day 7

Not much happening just had a really lazy day today just met up with all my friends in Leiden in the evening and just had a few drinks here are some photos of them in did'nt manage to get them all this night so that kinda sucks i'll put on as many as i can .

Day 7

Right since i had enough with this Hostel i've decided to go on my bike and cycle to Leiden Which was pretty fun so i travelled through about 5-6 towns on the way to Leiden from Utrecht ,So i cycled from Leiden to Marrsen that was a nice town not much going so i web to their local libary to chill out for a bit then 1hour later i set off to Breukelen which apparently is where New York got their name Brooklyn i wonder why ;@. i did not stay in breukelen for long just about 10 minutes to get directions to my next destination which took nearly 3 hours to which was Woerdon which i have pictures of , its a really nice place to go i locked up and went for a walk around their town and bought some chips and pizza which came to 2.56euros due to thinking i was a student ^^ and then asking for more directions to my next destination which was Bodegraven which also had nothing going on but it had Internet and it was 2 euros an hour in internet so just had an hour on it then had a cup of coffee and off i went to the furthest cycling which was to Nieuwkoop and don't ask what i was doing there i was just there. I must admit it had a nice lake and alot of nice boats and houses. And then to Alphen aan den rijn which was a pain to get to because i did'nt know if i was in Alphen because i asked alot of people and they kept saying either im in Alphen or this other place but ye that was also a nice place to be but just passed through it until i tore my pants because i got them caught in my bike chain so i stopped off in a resturaunt and get some scissors and turn my pants into shorts.

And so i was upto my last leg of the journey which was heading into Leiderdorp to leiden which took another 2 hours to get there and as soon as i arrived to Leiden i had to find a place to stay for the night so i was looking around a few places but they were so dam expensive so i ended up staying at the Hotel Van Der Valk in leiden which was really nice to stay in there . And i just stayed in the hotel all night and talking to the cool receptionist aswell who was called Rob.

Here are some pictures i took of my journey

Day 6

Right i have had enough of this Hostel now because since i have got here i have been moved around from room to room and it has not been pleasant so i have had to crash on the couch for the past 2 days ands its horrible because theres this Dutch tall guy who dresses like a scrubber and all he does is channel change and its so annoying and also he stinks so badly its quite disturbing and it has been really dirty here and theres nothing to ever eat here apart from Bread cheese and peanut butter and no one can be bothered shopping for supplies. And if that was not enough in one of the rooms there was a Staffordshire Bull Terrier in one of the Hostel rooms and that stupid old woman who is the manager told me to clean up after it and she is really horrible and has loads of nits in her hair along with her fat friend who stinks of BO and eats pies 24-7 and rolls around the hostel instead of walks. Theres alot of bed bugs and insects crawling around the sheets and that was left for me to deal with it. Also theres a couple of ignorrant people here but the rest of the people here are pretty cool to hang out with. So i am all packed and ready to ride to Leiden by bike because there are loads of bike trails leading to all major cities in Holland so im staying at some firends house and going to search for some work there so it should be fun so im going to go out now and get a bite to eat because i have always been eating inside here and because im low on money im not having a good vacation so it pretty much sucks and the trains have been expensive here so it has annoyed me.

Day 5

Well not a very constructive day just stayed in all day today not doing much but i managed to get talking to another guy who is from Florida and was heading out to spain yesterday and sold me his bike for 15 euros which is a pretty cool bike and fun to ride. So i decided to walk to the train station with him because i had nothing else to do and he had cut his Journey short so from spain he is just going to head back to Florida and then save up for another 2 years to travel again. So at about 9pm i set out on my bike with to guys from america and canada because they had rented out their bikes for a day but it took us 15 minutes to find this guy because they could'nt remember where the rental garage was but eventually we went back and then after 1 hour being in the Hostel i set ou again for a bike ride and just went in on direction and 1 hour later i end up near a place called Amersfoot it was fun until it started raining but even then it was warm rain so it did'nt bother me that much i guess. it was fun just one straight road and did't get back to the Hostel until about 12:30am and now because i have a decent bike im going to Cycle to Amsterdam nextweek but a day before that i guess i will cycle to leiden so its gonna be great to do that i guess but im gonna by a bike map and i dunno where to get one of them from :S but i will find one and very determined to .

Day 4

So after the great party lastnight i woke up at 2:15pm today and just stayed at my friends house all day untill about 8pm where we both met up with Maathijs and we cycled into the city centre of leiden about 10minutes away from us and stayed at a cafe where we met Geert he is a pretty cool guy to hangout and also there were 2 girls , Now i did know their names but i've forgotten tonight but they were fun also and have a good sense of humour because they seemed to laugh at all my jokes unless it was my northen monkey accent but i dunno but they were great people to chill with. So at 11pm that was when my train was going we left at the very last minute and missed the train so i was in for a big train Journey home so i had to catch the train to Schiphol Airport and then from there the next train was at 12:10am and that was to Utrecht Central Station and via Amsterdam Central station so i was an interesting journey i sat in 1st class because i could not be bothered going into second because it was 12am and there was no train ticket man anyway so i was the only one in 1st class :D.

so at 2am the train comes into Utrecht Central and i get off and i was embarresed about myself because i actually did'nt know where to go from this point and came down to the point where i had to ask for directions and then it took me 15 minutes to get to the Hostel and when i go into my room i see that another group has moved into it and im like WTF! so it takes me another 10 minutes to find my Suitcase but thankfully no one has take anything from it which is good. So now im just chilling for a couple of minutes then doing my Laundry

day 3

So yesterday was a brilliant day for me as i went to meet friends of mine for the 1st time ever so at about 4pm one of the friends from leiden says " Hey why don't you come to Leiden tonight because there all gettting their diplomas today and it would be a great suprise if you showed up" so i decided to go, so i go outside the Hostel and try and find my only to see that my stolen bike had been stolen again which really annoyed me so i go to the train station to go to leiden and i arrived there at 5pm and meet up with Yoine my friend in leiden and jeez i tell you now its the last time i go to leiden without a bike because i had to go on the back of his bike and it was on the biggest pains i have ever experienced in my life because his bike never had any suspension and im there telling him "try and avoid the big bumps" so he bloody hits nearly every bump man has ever made in leiden and my backside has gone so numb it was like i had morphine injected in it because it was that numb. So we finally after we go to Yoines house we head off to the Diploma assembly and yet again he hit every bump in leiden for no reason, So we arrive at the assembly and we are about 10 minutes late or something but it was like hitting aa wall as soon as we stepped in because the heat was immense and to top it all off because we were i was in Holland i realised that they were speaking Dutch so i was very bored and to top it all off it lasted nearly 2 hours after the Diploma it was time to meet the rest of my friends of Holland.

but during that 2 hours i was trying to hide myself so the rest of SvP could'nt see me but i got spotted by one of them (Eelco) and then i got around so i got rumbled in the end so so much for that one :S . So coming back to the end of the Diploma i met everyone there it was a great moment for me to meet them all it was great fun and one of the best parts of the Diploma assembly was it had FREE BEER and to top it off it was Heiniken so it proved to be a great diploma and so after that we headed off to this place and it was such a trek to get there and once again i was on yoines bike which proved to be painful and annoying because the road was so narrow and he cannot ride to save his life because we nearly ended up in a river a couple of times but we managed to make it so when we got there we nearly had to go because we thought a Police boat was coming on shore so we had to hide all the beers but it was a False alarm so on we went partying on and we had a great time everyone was out their heads and it was all good and i even got to tell some of my friends some practical jokes which would work wonders in Holland especially the Invisible wire trick that would go down brilliantly on cyclists. So we started a fire because there were mosquitos and midges all around us so we one of my friends Jens put a deodrant can on the fire and we thought because it was not hot enough that it would'nt explode but we were proven wrong and another friend Felix was next to the fire and the can exploded and the plastics had melted to his pantsnd it was extremly funny. So later in the morning at about 2am we started to get hungry and people started to go home i cannot exactly remember what we were doing then but i can remember having a music conversation with Eelco and chatting to Samov and Viktor about it too. at 3am it was all still good and so we started to get hungry so we decided to get our bikes and ride to Donner Dream but it was so annoying trying to get there because i kept losing balanced and we kept nearly falling over so i used i think it was either felix's bike or bikus bike i could't remember so it was all good in the end.

Going passed the train station we decided to hunt for bikes without a lock on so i could get a new bike and yoines bike had a flat tyre so he was annoyed about that so then we go to the Junkies at the train station and find some for 10Euros but i did'nt really want it because it was a smashed up and the seat was coming off but this guy was convinced that it work so i started riding it around the station but Maathijs was trying to convince me to buy itso i said to the Junkie that i will go to the bank and withdraw some money out of the bank but it was a fat chance that was ever going to happen so we also come across a donner kebab shop and at this point it was 4:30am and so we walk in and there was only lamb kebab on the spit roast and i asked him how much would it be for kebab and chips and the cheeky idiot says that will be 9 euros and i was like you can shove it where the sun don't shine mate.

so riding along Maathijs had apparently found a great shortcut for us to get back home but it took 30 minutes to reach there and to top it off there was this really annoying guy called Rolf or something stupid like that anyway and i cóuld'nt stand him infact i could punched him so hard he would come off his bike and also felt like buckling his wheel and he kept going on about how good scrubs is and how JD is such a cool person in it (Like a gave a dam)

So in the end we got home at 5:20am and if that wasn't enough it started thundering and i woke up like 3 times that morning

and the following people are the coolest guys in Holland which are - Jinsu,Eelco,Samov,Yoine,Felix,Viktor,Cart,Eric,Geert (^ ^brilliant mobile conversation) maathijs and Peter, Rock On

good so far

so far so good i've got myself some transport which i bought yesterday from a Junkie for 5 Euros so that saves me some money i guess but im kind of having money worries you see its bloody expensive over here i may extend my stay by a extra month so i can start work here but i will go around a few bars and see if they have any jobs on offer but i need to get a Sofi number (national insurance number) and open up a bank account

Good Morning

Hello, Good morning from Holland it has been a great Holiday so far although it only has been one day ^^) but still. I woke up this morning to a bunch of dutch playing a drum kit here and i asked a friend why they always play a drumkit here and he said "Because they are the Dutch and they live in a square metre of living space and don't have any room to fit anything in the rooms and so they come here and make an ass of them selves" i had such a great time yesterday BBQ and Pilsner it goes down well with the crowd :) so today i start work today doing the dishes and generally cleaning etc etc. im gonna meet a few of my friends today i guess in leiden providing that i know how to get there ^^ but i have made a few new friends as far reaching from Canada withing those countries i met a guy from Ireland and he is so cool to hang out also tells some great stories and has a brilliant sense of humour with he is doing a trip around Europe and he also has a blog but i've forgotten what it was called but i will post it on as soon as i get it. I also met a man from Poland and he is so funny and very fun to talk to i also met a guy from Canada, Now this guy is fun fun fun has also a great sense of humour and theres loads of other people i met here aswell including a guy from Newcastle i've been practicing my Bass Guitar also after 6months of non-use of mine but its been worth it.

So the weather here is great and so are the people also trying to find my way here was very difficult because it was very badly advertised at the front of the building and it turned out i walked past it about 5 times. I'll let you know if i do anything else today goodbye.

Im in Holland

Hey everyone im finally in Holland in a youth hostel its such a cool place to be at the moment and is a really good place to get on with everyone. we had a BBQ today and it was very different but i enjoyed it all and it was very fun to talk to people from around the world i spoke to Irish,polish and canadian people and lots lot more its gonna keep on coming i tried to ring a couple of friends today but they never replied but Utrecht Kicks ass if you wanna find me im staying at the B&B utrecht (city centre) so here i am.