Hallo (hello)!
Facts about Amsterdam:
1. Amsterdam is one of the capitals with most museums in the world
2. Amsterdam has more canals than venice
3. Amsterdam has more bike than it's population
4. Amsterdam is well below sea level and at the lowest point of Amsterdam it is 6.7 meters below sea level
Day 1(22nd April 2011)
This time we toured with Kishor and Chethan families, nice to have big group. We travelled in Eurostar till Brussels from Kings Cross and took another train from Brussels to Amsterdam Central. Reached Amsterdam at around 2:00PM. Had our lunch in the Amsterdam Central station and then bought group cruise ticket for the evening. With the plan set for rest of the day, reached our Hotel Arena via the Indian themed tube. Tube was very nice and neatly maintained. Checked in to our hotel, took some rest with beers. And then all decked up fro evening Amsterdam Cruise trip. Enjoyed the cruise trip for 1 hour and entire Cruise was ours. The driver was kind enough for us to explain many areas and also he took us for extra 15 minutes ride.
Finished our dinner in KS Indian Restaurant which was at Red Light District. You know, Amsterdam is famous for Coffee Shop! Tourists never return without visiting the Coffee Shop and of course even our group will not return without visiting it. Btw, if you didn't know Coffee shop in Netherlands sell Drugs. Girls in our group (except me!) wanted to taste Cake and guys wanted to have cigarette. After purchasing from Coffee shop, spent some time around red light area. Red light district had loads of sex shows, people were simply dragging all tourists. Even our group finally decided to see a show as it was going to be first show for all of us. Entered a theatre and watched a show. Satty had an amazing touch to his specs from one of the pros'. To be very honest, I wanted to see such a show once but after I saw this, I decided I will never go to watch it again in my life time!. Reached our hotel at 11:00PM. Guys and girls enjoyed the purchase of Coffee shop before finishing off the day.
Day 2 (23rd April 2011)
This was the day dedicated to enjoy Tulip Gardens at Keukenhof. Left hotel at around 10:00AM. This was the hotel without the breakfast. So, we had to come out of the hotel everyday to have some breakfast. Had our breakfast in Amsterdam Central Station and then travelled to Amsterdam Airport via a train. Took bus to reach Keukenhof tulip garden. Enjoyed a beautiful Tulip garden. Our group photographers enjoyed clicking many photos. We girls posed happily for them with Tulips around us.
After a great day in the Tulip garden back to our hotel at around 9:00PM. Played cards for a while and then went to bed
Day 3 (24th April 2011)
We had booked bus tour to visit Windmills. This is the first trip where we decided to taked to bus tour. As bus tour was supposed to start at around 8:00AM, we left the hotel quite early, packed up some breakfast to eat during our bus journey. Reached Windmill at around 9:00AM, they guide in the tour explained us about the area and also we visited a cheese factory nearby.
We were all asked to be near the bus at 10:30AM to go to another place. After relaxing some time near the old mill, we rushed towards the bus otherwise we knew they will not wait for us. Unfortunately, Hebbar and Pooja, didn't make it on time. We insisted tour organizer to wait for some time for Hebbar and Pooja's arrival. Thought bus driver waited for 5-10 minutes, these couples didn't make even in that time. You know all these people are very good timekeeper unlike us(!), driver just moved the pass. Our next sightseeing was a beautiful fishing village and wooden shoe factory So, bus headed towards that place. We (Satty, Kishor, Swathi and Me) were very disappointed that Chetan and Pooja are not with us and we were just discussing about them. We didn't have any means of contacting them as phones were not working. Bus took us to beautifully fishing village and but we were hoping that Pooja and Hebbar can join us somehow. Luckily, after some time when we were roaming around the fishing village, we saw them there. They caught next bus from the same company came there. Group re-united!
After this we visited Wooden shoe factory and then bus took us back to original place - Amsterdam Central station. After having lunch in an Italian Restaurant, we took another hop-on hop-off bus tour. Through which we visited diamond shop (without any purchase) and then visited Heineken brewing factory. After tasting beer in the brewing factory, we came back near Amsterdam canal. Sat near the canal for sometime and took some ride in the tram. Reached hotel after having dinner near teh train station. Enjoyed for a while with good talks and games
Day 4 (25th April 2011)
We were hoping to visit Brussel's grand square on the way back to London. Unfortunately there wasn't direct train from Amsterdam to Brussels on that train. So, we had to travel to another station and from their we had to travel to Brussels which took longer time. Had lunch in Brussels and then took Eurostar train back to London Kings Cross.
Doei!
Facts about Amsterdam:
1. Amsterdam is one of the capitals with most museums in the world
2. Amsterdam has more canals than venice
3. Amsterdam has more bike than it's population
4. Amsterdam is well below sea level and at the lowest point of Amsterdam it is 6.7 meters below sea level
Day 1(22nd April 2011)
This time we toured with Kishor and Chethan families, nice to have big group. We travelled in Eurostar till Brussels from Kings Cross and took another train from Brussels to Amsterdam Central. Reached Amsterdam at around 2:00PM. Had our lunch in the Amsterdam Central station and then bought group cruise ticket for the evening. With the plan set for rest of the day, reached our Hotel Arena via the Indian themed tube. Tube was very nice and neatly maintained. Checked in to our hotel, took some rest with beers. And then all decked up fro evening Amsterdam Cruise trip. Enjoyed the cruise trip for 1 hour and entire Cruise was ours. The driver was kind enough for us to explain many areas and also he took us for extra 15 minutes ride.
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| Amsterdam Canals |
Finished our dinner in KS Indian Restaurant which was at Red Light District. You know, Amsterdam is famous for Coffee Shop! Tourists never return without visiting the Coffee Shop and of course even our group will not return without visiting it. Btw, if you didn't know Coffee shop in Netherlands sell Drugs. Girls in our group (except me!) wanted to taste Cake and guys wanted to have cigarette. After purchasing from Coffee shop, spent some time around red light area. Red light district had loads of sex shows, people were simply dragging all tourists. Even our group finally decided to see a show as it was going to be first show for all of us. Entered a theatre and watched a show. Satty had an amazing touch to his specs from one of the pros'. To be very honest, I wanted to see such a show once but after I saw this, I decided I will never go to watch it again in my life time!. Reached our hotel at 11:00PM. Guys and girls enjoyed the purchase of Coffee shop before finishing off the day.
Day 2 (23rd April 2011)
This was the day dedicated to enjoy Tulip Gardens at Keukenhof. Left hotel at around 10:00AM. This was the hotel without the breakfast. So, we had to come out of the hotel everyday to have some breakfast. Had our breakfast in Amsterdam Central Station and then travelled to Amsterdam Airport via a train. Took bus to reach Keukenhof tulip garden. Enjoyed a beautiful Tulip garden. Our group photographers enjoyed clicking many photos. We girls posed happily for them with Tulips around us.
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| Tulips |
After a great day in the Tulip garden back to our hotel at around 9:00PM. Played cards for a while and then went to bed
Day 3 (24th April 2011)
We had booked bus tour to visit Windmills. This is the first trip where we decided to taked to bus tour. As bus tour was supposed to start at around 8:00AM, we left the hotel quite early, packed up some breakfast to eat during our bus journey. Reached Windmill at around 9:00AM, they guide in the tour explained us about the area and also we visited a cheese factory nearby.
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| Windmill Village |
We were all asked to be near the bus at 10:30AM to go to another place. After relaxing some time near the old mill, we rushed towards the bus otherwise we knew they will not wait for us. Unfortunately, Hebbar and Pooja, didn't make it on time. We insisted tour organizer to wait for some time for Hebbar and Pooja's arrival. Thought bus driver waited for 5-10 minutes, these couples didn't make even in that time. You know all these people are very good timekeeper unlike us(!), driver just moved the pass. Our next sightseeing was a beautiful fishing village and wooden shoe factory So, bus headed towards that place. We (Satty, Kishor, Swathi and Me) were very disappointed that Chetan and Pooja are not with us and we were just discussing about them. We didn't have any means of contacting them as phones were not working. Bus took us to beautifully fishing village and but we were hoping that Pooja and Hebbar can join us somehow. Luckily, after some time when we were roaming around the fishing village, we saw them there. They caught next bus from the same company came there. Group re-united!
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| Fishing Village |
After this we visited Wooden shoe factory and then bus took us back to original place - Amsterdam Central station. After having lunch in an Italian Restaurant, we took another hop-on hop-off bus tour. Through which we visited diamond shop (without any purchase) and then visited Heineken brewing factory. After tasting beer in the brewing factory, we came back near Amsterdam canal. Sat near the canal for sometime and took some ride in the tram. Reached hotel after having dinner near teh train station. Enjoyed for a while with good talks and games
Day 4 (25th April 2011)
We were hoping to visit Brussel's grand square on the way back to London. Unfortunately there wasn't direct train from Amsterdam to Brussels on that train. So, we had to travel to another station and from their we had to travel to Brussels which took longer time. Had lunch in Brussels and then took Eurostar train back to London Kings Cross.
Doei!
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