Day Six of London, Amsterdam, Paris


Tuesday

Today was a travel day through and through. We got up around 7a and hopped on the underground. District line to Picadilly line to Heathrow. It was pretty convenient to have the subway run all the way out to the airport.

When we arrived, it happened to be way too early for our 1055a flight. So we had some Starbucks in the airport.When we got to our gate, the flight was delayed by 2 hours due to the weather in Amsterdam. But they loaded us on the plane anyway and waited for the ok. Less than an hour later we were in the air. It was a bumpy flight, to say the least. The winds beat us up on the way into AMS. Once we arrived, the pilot got us to the ground.

The airport was pretty easy to navigate. We exchanged money, picked up our Iamsterdam visitor cards, and called an uber. The weather was madness. Super cold winds just whipping us around. Our uber driver didn't speak all the way to the apartment, which was a big change from our previous drivers. The apartment is a boutique apartment, small but nice. We packed our grocery bags and headed to the grocery store in the same neighborhood.

There we picked our groceries and kept it more simple than London. Cereal, milk, chips, simple stuff. We made our way back to the apartment, avoiding all the cyclists, and there are cyclists everywhere. So many bikes, against houses, on the streets, everywhere. When we got back we put out groceries away, took showers and laid down to relax for the evening.

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