I'm Going on an Adventure (Alastair and Bini's Exchange Blog)

Woke up this morning and went to the armed place as yesterday for breakfasts. We had a strawberry tart again and proffijes (little pancake things we also had them yesterday but I called them profiteroles my bad). We then went to Anne Frank's house and waited around till 10 o'clock for when our tickets were valid.  Anne Frank's house was fascinating and sad. It was amazing to see all the places she'd written about in her diary. It gave us both perspective about how they lived.  Once we finished Anne Frank's house we went a small little Cafe for lunch and had traditional bitterballen. Which is a Dutch deep fried meetball kinda thing.  Next we headed towards the central station to get a canal tour.  Just a side not the traffic in Amsterdam is chaotic, there are cars, trams and bikes going bloody everywhere and no one seems to be following any road rules. On the other side all the tourist areas have been insanely efficient and well organised. Now back to it  After l...

Woke up at 7am today and seem to be over jet lag. Went out for breakfast at Rene's croissantier which was great. We had a strawberry and custard tart along with a pana chocolate to share costing a total of 8.50 euro. A great breakfast and a big improvement on yesterday. Also at Rene's we bought another custard thing, an apple turnover and a baguette to eat throughout the day.  From here we walked to the train station  searching for a supermarket on the way.  After not finding a super market we had to double back to  get to one and buy ham and cheese to go with our baguette.  On the way bini had a knee issue which slowed us down a bit thoughout the day. (Good now though don't worry beena)  After visiting the supermarket we got on a train to the airport to then catch a bus to keunhof the place where all the tulips were.  Once at the airport we got into the line for the bus and then 30 seconds later the lone literally doubled. We were fairly happy ...

Breakfast this morning was ok but a bit expensive. We got it from the hostel. Had a nice veiw over a canal.  This morning we went to the Van Gogh museum however we discovered that the tickets had to bought online and we only got a spot at 12:45.  While we waited we walked around the area finding a nice water garden just outside the Rijks museam. After this we admired a pond with huge pots or tulips and then had lunch which consisted of a huge meaty hot dog thing for bini and a ham and cheese toasty burger thing for Alastair. Each cost around 6 euro which we thought was ok. Both were very nice and freshly made which we didn't expect as it was a little Street food stall.  Anyway got into Van Gogh museum at 12:30 after getting help from three people to look us up on the system. Also, with the help of bini's quick eyes which found our booking on the helpers Ipad.  The museum was great and we stayed there until 4:30. Three was some amazing paintings and the history of...

So for those who didn't know I've just been back in Australia for two weeks for my brother Morgan wedding. After a few complications with the flight to Aus the wedding was amazing!!! Everything ran perfectly :)  The flight from Adelaide to Amsterdam was good, however the stupid check man took 45 minutes to check us in after making unnecessary complications and generally stuff it all up. To the point that at the gate we had to get it checked again. However the guy at the gate actually had more than two brain cells and sorted it out in 30 seconds. Rest of flight was good. No one got sick and we had a nice baguette in Doha.  First night in Amsterdam was ok but the guys in the bed next to us STANK! (Bini asked for capitals). Also the dorm as whole couldn't work out how to turn on end the lights off until 4 am. The light switch was in a very weird place.  All in all not a bad trip. Much better than last time. We are looking forward to our 3 days in Amsterdam :)