Amsterdam - Nantes

It's time to finally finish the trip blog. It has been a couple months, so I am mostly just summarizing for posterity.

So...Amsterdam. Does it live up to the hype? Somewhat. There are "coffee shops" every few feet and enough sex shops to make the host of Talk Sex blush, but unless you go to the more shady areas of the town you are unlikely to find naked women dancing in the windows.

We stayed in another youth hostel, this time for two days. We ate at two different places while in Amsterdam, Burger King and some Italian restaurant. An interesting note about people in the Netherlands is that they love mayonnaise on everything. When I asked for our burgers to be cheese and ketchup only, there was still a generous helping of mayo. I guess to them the white stuff is as intrinsic as the bun is.

The Italian place was cheap and tasted excellent. By the time we ate here we were heavily exhausted after nearly 5 days of constant walking so it was a much-needed slice of luxury.

The highlights of our visit in Amsterdam were our visits to the Torture museum and the Sex museum - both on Halloween, no less.

After two abhorrently long train rides from Amsterdam to Nantes, we finally made it back home.

Traveling is NOT EASY!!! As much as people like to scoff at guided tours, there is a reason we need them. It is unbelievably hard to get around on your own and it is much more expensive than sight-seeing in groups.

Right now we are in Wales enjoying Christmas and New Year's with Laura's family. She will most likely have a good post about it in the days to come.

Cheerio.