4th June – (Friday) Day 3 Amsterdam to Berlin

Checked out of hostel early in the morning and prepared for a long ride to germany
We had afew adventures along the way. The first one was taking 2 trains within the airport, a series of 7 or 8 escalators and running across 4 or 5 travellers within 15 minutes to catch the transit plane from Hong Kong to Amsterdam coz we were too addicted to my monopoly deal! We ended up being the last to board the plane and had the door closed behind us. The second adventure happened today. We woke up very early in the morning and left the hostel at 9am to buy the 10.30am ticket to the international transit (7 station stops away from the station where we are) and then take the 11.50am next train to Berlin. But we didn't know that the train doors closes VERY FAST like 15 secs and they wont open the door even if you ask the train conductor to! So what happened was we were slowed down by our heavy lauggages and Andy left one of the luaggage outside the train and went back up to the train to help the rest with our bags. Then BOOM! THE TRAIN DOOR JUST CLOSED BEHIND HIM! and I tell you the train door closes SUPER FAST. Not like the Singapore MRT train - ours is very slow compared to those in Europe! So the bag's outside the train and everyone else is inside the train. Just nice the train conductor was coming into our cabin to see our tickets and Yew Kuan tried to ask him to help us open the door. But he had no sense of urgency and simply continued collecting the tickets... and we can't give him any tickets coz all our Euro Passes ( the tickets) are in the bag that was left outside the train! After collecting the tickets then did the train conductor started talking to us to understand what happened @#%&*(*#@!#%&*&^%$#@!&*&^%$#@#&*(*&^%$#@&*(*&#@*(*&$#@*()(%$#@*(*&^%$#$*( and he called the station to tell them what happened. So we only got to alight 2 stops later (coz he attended to us only one stop later) to go to the service counter to wait and hope that our bag will be found. But it was not found and we decided to go back to the train station where we left the bag. We can't go anywhere else without our Euro Passes too. So we took the train back to the international transit station but the bag was still not found. Just as we were about to leave, a call came to tell us that the bag had arrived at the station which is 2 stations down, the one we were at just now. So we went back and got the Bag =P Quite an adventure eh! In the end we only arrived at Belin at 7.30pm. LOL!
Reached Germany/Berlin only at 7.30pm.
Took 2 hours to find the hostel which was just 20 minutes away from the station we alighted at.
We were totally amazed by the quality of hostel.. it was more of like a 3 star hotel to us! The beds were very comfortable too. Clean and big toilet facility with free breakfast and food for hungry ghosts at night! What more can I ask for? =D