Oh AmsterDAMN!

Just over a week ago, about this time i was on a building site in Peterborough, life was pretty straight forward, i'd go to work after not much sleep, try and work for 8 hours, make some money and go home. Which for a while, worked pretty well, and then, like most things i seem to be involved in for too long, went rapidly south. I woke up on Thursday last week, and couldn't face any of it, i couldn't face work, or the fact my life had become one massive routine and needed out pretty quickly. So upon waking up, and without a phone/alarm, this meant upon waking up a bit late, i posed the question of just leaving to Amsterdam, one way for however long feels right. Claudia, being the second most stubborn person i know, probably next to myself, was always going to agree to such a ridiculous plan on the basis i'd definitely ridicule her if she said no. So following this decision things proceeded pretty quickly. We packed up stuff, booked flights and bus tickets and then saw a few friends on Thursday night to say bye to, then by Friday we left, just like that.

Getting into Amsterdam was pretty crazy, it was a Friday night and everywhere was booked up, although this only became apparent after a few hours of searching with some heavy bags. We just ended up in the Grasshopper for a few hours before heading back to the airport at about 12 and sleeping there, which was pretty bleak, kinda of felt reasonably homeless for a night. Since then though stuffs been pretty good, we check into bob's hostel early Saturday morning which felt pretty amazing to have a place to stay for 3 nights. Since then we've done some pretty cool stuff, met some amazing people and heard some awesome stories, literally been more chilled out than humanly possible. On Monday we went to this theme park that i used to go to when i was a kid called Efteling. After a few rides we took these psychedelic truffles which made the day ridiculously amazing. Going around for a few hours laughing and stuff like this was pretty beautiful.



But generally being as far away from my old reality as possible has been pretty cool. But it's about time to go find a job and stop spending so much money out here, so i'm gunna go give that a shot and let you know how it goes