What a crazy 4 days!
Ben and I left Amsterdam and headed to the beach for two days…which
ended up being 4 days. We just haven’t wanted
to leave.
The first night we had a drink at the hostel bar and then
headed to bed. We were recovering from
Kings Day and just really wanted a good nights sleep and we were planning on
hiring bikes the next day and riding out to see the tulips. Im not one for flowers so I wasn’t overly
keen on spending the money to get in, but wow!
It was amazing! We ended up going
with a few people from the hostel and we had a blast, who would’ve thought that
flowers could be so much fun. There were
so many of them, and the colours were just amazing. We were running around taking photos like
they were going out of style lol. We didn’t
get to see everything because we had to get the bikes back and it was about a
10km ride back to the beach. 10km seems
far I know, but to be honest it didn’t seem that far. Bike riding is such a different experience in
Holland, its so…enjoyable? I really don’t
know how to explain it…but its fun!
That night a bunch of us (Jess, Hayla, Ryan, Ricky) and of course
Ben and I, went down to the carnival on the beach and had some fun on the bumper cars
and the fun house. My legs are covered
in bruises from the bumper cars, they actually hurt to touch but it was well
worth it. After that we went down to the
beach and there were phosphorescent so the sand was glowing green under our
feet as we walked. It was so cool, I had
never seen it before and was like a kid in a candy store running around and jumping
in the sand to see the pretty green lights.
We all know small things make me happy J
We spent the rest of the evening at the hostel having drinks
and playing pool finishing the night off at around 4am and Ben and I had to be
up the next morning to check out. We were
supposed to go back into Amsterdam for the night and catch a train to Germany
the next day, however, we were having a really great time so we switched
everything around and changed our train to a bus for Thursday afternoon. We didn’t do much that day except relax
which was needed. For dinner Ben and
Ricky cooked up steak, mash potatos and homemade mushroom gravy. Oh my god, yum yum, it was so good. I cant remember the last time I had a
steak, it definitely wasn’t a backpacker
meal. The rest of the night we drank
lots of wine and did quite a few shots and once again closed the bar. I have definitely not gotten an early night
since being in Holland.
The next day – which was our last day – we headed to the
market and got hot dogs and ice cream and went for a walk on the beach – no phosphorescent
though, not during the day.
It
was everyones last night at the hostel so the guys and I cooked our last family
dinner – a huge stirfry that fed six of us – which was so yummy. We had drinks and then went out to one of the
local bars just for a change of scenery of course getting to bed at 4am, again!
Holland
has been an epic 10 days! The people I
have met and the amazing times that I have had, it has been unreal and one of
the best times I have had in all my travels, I really was not expecting to have the time that I have been having,
hence why I skipped my flight on Monday J. It’s really
hard to say good bye to this magical country and of course the three day family
that we had at the beach. It always sucks when you have to say goodbye,
but we are meeting up with Jess and Hayla in Berlin on Saturday. Ricky gets there on Sunday but not sure if we
will get to see him and one of the other guys that was at the hostel is already
there so we will be meeting up with him as well. Ben has decided to change his plans and come
to Berlin with me Friday night which is awesome. We have become awesome travel mates and not
sure what I am going to do when we part ways; it will be a sad day in Europe
when that happens.
Now
Ben and I are on a bus to Cologne (Germany).
The bus is great, free tea and coffee, movies, food, free head phones
all for 15 euros…very exciting J. Super
stoked to get to a new country. I believe
it is going to be an early night tonight, Ben wants some sleep and I could use
some too.
-My Beautiful Life-
