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Euro rail adventure!!! August/September 2016

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Hello lovely people who decided to read our blog!! 
Some of you may have followed the other travel blog that I do with my little sister Catriona...this one will be relatively the same but the writing will be shared with one of my best friends in the world, the lovely Claire (@Claireabella7 on Instagram if your interested).

(Photo of us here)

As we both graduated this July we decided to spend the remaining money that fourth year left us with (and some hard earned poker money form various jobs) on a special celebratory trip!! We had been talking about doing an interail trip for some time now ...but as usual either time, money or energy have been working against us... So since we finally had some time we thought "Hey! When else are we going to have anonymity chance to travel for a month without any disruptions or work commitments to rush back to!!" So here we are!! 

Doing a big circular loop around Europe, starting in Amsterdam and finishing in Brussels, attempting to see as many cities as we can in between...here we go...15 days train travel within a 30 day period, leaving us with approximately a couple of days in each place 🎉. 
We flew out from Edinburgh VERY early on Monday the 22nd August and we were in Amsterdam by 2pm (a wee stopover in Manchester to change planes).  If you know Claire and I at all you'll know we don't do mornings too well but we managed, we were however pretty pooped by the time we finally reached the Luck Lake Hostel shortly after four and eight just decided to stay in and plan, eat and chill on our first evening. 


First of all, WOW! This hostel is gorgeous, comfortable, quirky and has an awesome community vibe to it! Situated in an idyllic location on the outskirts of Amsterdam town, about a five minute walk from lake Vinkeveense Plassen . The hostel is made up of a series of renovated caravans, cabins and a few dormitories, a 'smoking' socialising cabin 🙃🤘🏻, a much smaller non smoking social caravan, some space for cooking and eating, and a breakfast bus. (Images to follow).


 



Anyway, the rest of the evening was spent planning some things for the next day, drinking beer in the sun and chilling in the hammocks. Awe also started making some lovey friends whom gave us some cool tips . Altogether a very slow but great first day!!

 
 


 

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  1. frankrennie24 August 2016 at 13:51

    You look very relaxed! ��

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  2. Hemhebartist24 August 2016 at 15:19

    Great blog and photos. Hope the rest of the trip goes well too

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  3. Hemhebartist24 August 2016 at 15:20

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  4. Hemhebartist24 August 2016 at 15:24

    Well there's nothing like saying it twice.

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  5. Hemhebartist24 August 2016 at 15:29

    As you may have gathered commenting a bit tricky

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  6. Hemhebartist24 August 2016 at 15:33

    Why couldn't they just remove comment without saying so. Makes you look mega stupid.Hope to get hang of this by end of your trip.

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