Me and 5 friends from uni went to Amsterdam on the 17th March - 21st. We stayed in the stayokay hostel in zeeburg, it was a bit out of town but was clean, affordable and the tram stop to dam square was bout 50m away. We spent the week going to the zoo, madam tussauds, red light district, coffeeshops and just generally walking about the city! Amsterdam is so different, everyone is laid back but the bicycles are crazy!!!!! We tried some hash in the coffeeshops (none of us smoke it back home but we had to take in the culture you see ;) The weather was all over the place! we had snow, hailstones (sore!!!) , thunder and lightning, random spells of sunshine and rain!!!
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