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After about a 7 hour “nap” this afternoon, I spent the night in the red light district and the Liedseplein which is where all the partying goes on. Plein means “square”. There’s lots of them. My hostel is right across from the Museumplein and the train station is in the Stationplein.
I also walked pretty much all of central Amsterdam and quite a bit of not central Amsterdam. I walked and walked and walked. Hopefully my feet work tomorrow.
There were quite a few more prostitutes in their windows tonight than earlier today. Surprise! So far it’s been pretty much skank, skank, skank. Then I walked past one place and it was pure Plaza supermodel. I assume that was the expensive place.
In general, I feel like everyone here is more beautiful than in Kansas. Everyone is definitely better dressed. I think I was wearing the only t-shirt in Amsterdam today. There are no fat people. None. I’m dead serious and it’s clear why. These people bike their asses off. I will try to get pictures of the bikes tomorrow but I am not exagerating when I say that every single thing you can hook a bike to in this city has 100 bikes hooked to it.
There is also no traffic laws. You can drive anything you want from horse, to scooter (lots of) to motorcycle (few of), up to a large truck in any direction you want and on anything even looks like a street. Including the bike lane and sidewalk.
What else? Everything is expensive as hell. A pint of Guinness was EU 4.90 which is something like $200. Slice of pizza is EU 3.50.
It’s basically like home except their money is worth 60% more than ours.
Food is kinda funny. There is no Dutch food. As far as I can tell these people eat pizza, fries, Chinese, Indonesian and Chinese. The only Dutch food I’ve seen is “Holland Asparagus”
When I was served dinner on the flight I swore I would eat, or at least try, everything put before me during this trip. I’m usually a very picky eater. So that resulted in me eating, so far, green beans, a carrot salad, an egg and cheese biscuit and quite a bit of pineapple. That was on the plane. In Amsterdam so far I’ve had a crusoint (oh, I butchered that word), some apple danish thing and two slices of pizza. Tomorrow I might try that unique Dutch delicasy “General Tso’s Chicken”
Wow, Arianna is a hell of a snorer.
That’s it. I’m off to try to sleep. Tomorrow it’s the Heineken Brewery and the museums. Monday I think I might take the canal cruise and maybe a foot tour. Dunno if I need it tho. I’ve covered a good 75% of the map I was given on foot already.
Goodnight, from Amsterdam.