| We were staying about 15 mins from the city so we took the train it wasn’t long before we had seen and and smelt Amsterdam. within 200 metres, tulips, clogs, a few sets of lesbos, blue and white china and the smell of green smoke. It was a dull old day and the city looks like it could do with a good steam clean, and quite frankly so could a lot of its inhabits. |
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| We did a walk of the city and passing the garden market, a much better range than Bunnings Garden Centre, bulbs, roses, tulips, more bulbs and marijuana. not only could you buy seedlings to plant next to your tomatoes, there was starter kits and hash in a can where all you needed to add was water and presto 3 months later a lovely crop. | ||
| A few blocks later we ended up at the Heineken experience this was the old brewery turned into a discovery centre. 10 euro, 7.50 if we had have seen the discount pass in our pocket, you got a tour, a few rides on simulators 3 tasty cold beers and a pretty flash key-ring. we did consider going back a second time round. We had a all day canal bus pass which was a boat and the trolley bus which was a tram and train pass so we jumped on the boat which was a great way to see the city. we got off at central station and took a left ending up right in the guts of the red light district at 2pm.
This area was a collection of bars, clubs, hash cafes, porn shops with interesting window displays and lots of houses with models sitting in the window waiting for a friend. The area was pretty seedy there was a collection of deros and scumbags and plenty of people offering you products as you walked by. coca cola must have been on special or something cos a lot of guys were offering us coke one guy even called me a heroin! most of them were rastafarin characters none of them gave any problem you just said no or kept walking and they tried the next person. |
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| We got a beer at a semi dodgy but safer looking pub and went to a croquette vending machine restaurant for lunch then back to the boat for a lap.
we came across a Spanish cafe bar and had beers and food then went walking trying out on the way back to the station we decided to do a lap of red light area, it was packed didn’t feel as sleazy as earlier and lots more to see There would have been hundreds of shop fronts with ladies, fat ones, thin ones, black ones, white ones, gorgeous ones, ugly ones, man-lady ones you name it. I recon you could of even got a goat, some even had price tags not cheap 150 to 200 euro seemed to be the going rate. There were heaps of bars, hash cafes, porn shops and cinemas all packed plus plenty of guys on the corners selling foil packs but area had a sort of fun and fairly safe (if you stayed alert) vibe much better than earlier in the day. |
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