Thursday after class me and my roommate headed to my favorite unknown restaurant. I ordered the same thing as I always do and enjoyed it way too much, just like I always do.
too perfect
After lunch me and five other girls hopped on a train to Munich, our first stop of our long journey to Amsterdam. In Munich we had a five hour layover (I don't know the proper terminology when it comes to trains, sorry). So we did what any sane person would do if they were stuck in Munich for five hours, drink beer! We made our way to the English Beer Garden. There I met up with my friend Robby, who also had a couple hours to spare before heading to London for the weekend, after I bought a radler first. An hour later we parted ways, he had a plane to catch and we were getting hungry. Not having any concrete plans for dinner we just started walking.
About 40 minutes later of circling the streets of Munich we ended up at a generic restaurant right next to the beer garden. I mistakenly ordered fajitas. Poor move on my part I know. Once we finished we headed back to the beer garden where I got a much better meal!
Just as we finished our liter beers we headed back to the train station. We made a quick bathroom, snack, and wine run then got on our over night train. We found our car, changed into our "pajamas", opened our wine bottles, stuck our heads out the window (seriously one of the best feelings ever, I highly recommend doing this next time you're on a train. Just watch out for poles and such.) and met up with other UNO Innsbruck students. We some how headed up in the bike storage car, mainly because it had the most space for us to hang out in. What do a bunch of college kids with alcohol and nothing to do, do? Play drinking games of course. So using LSU cards we played Kings Cup until we were kicked out. Basically that meant it was lights out for everyone. We climbed into our tiny little car that slept six and fell asleep. Don't worry Mom, all the wine was for a good reason! As soon as my head hit the pillow I was out! The next morning I woke up and was in the Amsterdam.
top bunk
From the train station we went straight to our hotel, The Marriott (totally beats all those hostels I have been staying in). We dropped of our bags then headed across the street for pancakes. Who knew Dutch pancakes would change my life?!
After my life changing experience we headed back to the hotel to shower and get ready for the day. Our first stop was the zoo. Best zoo I have ever been to by far!
After the zoo we got a late lunch, it was about 4:30 in the afternoon at this point. I had the best goat cheese, grilled onion, and basil sandwich. Then we headed back to the apartment for a quick nap. Woke up, got dressed and headed out for dinner. We ended up at an Irish Pub that luckily had like 10 TVs so we could watch the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Did anyone else think it was really weird? For dinner I had a cherry beer, tasted like candy, and some Dutch mozzarella sticks. They served them with mustard... so good! That was also another life changing experience!
Once dinner was over I met up with my freshman roommate Katy! She is studying abroad in Amsterdam for the summer on a UW program. It was sooo good seeing her! Even though it was pouring down rain when we saw each other we ran into a big hug! That night we just went from bar to bar in this square called Leidseplein. It was a lot of fun, a lot of young people which was nice. I ended the night with a delicious falafel pita.
The next morning we woke up early to try to get into the Anna Frank house before all the tours. Somehow we had impeccable timing. It did not open until 9am, we showed up at 8:55am. There were about five people in line. At 9:00am herds of people started showing up. 10 minutes after than the line was down the block. It was a really good experience getting to go through her house and seeing their secret annex.
Then we headed to a place called Pancakes!. We got there two minutes before they opened so we were one of the first ones seated. I got an apple and whipped cream pancake. ughhh I miss it so much! it was probably the best pancake I had all trip. Dad, you should started looking up how to make Dutch pancakes for Sunday morning breakfasts!
The area where the restaurant was in was really cute. It is called district 9, it has a bunch of cute little boutiques. So we decided to walk around and shop a bit.
hey Lou!
Then we headed over to the Heineken Brewery. But saw a starbucks on the way so we had to stop in. It was my first starbucks all trip!
The Heineken Experience was really cool! They do a really good job with the tour, definitely a must see. And you get free beer at the end!
After we got lunch at this really good place. I got a buffalo mozzarella sandwich and split fries.
Then we went to Mike's Bike Tours. If you are ever in Amsterdam this is a MUST. We went on a three hour country bike tour and was so great and worth the 19 euros. Our bike tour, Mike (??), was definitely interesting. SHE is definitely one-of-a-kind.
Yes, this is real life.
She took us to really cool places. Like windmills, a cheese factory, a clog factory, on really beautiful roads, and through nature reserves. I had no idea Holland countryside was so beautiful!
name of my bike
windmill
cheese
clogs
The house boats are a little different in Amsterdam
passed by a restaurant called Cafe Hans!
Once we got back to from our bike tour it was already kind of late. We had a long dinner at this really good mexican food place then called it a night. In the morning we woke up, checked out, and of course had our last pancakes.
The eleven hour train ride wasn't too terrible. I slept for a good portion of it. We got bumped up to first class because some mother brought screaming babies on the quiet car so they asked if we could move to first class. Of course we said yes! When we got home we dropped of our stuff at Home4Students then went across the street to the local Pub for some wine and Manny's famous grilled cheese!
So that wraps up my weekend. I only have one weekend left now, which is too sad to think about, and I have no clue where to go! Cinque Terre? Florence? Interlaken? Zurich? So many options! This week should be pretty easy, and will most likely go by super fast! I do not want to leave. Innsbruck is the best place ever.
Well it is almost six at night here so I'm go to round up some friends and head out to dinner. The pub across the street is having 1 euro tequila shots tonight... this could be dangerous.
Guten Abend
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