I keep forgetting what i have and havent written about as we cant get on the net everyday, but this place has free internet so taking advantage before we start our day!
we started our day to fresh pancakes for breakfast at the hostel... mmm!! we spent our first day in amsterdam going to anne franks house which was good - surreal to think she actually lived there. i found it really interesting. we then had to move hostels to our second christian shelter... the one in the red light district but disapointingly we couldnt see why it was the red light district?! similar layout, nice again, just in a 4bed this time, so different again. in a room with 2 22yr old californians called jaime and dana - really nice girls! we went on a boat trip in the noon, which was nice, but it wasnt the best weather so didnt look as pretty as expected, which was a shame. walked round the city just looking at the sights - stinks of weed everywhere and we swear it had an affect on us!!!!!!! we were knakered! went back to the hostel and chatted to the girls, then realised we needed to book our train to cologne for the next night as it was a fast one we were getting. so we wandered to the station to do that - the queue was huuuuuge! sat talking to 2 lads from new york - theyd been waiting nearly 3hours! luckily some nice dutch man gave us his ticket so we only waited 1hours which wasnt so bad. got some tea and ate it in the hostel at the cafe... a v nice salad! washed my hair and went t our room to get sorted as check out was 10am.... really nice to have a 4room with 2girls we really got on with... chatted to them for ges and had a good laugh about our fishing rod man and their similar experiences! it turns out we are right nextr door to the red light district but me and lou had been walking obviously in the opposite directiom!!! hahaha! they said they were doing a free walking tour in the morn and asked us to join them, so because we felt we hadnt really seen amsterdam and we liked them we decided to join them.
got up the next morning and went down to breakfast together... fried egg, cheese and ha on toast (these hostels have the best breakfasts, id def go back!) v good! had some time before the tour so played an american card game called phase 10 - its really good! Tom... huge favour, if you see it on your travels please would you buy it for me?! ill pay you back!! may thanks! went to do the free walking tour and literally as soon as we went out of the door, the heavens opened like really bad! we walked through the red light district and even at that time in the morn the woman were sat posing in their windows - i swear half were men!!! v amusing! after about half an hr we gave up on our walking tour as it was soooo nasty! decided to spend the day with Jaime and Dana so had a really good day... did van gogh museum, went to a dutch pancake house and did the heinekan brewary tour! i wish we couldve stayed in amsterdam a day loger as we all wanted to go to some windmills, but we never made it cs of the weather, but the girls have promised us pictures! lol. rushed back to the hostel, got our bags and to the station... train to cologne! so we were briefly in germany yesterday! we must look v friendly as on the train, there was this v cute little black kid playing stick tongue games out with me, and then this guy sat across the aisle from me decided to join in - he was just like a yossef!! dutch too! v amusing! anyway he struck up a convo and literally 2mins in gave me all is contact details and told us to look him up next time we were in holland! he was v cool - european dresser, best style and in fashion! lol. had a minor panic in cologne as no-onr spoke english and we needed to collect our sleeper train tickets - the woman was v ignorant - grrrr! we tried speaking german, but it ddnt work and she was mean! anyway, i asked a man if he spoke english and then if he spoke german (which was prob pretty ob soon as wer in germany!) and he v kindly helped us and we got our tickets from a machine using our reservation number which was good! got on a sleeper train... 2sets of 3 bed bunks in the tinest space ever!!!! v wierd! there was us 2and a danish lad in - he was v nice and helpful with our bags and stuff and made me laugh as we were on the bottom bunks and he was on the top on the opposite side to me and kept waving and making jokes! a few stops later we got an american woman and a russian man who spoke v limited english! i had the worst night sleep ever, but it was enjoyable all the same! i decided to have a wander at about 4ish and the nice danish man joined me which was nice! this morn me,lou and mr danish turned my bed into a sofa and made the room a bit more social which was nice! arrived here at about 10this morn - slept in our clothes, but got changed this morn on the train - those deodrant wipes came in handy!!
we had no directions to the hostel, only what bus to get, but we spent too much money yest so decided to walk, found a map and i navigated v well (i think lou will agree! lol) and we got to the hostel o probs, about 20min walk but its sunny here! yay! hostel seems ok, only here 1night so its cool... put our bags in lockers and then came to the comp... im swaying still, its so wierd! sos lou tho so its not just me! also we got bitten last night - ddnt expect it from a train stupidly so never sprayed, not that i have much anyway to be fair! wer going to tivoli today and spending the whole day there - theres a big firework display at like 1230 tonight to wev already asked about buses ad taxis back - itl be the first time wev been out in the dark! wish us luck! 
anyway, going to head off now... eugh just noticed its stared to rain - gutted!!!! ah well! lou sensibly bought a €4 umbrella from the last hostel, but i never.. may have to get one today!
thanks for coming on reas... males me feel somones actually reading!! hahaha! get the net sorted please!
much love jade xxxxx
ps arctic monkeys - hell yea!!! who, what, where, why, when?! xxxxx
