canals, red lights, coffee shops, and flying pigs

alrighty, sorry about the lack of posts for a few days.
got to amsterdam on monday night around 10 after a hellish day of travel. didn't end up going to belfast on the sunday night due to it was all booked out except for some dodgy place where everyone said it had bed bugs.. so i got up early, caught a bus to belfast at 11, which was meant to get there at 1:30, got there at 3:00, then caught a bus to the airport.. got there an hour early before check in began and then waited 3 hours to board. i felt like shooting myself in the head. anyway.. got to amsterdam... got on the wrong train.. waited for 40 minutes in the freezing cold for another train.. got to the hostel and i'd booked for sunday night, so i had lost my reservation and luckily there was a bed available.. the next day however, no bed.. but the lady was so nice, and was like if i don't find you one, i'll put a mattress on the floor. but they found me one, and one until sunday. woo hoo.

so not great first experiences. oh well, it improved.

went to the van gogh musuem on tuesday, which was great, it's so big, so much to see. and it was raining, which makes motivation to do anything come down to about nill. worked on my socialisation skills on tuesday night, met some australian guys, and then met more people from australia, some cool kids, had some drinks at the hostel and then went out to see the town for a little while then head home relatively early.

breakfast here is awesome! it's such a good hostel.. chocolate serial.. come on now that's quality.

on wednesday got together with the australian's and english again and headed out across amsterdam and just walked around, took many many photos, had ollie bollie, chips with mayonaise and tomato sauce, checked some shops, of all kinds.. then had an interesting night chilling out.

i'll have to post the photos there are some really good ones.

today went to the sex musuem which was relatively interesting, if not, it was only 3 euros so i'm not cutting a loss... spent a lot of money.. bought a few things... an amsterdam amsterdam amsterdam bag to rival lizzie's paris paris pairs bag.

tonight i'm buggered so i'll just chill here.

tomorrow's halloween however.

most people left today, and tonight, which is always a downer, meeting people and then having to parting.. but i guess it is all part of travelling...

until next time,