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We had a lame hostel breakfast (they put sprinkles on their toast) and then we took a train to Haarlem, Netherlands. We got off at Haarlem Centraal Station and waited at a quaint tea house for the bus to take us into another part of town. Once we got off the bus it was a couple miles more of walking with luggage. After checking-in, we rent bikes and take them into yet another town. We stop at the grocery store to get lunch to bring with us on our journey to the ...

This is our last day in Amsterdam. The previous day, we realized we had only booked 3 nights in Amsterdam, when we really should have booked 5 to catch the bus back. So we decided to go up north and stay in two different towns on the North Sea. We got up early enough to get breakfast before our train left. I got a traditional Dutch meal, pancakes and beer! We caught a train up north and from there we took a bus to Egmond, Netherlands. It was a really nice day and...

Wake and bake and then into town again. We got food at a cute, little, privately owned place on our way to the Heineken Brewery. We met some guys from Australia and agreed to meet up with them when we went out later. The brewery was decent. The tour part had it's ups and downs but the beer was unparalleled. It's so much better there! We sat at the table closest to the exit at the second/last bar of the tour. Little did we know, we had picked the best table in the...

Woke up. Went into town and each bought a fresh pack of 'shrooms. We ate them with a baguette b/c we aren't used to non-dried out 'shrooms. Then we took a nice stroll to the Artis Zoo. This was probably the best place for us to have gone. The zoo is beautiful either way but this made it 30 times better. We got there during feeding time and went straight for the big cats, after being freaked out by the primates and how human-like they are. We wandered the zoo for ...