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Published: August 2nd 2009
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Nursing a slight headache from the one or two dry sherries enjoyed the night before, Conor and i (well, i would be more accurate) wake up and decide to take the free breakfast that the shitty hotel is offering. So we leave our hotel and walk over to the sister shitty hotel in which we had to check in the night before (needlessly complicated). A yummy feast of toast and jam ensued.
We then went back to the room and packed all our stuff, so that we could get the hell out of the place. Pronto.
We grabbed all our bags and dropped them off in the lockers in the central station, with the intention of going back and grabbing them when we were going to the new hotel. We walked outside and it took us about 1.5 minutes to realise we were both wrecked and exhausted, so we decided to go on the nearest amenity to us; the canal boats. I literally do not remember most of the trip because i was in total zombie mode. But what i do remember was lovely.
After that we went looking for food (we were in KFC and i decided
i wasnt in the mood for KFC *shock*) but ended up not eating anything at all. We shuffled zombie-like back to the central station and got the bags. After locating our train, sitting beside it and still managing to almost miss it (doesnt bode well for the rest of the trip considering our main form of transport is trains) we got to the new hotel.
AH the new hotel. How i loves it. It looks good from the outside, the lobby looks good (very funky), the lifts look good (nice and functional buttons), the checkin desks are all computerized (very nifty), the room is, in a word, awesome. Again everything is computerised and controlled with a portable control panel about the size of my phone. The shower is an enclosed alcove of glass with one of those showers that is directly above and is, surprisingly, awesome. :-)
Basically we vegged out in each of our rooms for far longer than we planned, due half to us being exhausted, and half due to the room being awesome. We then used the free WiFi to find an organised pub crawl thingy. We got the info and set off with a
view to finally figuring out the tram system. Which we kind of did....we got on and got to where we wanted, but did not figure out how to pay. Woops.
We found the place where the pub crawl began and went to the steak house next to it for some food (steaks). It was not well done, i can tell you that much. And dutch restaurants have this scam where if you order two plates of chips, they put it all on one plate, but in doing so, give you less. Cowboys.
We joined the pub crawl and this is where my memory gets hazy. I was drinking the free beers we were being given and then Vodka Red Bull when there were no free beers. We went to 5 pubs im told, but i only remember 2. Had a good laugh and by the end of the night id say everyone on the crawl knew who 'those two Irish lads' were. Hmmmm....what else do i remember. Oh someone accidentally pushed over a motorcycle (not us). The police came. They are not nearly as friendly as Irelands finest. Before i got a taxi home i almost ended up
falling asleep on a boat and being accidentally taken to the north of the city. But i didnt.
Got back to the awesome room and after a few prompt drunk calls and texts, i fell asleep in my awesome bed. Awesome.
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petermonaghan
Peter Monaghan
Ratings
Missing home rating (from 0-10): 4 Mysterious liver pain rating (from 0-10): 7 General state of merryment in group (from 0-10): 4 (hangover may be affecting this)