3 countries in one day

Breakfast in Belgium, lunch in Holland, dinner in Germany. (We know what you're thinking…. Is it that obvious? ;P #foodislove #foodislife

Zajtrk v Belgiji, kosilo na Nizozemskem, večerja v Nemčiji. (Veva na kaj ste pomislili... Je tako očitno? ;P #foodislove #foodislife

As you can see our day was pretty busy. Due to that our alarm clock went off 5.30 AM and at 6.30 we were already heading to Brussels central station. 

Kot ste verjetno že opazili je bil naš dan res poln. Prav zaradi tega je budilka zvonila že ob 5:30 zjutraj in ob 6:30 smo se že peljali na Bruseljsko glavno železniško postajo.

Waiting for train via Amsterdam on Brussels central station.

Once again we boarded on the train and started taking over Europe. Today was Holland's time to shine with it its beautiful Amsterdam also known as city of canals. Unfortunately our time there was limited, so spending time in this fairytale city only lasted for a couple of hours.

Ponovno smo se vkrcali na vlak in začeli osvajati Evropo. Tokrat je na spored prišla Nizozemska in z njo prečudoviti Amsterdam, znan tudi kot mesto kanalov. Na žalost smo bili kar precej omejeni s časom in smo lahko v tem pravljičnem mestu uživali ne nekaj kratkih ur.

Nevertheless it's been enough to get absolutely crazy about the city itself. It has a special vibe and unique tempo. People are generous and all smiles... Finally a place where they weren't widely avoiding dogs but actually wanted to get in touch. We even got to speak to some natives - about dogs, obviously. Moreover Vicky and Whumie were charming people with posing in the middle of the main square. (Result below)

Kljub vsemu pa je bilo to dovolj, da nas je vse čisto navdušil. To mesto ima prav zares posebno energijo in edinstven utrip. Ljudje so prijazni in nasmejani. Končno smo prišli nekam, kjer se nam okolica ni izogibala temveč želela stopiti z nami v stik. Pogovarjali sva se z domačini, Vicky in Whumie pa sta na trgu sredi mesta navdušila s poziranjem (rezultat lahko vidite spodaj).

Posing on Dam Square.

Unfortunately the time limit didn't allow us to test the public transport inside the city but at the same time it wasn't even necessary as the main train station is just a walk away from the city centre. We walked a nice circle around the city - of course we didn't carry the heavy backpacks with us - we're definitely too lazy for that! Luckily we could leave them on the train station, safely locked so we  easily walked around Amsterdam. When we came back to pick up our laggage the security guy passed by and said ''Hope you know you're not allowed to put the dogs in there!'' and we seriously answered ''We just took them out, it's over already''. Couldn't tell who laughed more. (:

Na žalost nam čas ni dopuščal, da bi preizkusili javne prevoze znotraj mesta a pravzaprav to niti ni bilo potrebno, saj je glavna železniška postaja zelo blizu oziroma čisto zraven mestnega jedra. Tako smo lahko celotno pot opravili kar peš. Svoje opreme seveda nisva nosili s seboj - za to sva čisto preveč leni! (: Na srečo sva na postaji lahko pustili vse česar nisva rabili in se tako z lahkoto sprehajali po Amsterdamu. Ko smo prišli nazaj, da bi pobrali našo prtljago, se je mimo nas sprehodil varnostnik in s čisto resnim obrazom dejal: "Upam da vesta, da psov ne smeta pustiti v omarici!", midve pa sva z enako resnostjo odgovorili: "Saj sva jih ravno vzeli ven. Mučenja je že konec." Vprašanje kdo se je bolj nasmejal. (:

In comparison with Brussels we were amazed about cleanliness of the train station. Even though it gets passed by over ten thousand people per day it was clean and tidy. The dogs could even sleep on the floor without us panicking what's all the liquid they're laying in. Absolute contrast with Brussels.

Navdušeni smo bili tudi nad čistočo železniške postaje. Kljub temu, da se čez njo dnevno sprehodi več deset tisoč ljudi je bila čista, urejena in in psa sta lahko na tleh ležala, brez da bi naju preveč skrbelo koliko bacilov se s tal preselilo na njiju. Čisto nasprotje Bruslju. (:

This is a good example of a well behaved dogs waiting for the owners to finally choose the nicest looking postcards :P

Time to leave came way too soon. When buying tickets for the dogs for our next destination Leipzig, we were shocked again. The price of the ticket was 62.5eur which is expensive even though the ride was long. On the first train they didn't see the dogs again and when we showed the ''dog tickets'' to the conductor he looked at us all shocked and said ''Dogs? You have dogs?'' as he didn't even notice them calmly sleeping under our seats as always. The situation caught attention of a person sitting next to us so he started looking under our seats and after he finally counted two dogs he looked at us and said: ''But the didn't do any wuff wuff!?''

Čas za odhod je prišel čisto prekmalu. Ko pa sva kupovali karte za pse, Amsterdam-Liepzig, sva doživeli ponoven šok. Cena karte na psa je bila 62.5 eur. Res da je razdalja kar dolga, pa vseeno. Na vlaku psov ponovno niti niso opazili in ko sva kontrolerju pokazali "pasjo karto" je bil le-ta popolnoma začuden saj psov pred tem sploh ni opazil. Ker sta, tako kot vedno, pridno ležala pod najinima sedežema. Pogovor je ujel pozornost najinega soseda, ki je takoj začel gledati pod najine sedeže in ko je končno preštel dva psa, naju je presenečeno pogledal in rekel: ''But they didn't do any wuff wuff!?''

After 7 hours drive we finally arrived to Leipzig. Time to get some sleep!
Po sedmih urah vožnje smo končno prispeli v Leipzig. Čas za spanje!