amsterdam
hello folks
I was hoping this would be my catch-up blog, though there are lots of boys sleeping in our dorm and I didn’t want to go back in there to fumble for the keys to unlock the box with my luggage in it, and then find my diary.
SO! I will just tell you about today and then catch up when I can next.
The flight was only 50 minutes, of which I dozed (but unfortunately didn’t sleep as my hand kept slipping from propping my head up.. i’m cool) and then we got off to what was a fairly cold grey day. which we expected. but amsterdam doesn’t need good weather so we’re not at all disappointed.
I am an effing fool and forgot to bring our hostel information with us, so we had to go to the sheraton built into the airport to use their business lounge (only place with a printer apparently) which cost me TEN EUROS. massive cry! but moving on. we got it, caught a train to amsterdam central and found our hostel quite easily, it’s right by the canal down an (populated) alley.
it’s quite good. we’re on the bottom level. our room has 14 or 16 beds in it (8 bunks) and when we got in there earlier today, it was full of boys sleeping on their bunks and on the floor. one woke up and I said hello, he said hey. australian accent. we thought they must have arrived today and want to have a big night out, so they were having a nap. so we went out for an hour or two to look at some shops and see what’s around, had something to eat, and head back to unpack a bit without worrying about waking them up. our room was dark, so I walked in a bit, then realised they’re all still there! i’m hoping they’re not in for the night, coz we’ll have to get our pjs out at some point and we’ll make heaps of noise. arrrr!
so now we’ve escaped the room again for a little while hoping they’ll be awake by the time we get back. fingers crossed.
it’s really nice here! the hostel is quite clean, they do a free breakfast. there’s a smoking room which always has a lot of people in there ahahah. lots of shops seem to smell marijuana-pops. like. lollies. interesting! there are some really cool souveinirs (not marijuana ha) that i’ve been trying to resist, and clogs! ahahaha. we mgiht end up buying a pair of cheap gloves though. the wind is freezing.
ohhhh the guy next to me is rolling a joint. I can smell it.
where was I. I’m distracted now. trying to tell sam on facebook chat so that she looks without me saying it outloud hahah.
oh right. hmmm. we want to hire a bike! reallllllly bad. maybe tomorrow?! maybe we’ll be able to. we wanna go to anne franks house, too. that’ll be amazing. I loved reading her diary, it would be great to see where it all happened.
directly across the canal from us, and down the opposite alley, there’s a massive sign that says “sex shop” ahahhaa. this place is funny, to say the least. seems quite family friendly though, coincidently. there are a lot of families here travelling.
i’m running out of things to say as today has been reasonably uneventful.
I have had a headache all day. I want it to go away but they don’t seem to sell headache tablets here. I suppose they have other remedies for it. ha. I’d just like nurofen plz.
it’s 8:45pm here. we have about 15mins left, hopefully when we get back the boys will either be awake, or out already. hopefully. I wanna sleep.
I have a feeling this will be a fun trip. bye bye for now! xo
