We got up and walked down to the Mikes Bikes Tours office, where we booked our tour for the next day, before walking down to Dam Square in the city centre. We joined the free walking tour there, where our guide Lee greeted us and gave us a quick introduction to the city and its history. One of my favourite quotes of the day was when she told us 'God created the world, but the Dutch created the Netherlands'. That was pretty cool. She told us how a lot of the count...

We woke up this morning and went for a walk down to the Leidseplein to find some lunch. I was looking for sushi, but they weren't open yet, so we kept walking around, and stopped at a place with a guy out the front who convinced us with his specials! It was like a mexican/steak house, and the boys ordered steak and I got fajitas. We had a good chat to the guy there, Eddie, as well as one of the other workers, who had a lot to say about politics, and Amsterdam in ...

We woke up very early this morning, packed and checked out, and walked down to the bus stop. We were catching the bus back to the bus station, but missed the stop because he stopped on the opposite side to yesterday so I didn't recognize it! So I pressed the buzzer to get off at the next one, and when he stopped at a light, I asked if we could jump off there! He looked a little confused, but understood me after a bit and opened the doors for us! He must have real...

This morning we got up, packed and cleaned up the apartment. There's a 500 kroner (~$100) fee for if you don't clean up after yourself, so we did that, then chilled out for a while. We left our bags at reception then walked down to the supermarket to return our empty beer bottles. They give you one kroner back per bottle if you return them for recycling which is pretty awesome. Then we realized we'd left our breakfast (apples) in the fridge at the apartment, so w...

We woke up this morning and went for a walk down to the tourist information centre, where we got some information on how to catch a bus to see the Voringsfossen waterfall. Once we worked out a game plan, we went to the supermarket for apples, then went for a walk around the Hæreid area, which is about a 90minute round trip that takes you past Viking and Iron Age burial mounds. As we walked up along the river, it was a very scenic walk, and there was a cool s...