Amsterdam, take three - Booked!

Aaaahhh!

I am so excited! 

Anna and I have finally booked our trip to Amsterdam, and we are so proud of how much we saved on it!

It's booked for early June for five nights, because it was so affordable for us, and so much cheaper than we expected. 

We decided to rent a room outside the centre a little bit, and we'll be staying at a BnB with a lovely couple, who have promised to show us around and help us out when we get there.

The room was super cheap and had everything we could possibly need, the couple seem really friendly and sweet and we are hoping they don't turn out to be psycho murderers - just kidding! 

(No, seriously.)

The place is called Uithoorn , which is 30 mins outside the centre by car and 40 to 50 mins by bus or train. It's next to a river and there are plenty of cute little roads to go biking, which we plan to do after I teach Anna how to ride a bike!

The couple we are staying with offered to help us with travel by lending us their train/tram and bus cards, which are like Oyster cards in the UK, so travelling around will be easy, hopefully.

Other than that our plans are the same, plenty of museum, lots of vintage shopping and sight seeing!

Until June for more my lovelies!

Amsterdam, take two

Project Amsterdam is still a go!

We decided on a compromise and to go for a weekend, or three days, instead of the original five days we wanted.
I'm hoping that we can afford that better than five days cause that can be expensive when you have no actual steady income.
Other than a basic plan of what might happen, our plans are still not quite solid, and I'm the kind of person who likes to make lists and plans, down to the smallest of details.
The only travel plans that are definitely happening are my plans to go to London in May for my exams and to see family and friends.

The to-do list for Amsterdam:

. The Anne Frank House
. The Rijksmuseum
. The Van Gogh Museum
. Rent a Bike and ride around Amsterdam
. Visit Vondelpark
. Visit the flower market (Bloemen markt)
. Visit The Hortus Botanicus
. Try some street foods (Raw Herring, yum?)
. Vintage Clothes Shopping

 Our trip is going to be mostly museums and artsy, and we've decided on early June so I don't have any clashes with my exams.
We might end up going somewhere in England too, a bit closer to home. Maybe visit some places we want to live when we move in together.

Until next time!

Amsterdam

The other day Anna and I spent three/four hours making plans to go to Amsterdam this spring/summer. the only problem is that I still haven't moved back to the UK so I'm not working and bringing in my own money, I'm planning on getting a job when I go back to London this summer, but other than that I have to rely on my mum and my aunt. my mum gave her blessings for us to go but she said that she wouldn't be funding me, which means no real guarantee that I will have money to go on this trip.
That put an end to the planning.
Now, this doesn't mean that we still don't have plans to go because we kind of do, but at the same time we aren't getting out hopes up that we will.
We're just going to wait and see what happens when I get there in May.
I'm hoping that I can save up enough somehow so we can go on a 5 day/4 night trip and still have money to enjoy the great things that can be found in Amsterdam.
Mainly, I really want to go to the Rijksmuseum and vintage clothes shopping; I've read that its a marvellous place for vintage clothes.

This my friends, is classic me.

I still have a road map somewhere for my "Road Trip Through Italy" so.

I haven't a clue how I'm going to find the money for this trip but I feel like me and Anna really do need a real vacation somewhere we both can have a great time, and Amsterdam, despite what its perceived as by the "youth", is a great place for more than just getting high or drunk or whatever.