On the bus at a reasonably civilized 8.00pm we travelled all day through France, Belgium (lunch stop in the gorgeous Brugge) and the Netherlands arriving in Amsterdam around 5.00pm. With Busabout we have a tour guide who tells us a little about the place we are arriving for example where to find cheap places to eat, how to use public transport, what sights are the best to see in a short time frame etc.We spent 3 days in Amsterdam in 1999 so this time we endeavor...

Finally at about 8pm we arrived in Amsterdam. We were taken as close as possible to our hostel but had to walk a km or so, we opted to wheel our backpacks and they were quite noisy bouncing over the cobble stones. Our hostel was the Hans Brinker and talk about a baptism of fire, our first night out and we were allocated a four bed dorm. We rocked up to our room to find the four beds were in fact two double bunks crammed into a tiny room, to make matters worse tw...