Amsterdam with P, K, B and C Jakob! Oranjeboom! Clogg! Dyke! Windmill! After a flippen early start on Saturday morning, Cyn and I taxied out of Heathrow to meet P and K in Amsterdam for a little long weekend break! The flight was a mere 45 minutes and the we landed at Schipol, which I later found out to be 4 meters below sea level! These Dutchmen and their dykes! After waffling through a train ticket machine and trying to decipher some Dutch, which is rather similar to Afrikaans, we boarded the train to Centraal Station, Amsterdam. P and K met us outside and we proceeded to our hotel, which was near the Zoo. A good land mark especally if you get lost, which of course we never did! Cyn and I quickly learnt that Tram
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