Being there (Nov.19-Nov.27th)
Nov 19, 2008 (12 photos)

Act 1. Scene 2. Being there (nov.19th-27th) Part 1. But the fire is so delightful The weather in Amsterdam is completely unpredictable. Gone are the days of "It looks like a nice day out there" or "It's supposed to rain today", and welcome to the city where you are sure to experience at least three seasons in the span of about an hour. One minu...

A travel blog entry from Amsterdam by marlie

Redlights, Coffeeshops and Canals
Oct 14, 2008 (49 photos)

Amsterdam. What to say. After all three of us rolled around the whole night on the bus? we arrived extremely early at a train station far from the center station. We all bought tickets and got to the central station, Dylan and looking to book a hostel for Karen and find our hostel on the internet, Karen protecting the bags and me going for a wa...

A travel blog entry from Amsterdam by dhrycun

Test: Can I go back to a backpacker lifestyle?
Sep 13, 2008 (3 photos)

I found out at the last minute that I had to go to Holland with work on a Monday, so I took advantage of this perk by going for the whole weekend! As it's not long since I've been traveling, I thought staying in a hostel wouldn't be a problem at all. I clearly didn't think it through properly! This was the worst hostel experience I have ever enc...

A travel blog entry from Amsterdam by kathryn77

Windmills and Space Cakes
Aug 17, 2008 (3 photos)

We arrive late at night after an exciting train journey where we had to run to make our connection which was due to leave the opposite platform one minute after our train arrived, and german trains run exactly to schedule. But not as interesting as the train at Varna where the train was to split to go to Istanbul and we'd got in the wrong carri...

A travel blog entry from Amsterdam by jenx

Weekend in Amsterdam
May 18, 2008 (46 photos)

Well Amsterdam was interesting... to say the least! It was a mission to get there on the Thursday night straight after work, but arrived in Amsterdam about midnight, thought we'd leave the partying till the next night cause we were pretty buggered... silly idea, may as well have been out there drinking and doing god knows what because we had a t...

A travel blog entry from Amsterdam by angelakeen

Holland
Jul 8, 2005 (1 photo)

Hi everyone. Well Im sure you would all like to know about whats been happening with us....yes we're okay! Our first hiccup was in Belfast Airport! we thought we were doing really well while waiting to board our plane but after 40 minutes we realised we were waiting at the wrong departure gate....eeek so we had to run to the right one. haha but ...

A travel blog entry from Amsterdam by moya-and-linda