Amsterdam

The other day we (Richard and Brennen, the Aussies, and I) arrived in Amsterdam from Venice. The weather was beautiful: cold and rainy. After getting burnt and burnt and burnt by the Italian sun it was great to be cold. At least, after I stopped getting lost around the city and found a place to stay and put on two shirts which were dry, it was nice.

So far Amsterdam has been a bit expensive (making me feel a bit silly about not going to Istanbul which probably would have been cheaper to stay at, if more difficult to get to) and hasn't been as exciting as I'd hoped. Well, maybe unexciting is wrong, as Brennen got his bag stolen (!!!!) yesterday and had to file a police report.

Then we hung around and had some cakes and went to see the last Harry Potter movie in 3D which had the fortunate side effect of leaving me with 3D hipster glasses.

Today some of the brits from Rome are coming to Amsterdam and we'll be meeting them today which should be fun. After that we hit Paris, then move on to Barcelona, after which we'll be parting ways so that I can MATH MATH MATH MATH MATH and they can see Madrid and Morocco.

I wanted to send an update to everyone who's interested (<3 moms :D ) because there is free internet where I am at the moment, but I've got to head out and meet my friends and eat some food so I'll post more later!