. It was a nice walk along the canal and streets trying to dodge the bikes and cars. Anne’s house was good to see just for the history. I have never read the book but after seeing the house I now know it had a lot of history in it. When we finished Anne’s house we met up with the others they were going somewhere else, we left with Sam and went to have some lunch and do some shopping.We had heard that Amsterdam was good for clothes; I was looking for a jacket in particular. I went shopping by myself I couldn’t handle looking at all the girly shops with Kieran and Sam, need some time to myself. I ended up not finding a jacket or anything I liked well nothing that jumped out at me and I didn’t want to spend that much on the clothes.(now after seeing the prices of London jackets I should have bought some there) I made
my way back to the hostel from my shopping expedition and got ready for dinner we were having Thai, this was to be our last night on tour. Kieran and I splurged and bought a bottle of wine to have with dinner it was a South African white. It was nice but for 20 euros it would want to be.After dinner we all went down to our cruise around the canals, the cruise was a 90 min ride in an enclosed boat with not that much head room as it had to pass under the bridges I spent my time ducking. For that 90 min cruise it was all you could drink. Let me tell you, you can fit in a lot of
drinks in 90 mins. It was a good cruise although it was raining and we couldn’t see out the windows that didn’t matter much we were partying. We went back to the hostel after the cruise to have some drinks there where they opened the nightclub for us. It was a good night spent the rest of it partying and dancing, and sending some emails home as they had free internet there (maybe not the brightest ideas after drinks). We all got very happy and were dancing around, the club had a pole on the dance floor which some of the ladies used to show of their skills.As it was the last night we had to party big. I partied as big as I could go and didn’t want to be bad on the bus the next day so I left when I was happy and wanted to go to bed. I left the club
with Yo and went back to our room where we found David and the some of the girls having a joint in our room without the window open. So now with our room full of pot stink I opened the window and headed off to bed after we kicked the smokers out dammit. Before heading to sleep I set my alarm for the next morning. I ended up in bed at 2 am.I on the other hand have know idea what time I went to bed. After the cruise me, Sam, Amanda and Vanessa all went to a café. Through some miscommunication we had lost
Teagan and Tarshi. So we went to this ‘café’ in Amsterdam and had a few muffins etc. We were chatting and having fun and at one point we turned around and Vanessa was gone we looked for her everywhere and was a bit worried as she is younger then all of us, but we came to the conclusion that she was an adult and could look after herself so continued to have fun. We headed back to the hostel and joined everyone in the bar/club where we dances, drank and sang. We found Vanessa who really didn’t have an explanation for her disappearance (I wonder why?) but at least she was o.k. me and Sam lost track of time everyone was either pissed, stoned or both. When me and Sam headed for bed we found Tarshi and Teagan in their beds, Hannah was there too. There was clothes and crap all over the floor (typical girls room). Sam and I were trying to find our pyjamas and stuff Sam told me something one of the girls had said to one of the boys (to complicated to explain) and that was it we were laughing and laughing I couldn’t stand up and Sam was almost on the floor too. Then Tarshi started laughing at us it was sooo funny. Teagan eventually woke up and then we talked and talked. It was a funny night!
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