True enough - that's how I was expecting to get there. I don't imagine a taxi would be a particularly cheap option! I just wondered how much it would cost, how long it would take, and whether it involved an excessive number of changes, and the resultant chance of my getting hideously lost and ending up on a non-stop train to Madrid, or something equally stupid.

Last time I was in Amsterdam one of our group got lost, got on a train, ended up somewhere out in the sticks, and had to wait for morning to get a train back to the city. Admittedly, he was rather the worse for wear at the time, but still...