A short history lesson: Many people think that Fair Trade Coffee/Tea only recently came into light after human rights protests became more common. But it was really a guy from Netherlands close to 200 years ago that started it off. Eduard Douwes Dekker, better known by his pen name Multatuli, wrote a book in the 1800's called Max Havelaar. This book was a protest against the abuse of free labour he saw in Java by the Dutch East Indies Company and the colonial sy...

Took an easy day today... Slept in and then went out and looked around a market then realised I can't really buy anything so left. Amsterdam is an expensive place btw! And I'm not being cheap or anything, but its almost just as bad as Paris. Went to the Floating Flower Market and Torture Museum which was interesting but a bit of a waste of money. They had contraptions from hundreds of years ago and used them to get confessions out of people who they thought had...

Had an early start this morning and went to the Anne Frank Huis first. I love this place with all the history and suffering that happened here. I read Anne Franks diary when I was about 10 and to imagine the scenes while you're reading, is different to actually seeing and being in the house itself. The place had a museum as well as the house itself and the museum part was nice as it had some items that were in the house, paperwork and videos from the people who...

Woke up 20 minutes before breakfast finished today, but boy was the breakfast good. (Pretty sad the things I get excited about these days). Toast, Cheese (not the crappy ones that come in plastic wrap but nice ones that came sliced off a big block), ham, salami, pastrami... Best hostel ever. Walked from the hostel to Rjiksmuseum. Actually wanted to go to the Heineken Experience first but its closed! They are apparently renovating to make it better. Apparently yo...

Spent the last morning in Bruges buying chocolate and just walking through the streets doing a bit of window shopping. Got a bit lost on my way back to the hostel, but luckily bumped into some friends who are on busabout too. Left Bruges this afternoon at 1pm to go to Amsterdam. I LOVE Amsterdam! Not because of the reasons you may think, but because the weather and hostel are both really really good haha. After the crap hostel in Bruges this one is like a 5 star...