Amsterdam & Springsteen

I realised our photos are on Stephs computer so London photos will have to wait, Ill get some Amsterdam and other photos on soon. Well we journeyed down to Dover by bus where the white cliffs are and caught the ferry across to Calais. We then drove through Belgium and on to The Netherlands. Thats 4 countries in 12 hours, pretty impressive. Got to Amsterdam and met Big Mal at the hotel we were both staying at and cheesed it out to Amsterdam Arena to see Springsteen. The Arena seats 60,000, the biggest gig I've been to as NZ's biggest would be only 40-45,000. It was awesome with a full stadium which was huge and Bruce played a full 3 hour set from 8 sgharp through till 11pm and with more energy than anyone you see, I would put him as the best living artist easily. I must get his setlist of his website, It can be one for the spaghetti incident Jimmy. Then we headed back into town and met Deb at The Grasshopper, a well known Amsterdam cafe and afterwards wandered through the red light district. Some very dodgy characters wandering\following around and subtelly yelling 'coke' at you as they walk past, wouldn't want to take a wrong turn on your own, caught a cab back with Big Mal the guy did about 90km\hr through the city streets, crazy, especially since there seems to be no defining footpath and there's cycles, pedestrians, cars, trams everywhere. The next night we did a canal cruaise and went out to dinner and went for a quick stroll and then back to the hostel for another early morning to head off to Berlin where I am writing this from at midnight on a computer set to German, it's confusing, but Berlin looks awesome already as Deb and I went for a wander this evening when we got in, the buildings and streets are amazing....