Amsterdam Day 1 – Camping Zeeburg & Anne Frank’s House

First views of Amsterdam
At Central Station which was where the train arrives from Schipol Airport
Tickets were 3.80 Euros one-way

I cut my hair 2 weeks ago.. but nothing new.

With my fantastic travel-buddy, Rosanne!
Who can’t seem to keep her eyes open..
I should’ve drawn googly eyes on her

Our accommodation, Camping Zeeburg, was such a bitch to get to
From the city we caught tram 26 to Zeeburg
Then there’s a million-mile long bridge to walk along
We only realised we had to take the steps down to a connecting path in the middle of the bridge, AFTER we’d walked the whole length of it and back.. *sigh*
SO frustrating as we had our luggage with us!

Photos taken along the bridge, which went over a huge lake

And.. photos from the accommodation, which is basically a camping site with a small caravan park as well as a number of cabins.
We booked out a 2-person cabin for 30 Euros a night as we were feeling a bit stingy to splurge on a hotel room in the city!

My bird necklace is from Accessorize
The ends of one of the chain links was bent out and kept scraping against my skin.. so it didn’t last very long on my neck. Ugh!

Rosanne’s awesome bag and shoes
The bag, of course, was picked up from Vintage for Sale :p

Rosey and her beauty moley
Ha ha ha gonna get killed for this

Yeah yeah I look shapeless..

Yellow bangle from H&M – they now (like FINALLY) have sizes for their bracelets and bangles so they no longer fall off me, yay!
Splotchy tights also from H&M

And now a photo of two midgets at the tram stop

I look so STUPID in this photo!!! Where are my legs!?
They’ve been eaten by my.. bum!!

Photo-summary of our first day in the city HA HA
The colourful things in the middle are cheese!

The main ‘activity’ for the day was a visit to Anne Frank’s House

Statue of the girl outside

MAN was the queue to the entrance LONG.. felt like death standing there, having had been up at 4am that morning to catch our flight (I forgot to mention, we missed our train to the airport and so had to cab it!). My legs felt like rotten banana peels.

Entry was.. err.. something like 7 Euros? I can’t remember for sure, but it was quite tragic that I felt so so extremely exhausted because I really was interested in knowing everything that could be known about that house. I read Anne Frank’s Diary twice growing up and I loved it.

No cameras were allowed in the house, but we got to see lots of stuff including the steep staircases to the rooms at the back, go into the actual rooms – especially Anne’s tiny room with the all the magazine cut-outs and postcards that she had stuck on the wallpaper (preserved behind a sheet of glass) to brighten her room up. We saw the bookcase that concealed the hole that led to the attic. It was sad.. and very surreal. We saw old letters, books, files, and photographs. I touched the stone kitchen counter that was once where food was very quietly prepared.

Definitely very well worth the entrance fee!

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We walked about a bit more after that
And came across a really cool ‘mini-market’
Rosanne took like a million photos in there
Cant blame her, cos the shop was really quirky and had a nice layout!
AND cats on the wall 😀

We bought two buckets of Haribo candy there..
And a bar of hemp chocolate HA ha ha

At one of the many many canals that make up Amsterdam

Chip shops were really popular over there.. for some reason
They wrap it up in paper, like a cone and pour sauce lotsa sauce over it
Sorta like the traditional fish ‘n’ chips thing here

In the city we also bumped into..

MUSHROOM GALAXY!! Ha ha ha LOL

But we’re good girls so in we never did go.

Lame photo to end this post
We had dinner at a pub near Anne Frank’s House
And then draaaaaagged (almost literally) ourselves back to the camp

The 2nd day is MUCH more exciting
That’s cos we went vintage shopping HEHeheh

More laterrrrrrrr

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