Hamsterdam

Yohoho,

Set off this morning around ten or so, have gotten fairly used to riding a loaded up bike now, didn't fall over at all today (I think I fell over 3 or so times yesterday?). Anyway, made it to amsterdam at about 1 or so, and bumbled around for another two hours or so heading through town trying to find my hostel. Turns out it's on the smallest most inconspicuous street ever. Seems like an alright place though, facilities are however a bit light on (what kind of hostel has no washing machine or microwave?).

Anyway, today my scalp which got badly sunburnt yesterday has been oozing pus all day, it's really quite gross. Don't think I've ever had sunburn this bad before. I guess shaving my head before I left was a bad idea, oh well. I did buy some sunblock today, but I think it's a bit late.

The weather was atrocious today, rained all morning, so I ended up at my hostel half soaked, and a little on the cold side. Still, it was a good little ride, the bike paths were all clearly signed and most of them were in good repair, and a lot of the ride was through nice semi-rural countryside.

Amsterdam really seems like a chilled out version of london. It has all of the shops restaurents and general big city features, but none of the traffic, and even the foot traffic seems more relaxed. There's also millions of bikes all over the place, and trams. The trams seem really awesome, might have to catch one tomorrow. Still, haven't really seen much of the city yet, wandered over to the red light district but being still daylight, there wasn't much in the way of interesting things going on. It did only take about 30 seconds before a guy wandered over wanting to sell drugs though, that's what I call service.

Still, been too tired today to be arsed doing much, just woke up from a nap a minute ago. Might leave it to tomorrow night before I go exploring at night.

Anyway, that's all I got for now.