DAY 28: it's our final day of the Grand European 28 day tour! We bid farewell to Amsterdam at 7:30am and headed for Brugge, Belgium for a short lunch stop and to buy Belgium chocolates of course! Visited the Brugge town square and got the famously delicious Leonidas chocolates...(they were fantastic) and yummy Belgian chocolate waffles before jumping on the bus again at 12:30...headed for the ferry port at Calais. For once, Andie was wishing for the bus ride to ...

DAY 27: our second last day of the tour! ... We had a free day to explore Amsterdam and it started with a guided bike tour at 11:30. Of course, our experience is not complete without a but of a mini-disaster occurring... After riding to the "I Amsterdam" sculpture and through Vondel Park (to which I narrowly missed colliding with an oncoming tram I didn't see)...8 of us got separated from the rest of the pack after a tram blocked our view of the tour guide. After...

DAY 26: We depart for Amsterdam today! Would've loved to stay in Berlin for an extra few days though... It emits such a youthful and hip vibe with fantastic shopping, eateries and such a varied history and culture. I'm glad me and Andie will be returning here again in August. 7:30am departures are always tough and we spend another full day driving today, which I've surprisingly gotten used to and actually not mind sitting in the same position all day. We stop o...

DAY 25: we started off our day in Berlin with a Third Reicht walking tour with our local guide, Carlos at 9am. Carlos was half German, half Spanish who had a great sense of humour, in a geeky and quirky way. He explained the entire history of the reasons abd causes of the uprising of the Third Reicht (Adolf Hitler's Nationalist Socialist regime during the period 1933 to 1945), visiting key historic sites such as: Berlin 1) Reichstag: National Parliament House....

DAY 24: 8:30 am departure for Berlin, Dresden enroute. Dresden was a very beautiful city, famous as a victim of WW2 fire bombings. Alot of the buildings were restored extensively after WW2 although they had their UNESCO world heritage site removed as they built some bridge. It was only a quick 2 hour stop in Dresden for a quick walking tour and a lunch...then on the bus again for Berlin!! We arrived in Berlin to the Wombats Hostel at 5:30pm after our driving to...