Sometimes, I can't believe the things I get myself into.
I can't believe that I went through 4 countries in the European continent all in one day. The day began at 6:45 am in London where the Contiki European Discovery tour was kicked-off. There, I met with the 41 other people that I was travelling with for 12 days in a coach to get a glimpse of Europe. Our first stop was Amsterdam. To get there, however, we were going to ride a ferry to France, drive through Belgium and then eventually end up in the Netherlands and stay over in Amsterdam.
The drive through London wasn't bad. We were fairly cruising through the whole day. The ferry was in Dover and we saw the White Cliffs which were quite fascinating. As we drove through Belgium, our guide, Dave, was telling us its history. It's actually quite fascinating how the country has a very apparent division between the North and the South. We stopped a bit in Belgium and I got some chocolates which I'm hoping will survive until I go home. At around 5:30, we got into Amsterdam and was checked in our hotel by 6:00.
After dinner, we had a canal cruise through the canals of Amsterdam. In other words, I got to see Amsterdam's city at night on a boat. We passed a lot of boathouses and the famous sites in Amsterdam. It was an absolutely gorgeous city. However, I wasn't quite ready for Amsterdam. In all honesty, I didn't know what Amsterdam was all about until I got there. The city was nice to look at but, as my 12 day roommate describes it, everything was just an "OMG" moment. And yes, I'm quite aware that that means a lot of things. You can figure it out for yourself, my dear reader.
From the canal cruise, there was another excursion and four of us didn't join that one. Thus, we needed to figure out how to head back to the hotel via the tram. Dave gave us directions. However, Dutch is a hard language to figure out and the tram was ALL in Dutch. And knowing my luck, of course I had a little adventure going home and I was already with other people.
The picture was taken from the walk to the tram station in the city. We weren't quite sure where the tram station was so we were wandering for a bit and saw a lot of the city at night.
I was dead tired when I got back to the hotel (yes, I did get back) I read a bit for my essay but I ended up crashing anyways. We were heading to the Rhine Valley, to St. Goar, Germany to be exact bright and early the next day
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