we landed in amsterdam's schipol airport on sunday and immediately our plane drove on a plane bridge over a highway. so right away, holland is more than okay in our books! we took a cheap nice and easy (and slow compared to the stockhol, airport train that had a spedo,eter on it and went to the airport at 204 kph!) train to downtown from the airport. we couldnt figure out how to use the tra,s right away so we walked the 20 minutes to our hostel and found it right away. lisa's friend perry and 2 of his friends were there waiting for us so that was nice. we threw our stuff in our room and went out for canada day!!
now, we had hoped to find a cool canadian bar full of canadians doing canadian things, but, well, we couldn't. so we just went to random places and told random people that our country turned 140 today. and then they suppressed a giggle. lol.
compared to stockholm and copenhagen, amsterdam is a bit of a dump. the water in the canals is dirty and there is actual garbage on the ground sometimes. once we got used to it though, we had a blast! there is so much to do in a,sterdam, more than lisa especially expected.
we wandered around for a while, tried fries with ,ayonnaise (way too much mayonnaise to be awesome, and ketchup is better), and explored the canals and the red light district. lisa at first thought it was everywhere but really its just a few blocks. however they are right downtown so a lot of the time you end up walking through it to go fro, place to place.
on monday night we caught a train to Utrecht to visit my cousin maggie, who is in school in the netherlands. Utrecht is about a half hour fro, a,sterdam. maggie treated us to dinner qnd drinks and showed us around a nice city with canals that is a lot more "dutch" than crazy amsterdam. i liked Utrecht and so did lisa. and it was a lot of fun to see my cousin! thanks maggie!
on tuesday we had what might have been our biggest day yet! we got up early, went to the van gogh museum, visited the heineken experience which is a pretty cool brewery tour, went on a boat cruise of amsterda*m's canals, and finished up at the anne frank huis. oh, and we ate fries for dinner :)
a,sterdam felt rushed because we arrived at night and left in the morning on wednesday for Gent, so even though we stayed 3 nights we weren't there for 3 days.
so far, this preplanning stuff is working out great! everything is going very s,oothly.
bye
bye
simon
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