Amsterdam 7/8

Budapest to Amsterdam 7/8 - Corner Hotel

I woke up and packed my stuff, Ryan met me at 10am after he checked out of his ghetto-like hot box, we then decided to have a dip in the thermal Baths near the river before flying out. 

The sun was booming, yet another perfect day, so we laid by the pools and soaked up the warm water ranging from 28 to 45 degrees. I followed Ryan to what was probably the hottest sauna on earth and sweated it out in there for 5 minutes at a time, then diving into what felt like an ice bath of 4 degrees.

I lost Ryan and decided to get a massage for the remaining hour, which was awkward when she said to take my shorts off, as they were all I was wearing. So I stripped down and laid on the floor with the small towel they had provided.
I managed to catch up on some sleep and leave a drool patch on the pillow, but the low lighting, peaceful music did the trick. I woke up feeling fresh and rejuvenated, something I hadn't felt since leaving home.

I couldn't find Ryan anywhere, our flight was getting closer, so I taxi'd back to the hostel hoping he had done the same.

Thankfully he had, and was waiting for me in the common area, so we grabbed our bags and taxi'd to the Airport. 

Check-in was easy enough but customs was slow and I forgot to take my pocket knife out of my bag. So regrettably I had to forfeit that and some sunscreen.

A dodgy 2 hour Wizz Air flight later we arrived in Eindhosen, which was unfortunately rainy.

We then caught a bus to the main station and paid 32euro for a train to Amsterdam. About 20minutes in Ryan then realised he had lost his iPhone 5 and proceeded to freak out, and checked every pocket of his 300pocket backpack with no success.

When we arrived in Amsterdam, having no accommodation we soon found that every hotel was booked or ridiculously pricey, but luckily we found one called the Corner House hotel, a cute bar, restaurant with rooms upstairs accessible via stairs cases that only mountain climbers could scale.

We freshened up and met Ryan's mates Benny and Jay. Had a few beers and were attacked by 3 drunk UK girls, two were Frankston-likes and one, Gemma, traveling by herself on Contiki. We bailed on girls and then found ourselves in the red light district and saw a live sex show, which was way too choreographed to techno music to take seriously.

Amsterdam 8/8 - Corner Hotel

In the morning we had to change rooms as we had only booked one night, and seemingly got a free upgrade which was a great win. After the icnluded breakfast we hired bikes, rode to the Rijkmuseum, IAMSTERDAM sign, then to Vondelpark, and reserved a night in cheaper hostel.

We bought some food from the supermarket and had lunch by one of the small lakes, where we met an Asian dude who gave us some magic Truffles. Ryan bought a near new iPhone 5 from some dodgy man at a small phone shop, and then I nearly crapped myself probably due to the truffle or two that I foolishly consumed. We rode back to hotel, got ready and went to meet Benny at the square. Had tapas in the red light district, and more beers in Leidseplein square. We randomly found a pub crawl and tacked onto that and met up with UK girls.

Amsterdam 9/8 - Corner hotel

Ryan didn't come home, and I couldn't contact him.  So at 10am I half packed everything, had breakkie without him only for him to show up hungover and with no sleep. We returned the bikes and booked another night in the hotel. 

Ryan slept, I went out and found a coffee shop and bought a brownie. Ate it straight away and bought some chocolates, walked for 25mins to Vondelpark and laid down on the grass next to a lake. 45mins passes and I felt a little heavy, 1hr went past and I could make shapes and things out of the clouds, I devoured all my snacks and a hotdog and felt really heavy.

Eventually got up and walked back, but found a pancake parlour. I went with a big Nutella banana pancake, and pike-lets with strawberry and ice-creams. So much food, so much amazing!

I walked back to the hotel content and sleepy, so I slept it off, but then went back out with Ryan, went to the same Coffee shop were we bought a coffee and an Amnesia haze each. We got pretty high, as I have a weak tolerance to it, then walked around until we found a KFC where I ate and entirely family meal worth of chicken chips and gravy.