We arrived into Amsterdam Centraal station yesterday at quarter to three on a sunny afternoon. We went to the international ticket poart of the station to ask whether we needed any reservations to go to Oldenburg. We took a ticket and waited for our number to be called, much like in a shoe-shop or Argos. There were lots of people sat around with rucksacks waiting and watching on woman in particular who apparently needed a 15 minute break for every 15 minutes she worked. After an hour of waiting we got to a desk and the woman told us to take a different route out of Amsterdam - it turned out the train we wanted wasn't running on Sunday. We then headed out to find the hotel. Leaving the station we immediately saw a multi-storey car park - for bikes. Hundreds and hundreds of bikes were parked everywhere! We managed to avoid being hit by trams, bikes, cars and buses and got to the hotel. We got our key to room 19 on the fifth floor and decided that we should be on the first floor by Rome.
We walked to Dam Square and saw the impressive Royal Palace completely covered in scaffolding. There were, however, lots of people around and a 5-a-side football pitch set up for a Homeless Cup. We wandered around and had some pizza before heading back to our hotel.
Stride like the rooster!
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