{"id":20,"date":"2011-04-18T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.epicmac.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2014-06-15T17:14:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T07:14:59","slug":"euro-day-6-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.epicmac.com\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Euro Day 6 – Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I got up nice and early and set out on the hunt for breakfast and coffee. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Well, it looks like the population of Amsterdam had a good night. Quite the mess. The cleaners were hard at work cleaning the roads and footpaths.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I wandered past the doors of doom. One of the residents opened her door and asked if I wanted a cookie. I declined politely. She said she didn\u2019t like that sort. I smiled and kept walking. I found a nice caf\u00e9 where I had scrambled eggs with toast, ham & cheese for breakfast. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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After that I walked down past the central railway station and browsed a few of the souvenir shops. I came across the Amsterdam Madame Tossauds. The queue to get in was quite long, so I kept walking. I found a square that appeared to be the movie murderers buskers spot. <\/span><\/div>\n

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There were a number of \u2018Death\u2019s\u2019 and some guy with scissor hands. Quite odd. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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Shortly thereafter Doug made contact as they\u2019d had to check out of their rooms. I made my way back so they could put their bags into my room. We walked to Rembrandts house, where Chris and Peter went in for a look around and the rest of us had a coffee\/tea whilst we waited. I then managed to convince them we should walk to the Van Gogh museum. On the way we past the Richts museum.<\/span><\/div>\n

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That place had a massive queue to get it. Aaha! We thought, we\u2019ll keep heading to the Van Gogh museum. Oh dear, It also had a scary queue.  So we gave up, found a caf\u00e9\/pub and had a bit of a rest\/beer\/snack. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Peter and Chris decided to go and see some football stadium somewhere and John wanted to find somewhere to watch another football game that was on. So Doug and I chilled beside a canal and read our books.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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Eventually they all returned. They grabbed their bags and headed for the airport. I set off to hunt down a couple of geocaches and <\/span>get some washing done, YAY clean clothes FTW!<\/span> <\/span>. Unfortunately the areas were very busy with people pretty much sitting on the cache locations. A quick dinner and a few dusk shots of a canal (30secs @ F30 with ISO 200), a tripod would have been handy.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Now to prepare\/pack for tomorrows drive back into Germany. Hopefully I can find the car.  <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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