The Departure and The Amsterdam Experience
We had our last days at Rowena Crescent, and sadly kissed our old house good bye and embarqued on the Eurostar and headed over to Amsterdam via Brussels! Now, Amsterdam is always a pleasure, as I'm sure most of you will know and this time was no exception! I feel that not much comments are needed, so please use your imagination here to picture what a weekend in Amsterdam would be like! Apart from the obvious, we did check out some Jazz clubs with an ol' mate from London and we checked out Boom Chicago, a local comedy show that we managed to get in for half price with a free steak dinner! ;) Some pictures for your entertainment:
Lonely P. NZ can only get you so far...Antwerp beer extraordinaire
So the original plan had been to then head over to Luxembourg, just cos neither I nor Dru had ever been there before, but according to some amsterdammers we met, luxembourg sucks (and here I quote:) and "is full of inbred people!", so we decided we could live without that and headed over to Anterp, in Belgium which was a real nice place and the beer tasting seesion we had was even nicer! 
Nice people too, we quickly made friends with the bar staff. It was here that it struck me the most just how different Europe is from NZ, just how every city has a great history and some truly magnificent buildings! Interestingly, everyone speaks dutch around here (eastern belgium) the waitress could hardly even speak french! However, and after a few beers, we had no problem comunicating :D
La Bretagne et le Granit Rose de Tregastel
We then swiftly moved on to Brittany, where we met up with Goul and Morganne!That was a truly special moment, meeting up with already old friends from the New Zealand days! And what a great time we had! We arrived in Rennes and went our for a few beers and toured the city. It's a great place with a huge student population and some awesome bars! We sampled some the highly praise french cooking (well deserved praise, that is!) and generally chilled out at all the local places like "Le Petit Vélo" and wished we were "branché" enough to go to "La Place"!
But tregastel, towards the north was more adventure packed! We headed over there and managed to nearly die both on the mountain bike and the kayaks! (Hey Goul, I still regret trashing your bike(s)!) This is as awesome place right by the coast of Brittanny with some awesome landscapes of pink granite and some cool castles overlooking the hills, which apparently you can buy! Not bad for a summer house!
This was probably the highlight of the trip for me cos it was the perfect combination of nature, city and time with good people! Goul and Morganne, I'll see you in London soon!
We then moved off to Spain for yet another week of drunk and disorderly fun! But more on that soon!
1 comment:
Strange to see pictures of you there. The world is so small.
Hope you had fun and enjoyed the landscapes of brittany.
Where are you now? back in London?
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