PAUL We got up early on our second day in Amsterdam (5 June) and made our way over to the Anne Frank House. We were really impressed with the way the whole thing was presented with a mix of Anne's diary entries written on the walls and video recordings from the people involved as you moved through the house and up to the annex. Then we went for a wander through city centre again and discovered some other areas we hadn't seen. We also managed to end up on a sho...

PAUL We arrived in Amsterdam last night (June 3) flowing a quick flights from Leeds Bradford Airport. After breezing through customs and finding, to our slight surprise, that all the signs and announcements here are in both Dutch and English, we made our way outside and caught a tram headed for our accommodation. First lesson learnt: hang on when the tram takes off. These things are like roller coaster ride and we both nearly fell off our seats when the tram fir...