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May 30th 2006
Published: May 30th 2006
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So its been a month since I last wrote here, and the time at home was nice, but randomly somehow I ended up moving again, shock horror! haha, this time I have a partner however, someone I didnt really know until this trip, which is even more random and chaotic. However we happen to get on very well, we are both I think from the school of...... Indecision, which i actually like because im not bossed around and nobody bosses me about! woo!
The flight was really nice, I wasnt scared once , arent I a good boy, I enjoyed seing yorkshire from the sky, it was quite exciting. The only really scary thing on the plane was the fact that a large Rhino was loose in the cargo, this caused quite a panic with rumors flying around the whole plane that he was going to eat everyones ear lobes.

Once landed we got cold, had a smoke, ya know, figuired out a way into the city. Mistake number one, dont come to amsterdam on a saturday night expecting just to waltz up and get a room! Of course it didnt happen, Eventually we were offering some shady turkish man 10 euros to sleep in his bar, to which he showed us a sheet of paper with about 30 other people who were paying him 15 euros to sleep in his bar "you wont fit" was the general message. No trouble no fuss though , if your willing to pay extorinate prices to sleep you can, so we did....... I gotta say, Im more from the school of, ill sleep on a park bench, but I dint think this would go down well with my new freind, then again you never know. Once found, the appartment was horrible but it had a couple of beds so all was well, some turkish guy owned about 15 rooms above a sandwich shop, odd.

Onwards then we marched to go get drunk with two 55 year old newzeland ladies who were travelling off the rent they got from their house (idea for my older years) they were lovely and completley made me smile, what didnt make me smile though was beckys suggestion that in my drunken stupor i went and made love to one of them. Yes it is true the door was open in the morning and the keys were beside me, yet this prooves nothing. ahem

The last couple of days have included the sex musuem, the musuem of torture, the musuem of preserving rhino blood, extensive drinking, smoking, chess playing, monopoly playing, scrabble playing, staring at women sellign their bodies, looking at pretty canals, getting to know a geordie, two americans and a host of other general misfits, especially the americans. DO NOT PLAY MONOPOLY WITH AMERCIANS 😉 We are staying now at a nifty little hostel called bobs, only 20 euros a night (actually i think thats a rip off) but we go to berlin by bus tommorow and the hostel there is 8 euros a night! Game on......excited about germany as ive never been there....... This is more for me than anyone else, but if anyone i know does read, thanks and hope i catch u soon 😊
Sam

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30th May 2006

Haha you are crazy!
Hello Smelly, last time I went on a plane with rhinos they got a better seat than us, how come yours were in the cargo?? And running wild? tsk tsk I need to know nothing else about your 2 friendly 55 year old NZ'ers! You should have written "mother dont read this bit" (but I wouldve done anyway!) Glad you are having a great time - hope you enjoy germany too. Tatta, Muvva Duck.com

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