Not really knowing how the train schedule worked, we headed to the train station. We went up to the ticket booth and showed the lady our Eurail pass and told her where we wanted to go. She said that all the trains were full to Amsterdam because of some delay yesterday, but she could get us there in an alternate route. We would have to make three connections in Northern France and two stops in Belgium. This meant switching trains in a five minute window between the trains arriving and leaving again. With the help of some nice people and our natural athletic speed, dodging people we made it. We may have pushed a few people down a flight of stairs and up and down stairs, people pointing here, there in different languages. It was very stressful, but we did finally make it..... but that wasn't the only problem.
When we finally got to Amsterdam around 9:30 and stupid us we had forgot to write down the address, directions or even the name of our hostel. We were banking on being able to find an internet cafe to go online so we could figure it out. Sounded like a plan until we realized we were wondering aimlessly down the streets of Amsterdam looking like we. We finally ran into another hostel and went inside. We explained to the guy what our situation was and he said he could go online for us and get us the info. Homeboy came through and we promised ourselves we would return the favor of coming back to get a drink. So after we made it to our hostel at around 1030 we were needless to say very worn out since we had been traveling for about 8 hours.
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