Arriving in Amsterdam

Day 1 - Saturday 25th April

Early Saturday morning Amy (you can find her blog here) and I finally set off on our European adventure! By half eight in the morning we'd arrived safely in Amsterdam after a short flight from Bristol Airport. After some breakfast at the airport, we found some brightly dressed dancers with the letters 'SPRING' near the exit and they we handing out daffodils to everyone. It was a lovely start to our adventure. Once we were outside, we saw one of the famous 'Iamsterdam' signs so of course we had to take some pictures and a selfie or two!

The airport is also a train station so we got our tickets to Amsterdam Central and hopped on a train. After picking up some leaflets from the information centre we started to have a wander around. It was quite a workout considering we had six weeks of stuff on our backs. We had some yummy food at and Argentinian restaurant called Cau, then attempted to find our hotel. We got a bit confused but eventually we found it.

Tiger is having some adventures too, here he is next to the wheel in Dam Square. Behind the wheel you can see the palace, and Madame Tussauds is to the left.

Raahh - Tiger found a big scary friend to hang out with.

J :)

Planning my European adventure

A week today I'll be setting off on an adventure around Europe for about six and a half weeks!

Me and my sister Amy have had this trip in mind for the last year, however we've only started making plans recently, we don't even know the exact date we're coming home yet. We plan to fly out to Amsterdam and fly home from Italy, possibly Sicily. Whist we're there, we'll get around by train using our Interrail passes and other public transport. There's still a lot we've got to figure out over the next week, but here's what we've got planned so far.

Initial Itinerary

Saturday 25th April - Arrive in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (this also happens to be our parents anniversary)

Sunday 26th April - Visit Anne Frank's house

Monday 27th April - Celebrate Kings day - this is a national holiday in the Netherlands that celebrates the Kings birthday and everyone dresses in orange.

Tuesday 28th April - Visit Utrecht for the day