Day 1 - London to Amsterdam, Netherlands
Early shenanigans and silliness
London was still sleeping but the Contiki group were all preparing for the tour of their lives at 5am. We made our way via tube to the Royal Contiki Hotel, where we had our bags weighed and then hoped on the bus.
The back seat was chosen as our preferred seating and we all crammed in there and the tour bus headed to Dover with the music blaring. The trip to Dover was pretty cool and the atmosphere in the bus was buzzing, there was alot of introductions to be had. At the entrace to the ferry we had to go through a border to France, the border guards all spoke in French and we greeted them with an enthustic 'Bonjour', that way they gave us speedy entry to the Ferry.
Once on the ferry we quickly grabbed a bar seat and had our first beer, well Cap'ns Morgan and Jack Sparrow did, Cap'ns Barboasa and Hook were saving their constitution for a later time. We bid farewell to Great Britan and the Dover hills. We were glad to see the end to the grey wet weather and were hoping for some good weather through Europe.
The tour bus drove for three hours through France, Belguim and arrived in the Netherlands and then we found ourselves at our first hotel, Slotmania aka Slutmania. There was a big mixup with the rooms and their locations but after a short time the Cap'ns found they had 2 rooms with 3 single beds each... they wern't that great however we were on Contiki and were happy with any room at that point.
That night we walked through town and headed to the Grasshoper it was recommended by one of our friends, however it was 40 Euro's for four JD's and coke, what a ripper!! After consuming our very expensive drinks we decided that the local supermarket would provide cheaper drinks which we could consume while viewing the city sites.
The night life in Amsterdam was very entertaining, however it was Amsterdam and this my friend is the Internet, if you want to know more you'll have to ask in person about the nightlife. Though I can say we were drug free, they were left to the locals.
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3 comments:
And from Amsterdam you went where????
Surely Morgan, Sparrow, Hook and Barbarossa had more drug free times?
Saw the photo's, it looks like super duper fun had by all. You are probably still asleep and getting over it all.
You'll have to wait for the next instalment. We've got notes on each day but they're to much to put up in one go :)
And yes we're still sleeping.
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