Hallo Amsterdam

My friend Ellie (who now has a blip here: Eleanor) and I sailed our way in to Amsterdam for a few days. The ferry took ages, but there was enough novelty - especially in going to the cinema at 9.30am- for the time to pass fairly quickly. We were greeted in Holland by Caryn Franklin from the Clothes Show in the passport queue ahead of us. We managed to find a couple of really slow trains to take us in to Amsterdam, but it was really nice watching the fields of tulips and windmills pass by the window. Finally, we arrived at our lovely hotel early evening and were greeted by this view from our window. We stayed in the beautiful Jordaan area, and spent the evening wandering along 'our' canal, finding pizza for dinner and topping the day off with a few beers sitting alongside the canal.