Well folks, we had breakfast in Belgium, lunch in Holland and dinner in Germany! We got the 6.36 train from Antwerp (it had stopped raining which made for a dry trip to the station) and arrived in Amsterdam, just under 2.5 hours later, having changed trains at Rotterdam. Our phones and Internet/GPS connections do funny things on the high speed trains, there must be some sort of signal blocking but we did manage a few munzees along the way. We put our luggage into storage lockers in Amsterdam and then walked around the canals, roads and alleyways capping virtual munzees all the way. One had to be careful which cafe’s one stopped in front of, the odour of pot wafting out could be quite strong!!!

One of the interesting sights today was a canal dredge pulling dumped bicycles out of the mud and sludge at the bottom of the canal. He was doing very well at it, obviously lots of the thousands around the place end up in a watery grave!

We retrieved our luggage and made the train just in time, we seem to have to hurry up for them often, but we did the same last year, so it’s an old trend, lol.
We had to change trains twice more, so that was 5 trains we managed today, in 11 hours total, which included the 3.5 hour stop in Amsterdam.

Once in Paderborn our first task was to find a Telekom shop and get ourselves a German phone card solely for data, and at 10 euros for 250 Mb and then shaping it’s the best way of doing it. Had dinner, capped a few virtual and physical munzees and dropped off the rovers yet again. Anyway, we want an early start in the morning as it’s nice to hunt when there aren’t many people around, the only thing it’s 21.30 already, and seems so wrong to be going to sleep whilst it’s still light out. But sleep we must!!!

One thing I forgot to mention about yesterday was the tram conductor on our first tram wasn’t interested in taking our fares, lol, she just said she didn’t want it!