Amsterdam and the smell of tulips behind me

While asking around for the best route to get to the highway, a GVB employee suddenly handed me a tram ticket to Zeeburg, which is close to the highway to Rotterdam, for free! I know it's borderline cheating, but hitch-hiking out of a city centre is next to impossible anyway, and hey; I didn't spend a single cent. The Dutch are a nice people. As I got off the tram, a family with a 17 month-old had overheard a conversation I had with the tramway attendant, and they offered to show me to the camping ground they were staying at, as I might find a lift on from there. I was also invited to eat with them, and so I did: chicken, beef, and bread on a disposable BBQ. When I eventually restarted the liften, I was picked up by another person who went out of his way to not only drive in the opposite direction from where he was headed, but to buy me a train ticket to Den Haag - what's up with the Dutch and free tickets?

When I arrived at Den Haag central station 45 minutes later, all I had to do was to go by foot ten minutes south down the road to reach a good Shell station, and five minutes later I was on the way to Rotterdam. I'm now sitting outside a shell/McDonalds. Not really trying to ask at the moment, as I'm taking the time to write this. I'm hoping to get at least another step of the way south tonight.