Beanie's Trip to Holland, Day Four!

Thursday was our last day in Amsterdam!! We had breakfast of cornflakes, coffee....

 and bread and orange marmalade!!! Yum! 

 Then we had to pack up and leave!!! (But not before we had lost letterbox number three somewhere in the youth hostel near reception!! heehee!!)

 It was foggy today, and the park looked eery and quiet....

Bye Bye youth hostel!! It was nice staying there!

On the way, we spotted some geese near a canal! Then I remembered that we still had some cake left over from our train ride the day before!!

So we stopped to feed breakfast to the geese and the moorhens! They really liked it too!

The geese don't like the seagulls much though - they chased away all the gulls that tried to get cake!

On the way to town, we passed a Cheese Shop!! That's my favourite!!

Well, apart from chocolate shops....

Coo, that's really weird, seeing canals in the fog...!

We walked past the Flower Market too!

And then stopped for coffee! Andrea said I could have the biscuit!

We saw this statue outside too!

I don't know what his name is but he's nice!!

I had three wonderful cards to lose on my way, so I tied one to this bicycle!

We said goodbye to the horses too.

And we said goodbye to the scarey lions here!!

RAHHHRRRR!!

And we stopped for lunch! They didn't have French Onion soup today, so we had tomato soup instead with extra French bread and butter.

And then it was time to head up to Centraal Station...

We met Bunny at a Candy store!! He doesn't look very happy - I don't think he's allowed to eat any candy. That's not fair!!

OH!!!

At the train station, we got on another double decker train that went to the Air O'Port!

We found a big Globe of the World at the Air O'Port!! I found some of the places I've visited!

We lost my last card in one of the ladies toilets at the Air O'Port!!!

We had to wait a while before they told us which gate to get out plane from...... so we sat and watched this plane get loaded up!

WHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

I love take off!!!

We didn't have any food on the way back because we weren't hungry so we just watched out of the window!

OH! We're back over England again!

I think the passengers all had beans again for dinner last night - there was lots of wind blowing us home fast!!!

Coo - I wonder what part of England that is?

That looks a bit like the Isle of Wight but Andrea said if it was, we've gone too far down the English Channel...... and we'd be landing at Bournemouth Airport instead!

We're turning round now...!!

Well, we landed at Gatwick so it can't have been the Isle of Wight....!

Because Andrea had a biometric passport, we went through the e-control this time. All we had to do was scan her passport, have her eyes looked at by a little machine and then the gates whizzed open and we were allowed back into England!!! We then waved goodbye to the riffraff still standing in line and got an earlier bus back home!!!
How fab is THAT??!!

It was a lovely evening too.....!

When we got off the coach, we saw this painted onto a Telephone cable box!!!

We're home!!

We had lots of mail waiting for us at home, including A Package from Jerry and Ben and a postcard from Hammie from his mini holiday before we met him in Groningen! That was funny!

Between me and my friends, we all found 16 elastic hair ties in two and a half days!!!

Even Uncle Harry was picking them up for me!!!! Hahahahahaaaa!!!!

We had to mend Ickle Bear's face (his snout had become unstuck) and then I showed him my new mouse, my squished penny and my musical Spending Money that I found!

And best of all I got a new stamp in my passport!

What a lovely holiday!!!

Beanie's Trip to Holland, Day One.

Last Monday, Andrea told me we were going on a Very Special Trip, and put me in charge of Packing!!

All done and ready to go!!!

We're getting a coach? Where to this time?

We went past the Royal Pavilion Palace.....

And got off at Gat Wick Air O'Port!!! We're flying somewhere!!

Now, which one's our Flight?

We asked the Harrods Bear where to go and he was very helpful!

Here we are! Ready to get on the Big Plane! I remember those from last time I came to Amsterdam.... they're like big metal seagull things that carry people and mice.

And it's take off!! WHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

We had a toasted cheesey sandwich for lunch, too!! That was yummy!

Oh look! We reached the other side of the English Channel! I wonder if that's Holland down there?

Then we had to get Train. Andrea said that we got to Amsterdam earlier than they said it would take and it's because of Wind making you go quicker. I suppose all the passengers ate beans for dinner last night then, and farted a lot!!!!! HAhahahahahaaaaa!

We got off at Amsterdam Centraal station.... I love that clock!

Then we got Number Five Tram....

And got off here at Leidseplein!

We saw the Hippo on the bridge again!

And here we are at Vondelpark Youth Hostel!!

After we checked in, we went to our room to leave our bags. We got the bottom bunk.

We stayed in a different part of the building this time, at the back of the building..... this is what we saw out of the window!!

On the way here, I found these at Centraal Station!! How exciting...!

Then we went out to investigate! We had to go past these to get to the main building!

The crocus are starting to come out too!

I've never seen this part of the hostel before!

They've even got a muriel on this wall!

That's the rest of it!

We then had a walk in Vondelpark

And then we stopped off in a cafe for a beer!! Mmmm...mmm!

Then we decided to go to a restaurant for dinner. Last time we came to Amsterdam, there was a little ice skating rink in this square!

We decided to come to this Chinese restaurant! We ate here last time, and really liked it!

And now the pictures are very dark!!! But I am in this picture, drinking some jasmine tea!!!

And in this one, I'm eating prawns in black bean sauce and egg fried rice! It was yummy!!

We met this dragon on the way out! He looks a bit scarey!

We saw this picture on the wall on our way back to the hostel.

And I was so tired, I went straight to sleep....!!

What an exciting day!