Queens Day

Hello today was Queens day in Amsterdam. We got a really late start to the day sleeping until noon. We went to get some food and met up with about 60o,000 people walking in the street. It was pretty intense, the city transit was shut down as the streets are flooded by people and street vendors. Today we probably did the most walking of the whole trip and the days soundtrack was basically loud house music everywhere you went. The canals were loaded with boats and most everybody was wearing orange. It was very mardigras-esc with the floats in the streets being replaced by packed boats on the canals. If there wasn't hous music filling our ears it was cover bands or these 2 kickass jazz guitarists that we watched for awhile. They were pretty good. We ended up stopping at the same bakery from yesterday and got more of those cookies and this amazing waffle thing that had sugar in the middle of it. For dinner we had steaks with french fries and mayo (everything has massive amounts of mayo on it). At the end of the night the streets were filled with alot of trash.

no pics for queens day. what happens in amsterdam stays in amsterdam

Amsterdam Day One

Hello everyone, good day to you. We got up real early to get to Gatwick Airport to fly to Amsterdam. On the train from Victoria Station to Gatwick we luckily went past the factory from the Animals album cover, John was very happy to say the least. We arrived in Amsterdam and we had no idea where to go. We eventually found out we needed to take a tram. By the way, Amsterdam has some of the most gorgeous women we have ever seen. That is probably why We couldn't focus very well on figuring out where to go in the first place.
We had lunch near Central Station and then took the tram near our hotel. We almost missed our stop because we had no idea what they were saying for the stops. We finally asked where to go and found our hotel. The hotel is pretty nice. There are 4 single beds in the room and we were happy to shower up and change our clothes. The temperature was about 75 degrees and lugging our bags around sucked, so you get the point.
We headed into the main part of the city and it was already crowded and Queensday isn't until tomorrow. Amsterdam is really cool, a bit dirty but the canals and cobble stone streets are unbelievable. We headed over to Anne Frank's House first. We waited on line for about an hour and a half. I always imagined it was just a big attic room but it was a series of rooms connected. It is really scary to think how they felt living there and always being afraid of getting caught. After the tour, we walked around the city more and ended up eating an early dinner at a cool little restaurant on a canal. We sat at an outside table and had unbelievable sandwich's and drank coffee. After dinner we stopped by this croissant bakery and Tyler got this Apple Turnover that he loved, he also got these almond cookies and when he ate those he practically was dancing in the streets. Tyler is very wierd by the way.
We went back to the hotel and napped for a couple of hours and then we headed out on the town. Tyler took some pictures while we were walking around and then we stopped at this outside Irish pub. The city was already starting to get a little crazy with circus acts and stages with outside concerts going on.

-B

Twas the day before amsterdam...

Hello all! Today we got to sleep in a bit, which we sorely needed. Luckily the canadien dudes left from the hostel and were replaced by fresh smelling and at least mildly attractive women. These women also brought the added bonus of not snooring so loud so happiness all around! Now we had a rock'n roll tour around 2pm so even though we got up around 11 we figured we had some time to kill. Unfortunatly for us we asked about three diffrent people directions to where the tour began and each person put us in a diffrent direction so we actually missed the begining! We were pretty set on going though so we called the tour group and the told us where to meet up with them. The tour was really cool as london is about as good as it gets as far as rock history goes. We saw where both jimmy hendrix and freddy mercury died and got to cross abbey road. Unfortuantly, and i am pissed for this, we missed the floyd part of the tour so we didnt get to see the factory that the used for the "animals" cover or the studio they recored their first singles and atom heart mother in..... :( The tour guide was pretty chill though and we got to see Camden where most of the music scene is and the younger crowd hangs out. The Rock tour was supposed to be followed by the phantom pub tour we had missed before. We waited again and again no tour! We are not sure if we are going in the wrong place or if this tour group just sucks but we made other plans instead. We ended up going back to camden for drinks and had a good time. A few local ladies took an interest in our boy T! He had to fight them off before they could get thier meathooks in'em! After the bar we decided to get a late dinner and hit up some indian food. It was self destruction.... - john

london day 2

So our first night has past. We didn't make it the whole day without taking a short nap, it helped. We went to dinner at the White Lion, which was right across from the real Nag's Head. Tyler ordered the mad cow burger. He asked for it medium and the waitress looked at him like he was suicidal. He ended up getting it well done. After dinner we went back to the hostel real quick and went to a pub and just chilled the rest of the night. When we were at the hostel we tested John's alarm clock and we couldn't get it to work, funny story about that later, we ended up buying another one at a convenience store. At the pub We had some Guiness, which we think had more alcohol in it then at home, John was complaining that he couldn't feel his teeth.

Sleeping at the hostel was interesting to say the least. There was 12 people in our room including us. The room stunk of BO and there was a harmony of snoring all night. None of us slept well, without the annoying atmosphere it was hard enough adjusting to the time difference. About an hour into sleeping an alarm starts going off. Everyone gets up and is looking around to see who was turning it off. A long minute or two later Tyler and I figured out it was John's broken alarm clock and we woke him up. He took it out and the screen was blank, the thing had a mind of it's own, that would only happen to John. By the way, our Pub tour was rescheduled to Saturday night, if you were wondering.

Today we did the London Tour. First we went to the tower of London, then a cruise down the river, Westminster Abbey and finally Buckingham palace. We learned a lot and saw many cool places. Right now Tyler and John are hacking in a London park while I am writing this on a bench. We are heading to dinner soon, we are thinking Indian or Thai. Tomorrow we have the rock and roll tour and the pub tour, we'll let you know how those go and if anything else crazy happens tonight.

London

Well, we caught an early flight to London. I think we got a grand total of 2 hours of sleep, if we were lucky. The underground was easy to follow but we got a little lost looking for the hostel. After walking in a huge circle we found it and dropped our packs off. We just walked around London, ate lunch in the street and are now having coffee to try and keep ourselves awake. We stil have a few hours to go until our Pub Tour tonight, stay tuned for more!

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