At 1am on Saturday morning I finally feel asleep. At 4am my alarm goes off and it is time to get up. Despite feeling like I had a grand total of 5 minutes sleep, the adrenaline kicks in as I know it is time to travel once again. My destination is Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia where I will be spending around 1 month before I return back to Budapest.
Christmas time of year always means high prices on flights. The two cheapest options to KL from Budapest are EgyptAir via Cairo or KLM via Amsterdam. Not having been to Cairo, I was tempted by this. However there cheap ticket meant that no stopover was possible. I therefore chose to go via Amsterdam and spend 12 hours there. Ok, so I had to get up at 4am to do this but I’m glad I chose to do this. It was a great day and I was so tired on the flight to KL that I slept for a good amount of time.
My parents used to live in Den Haag in the Netherlands and as a result I have visited Amsterdam quite a few times. This time, however, I had a local to show me around. I met my friend Linda and promptly hit Starbucks for some tea. I had made this smart decision not to bring a jacket, as I didn’t want to carry it around Asia. Fortunately, Amsterdam was a little warmer than Budapest today so I didn’t suffer too badly for this.
