We spent the day in Amsterdam with Laille. She flies back to London tomorrow morning so is staying the night at a hotel in Amsterdam again. The train into Amsterdam is quite expensive (€15 return) so I think this will possibly be the last time that we go in. We bought a 24 hour ticket for the tram for €7 too, as we thought it would make it a bit easier to get around everything in one day. We dropped Laille's suitcase off at her hotel and then caught the tram to the Heineken Experience. I loved the Heineken Factory! There was a lot about the history of Heineken, but also a lot of hands on activities e.g. you could sample ingredients that go into the beer, have a go at mixing in the brewing room with the giant mixing stick, sample the beer in the tasting session and at the bar and even have a Heineken bottled with your name on it. There was also a 4D experience that gave you an idea of what it feels like to be brewed and bottled. Paul took a video of that. It was really well done. Water was squirted from the ceiling at different parts and there were also bubbles. You could even design your own t-shirts, but we didn't do that. You could easily spent a couple of hours going through the Heineken Experience. I think it took us roughly an hour to an hour and a half. After we had finished at the Heineken Factory we walked down to the markets. The run down the length of a couple of streets and go forever! Laille had a windmill cookie cutter that she had found at a small windmill town on her bus tour. I was hoping I might find one at the markets, but didn't have any luck. The markets were so crowded that we got over it pretty quickly. Not to mention that there were also fish at the markets that smelt horrible! Across the road was McDonalds so we had a quick lunch there before hopping back on the train. It still gets me that you have to pay to use the toilet in McDonalds, even if you have bought a meal. It seems crazy. I guess at least the toilets are always clean though. We took the tram back into central Amsterdam, just down the road from the square. On the way we passed the floating flower markets by the canal. Apparently the bulbs have stickers on them that let you know if you can take them into your own country. I would have liked to have taken some tulip bulbs back, but we didn't really have time to stop there and the chances are I wouldn't get them through NZ customs anyway. I took Laille down a couple of the main shopping streets and we had a look around. Then we headed towards the post office to post Laille's postcards and pick up a box for us. It was 5.35pm now though and the post office had shut at 5.00pm. We carried on towards Anne Frank's house. The lines were huge so we walked around the front and took some photos of the building from outside. I really would have liked to have gone inside, but we were all shattered and Paul and I still had an hour trip back to his aunty and uncle's house. We stopped at a shop on the way back and then walked up to the central station. Laille was able to catch a tram back to her hotel from here so we said goodbye. It wasn't as hard saying goodbye this time as she is coming over to NZ in a few months, at Christmas time. Once we had said goodbye we caught our train back to Amersfoot. We decided to have a quick dinner at the train station as it was after 8pm. We went to Paul's favourite place again - Smullers. It's basically just deep fried Dutch food e.g. different sausages, fries, croquet etc. After our snack we jumped on the bus. Once we arrived at the bus stop we walked back to Heidi's house. It was almost 9pm by the time we walked in the door. We were really tired and so crashed out not long after we got home.