Amsterdam

After yesterday’s antics with trying to make it onto the ferry, The Tartan Eagles have made it to Amsterdam safe and sound…despite travelling by boat on the 98th anniversary of Titanic’s maiden and only voyage. We found our petrol cans waiting for us beside Maxi in the morning and no more petrol appeared to have leaked out overnight.

Step one after getting off the boat was to find our way to the apartment of our Dutch friends. Unfortunately our GPS had other ideas and when the irritating English woman said ‘You have now arrived at your destination’(which was meant to be Amsterdam city centre!) she was clearly playing some kind of trick on us. We were in fact in the middle of nowhere next to a farm house and lots of swans! We then rebooted the GPS and tried again…thankfully this time with more precise results.

We spent a lovely day in Amsterdam with our awesome Dutch friends and their beautiful baby girl, Jasperine. We strolled around picturesque Amsterdam, sat in a few trendy coffee shops to watch the world cycle by and enjoyed a fantastic gluten free home cooked lunch and dinner! Laura even managed to squeeze in a relaxing run around sunny Vondelpark

Our friends kindly suggested we stay at their apartment for the night so we used the Icelandic eruption as an excuse for cancelling our night at the hostel.
Good night from the Tartan Eagles…tomorrow we have an early start before a 10 hour drive to Copenhagen!