After spending 3 days in Amsterdam to recover from our flight over from Australia and aclimatise to European conditions, it was time to begin our journey by train. We spent our last day in Amsterdam doing a test train trip going to the nearby beach at Zandvoort an Nee, where it was a bit cold for a swim. The trains in the Netherlands are easy to use with a mixture of double deck and single deck sets. You can simply jump on without having to reserve a seat. Rather than go straight to Rotterdam we decided to stop off at Den [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Amsterdam at 7:30 in the morning on Friday 20th July after having spent the entire night on the plane. We found our way out to the place we were staying on tram #9 and after a quick shower we headed back into town to checkout the sites. One of the first things we (or should we say Ross) noticed in Amsterdam is that they have Combino trams, same as the 5 section ones in Melbourne. The only difference is that the trams here only have doors on one side so that they can fit in more seats. [View Full Entry]

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Well after a long wait we are finally down to 1 week before heading off for our 3 month trip of Europe! First stop is Amsterdam, last stop is London - we cover 26 countries in between. We'll try to keep this up to date as much as we can during our travels to keep our friends and families informed of what we're doing. Given that we're trying to pack as much as we can into our trip, I don't know much time we'll have to spend on it - we'll just see how we go. Happy Travelling - we're off [View Full Entry]

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