Saturday, June 27, 2009

Don't really know when I left off.. what a journey.

But I believe it was from me taking off from London to Amsterdam.

Well we finally arrived some 400 miles later to Amsterdam, and lets just say it felt like we went from riches, to rags! Coming from England such a "proper" country to Amsterdam was like day and night.

Amsterdam prostitution is legal, smoking pot is legal, drinking beers on the streets is legal, and a local even told me that smoking crack will only cost you a 50euro fine. However, fighting on the streets can end you 10 months in jail. Its a hippy town what do you expect, they want to keep it peaceful place.

We spent about 3 nights there, lets just say 3 nights too long. Anyone who wants to visit Amsterdam 2 nights is enough, unless your life revolves around pot/beer/whores. Which I dabbled into a little of everything.. smoked some pot, drank the local Heinekin brew, and did some window shopping ;)

I obviously checked out the Red Light District, the girls range anywhere from some what attractive to just down right disgusting.. but to each their own.

We also checked out Lidesplain (don't think I'm spelling that correct) but its definitely a better area than the Red Light. More locals, more things to do than beer/pot/whores. We didn't find out about it till the night before we were gonna leave, so we did a little pub crawl with some tourists and locals, pretty fun.. definitely get your moneys worth on the alcohol. I'm glad we got to see that area, it left me with a little hope for the city of Amsterdamed

Oh and PS: if you ever visit that city, don't drive your $80k car there.. I mean I was shitting in my pants, I think I ended up on the train tracks and on on-coming traffic a few times by accident, the city is complete chaos!

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