Hotel Acca/Van Gogh
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... buy bunches of tulips and pussywillows! There was a huge range of tulips, daffodils, amaryllis, crocuses etc. on sale, but unfortunately, only a limited selection had export certificates so you could take them back to Canada. I didn't find any daffodils at all to take home, but did get a number of packages of tulips. I saw a new variety of tulip, Ice Cream Cone, that I had seen in catalogues at home selling for $20 for 3 bulbs, while here I saw it at 3 Euros for 10 bulbs - but ...
Great city, and reunited with a friend
... but the most interesting and mass culture shock was the Red Light District. You walk through and see all of these gorgeous girls in lingerie just standing in these windows. It's weird, and even apparently the locals still don't get used to it. But it's a normal part of Dutch culture and perfectly legal. After the tour ended, gave the guide 5 euros, and went on my way to do a little bit more wandering around before heading back to the apartment.
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Picture Perfect Amsterdam
... you almost kiss your knees when climbing the stairs. There is absolutely NO WAY you are getting furniture up to living room, and any thing bigger than a sack full of groceries. So, in order to make this possible, they use a pulley system and a rope to bring furniture and other large items they need in or out the window! We even got to see a couple do this as they were moving in their apartment this very day!
About these bikes. ...
DAM. We're in the Netherlands!
... directions and it turns out we had basically been circling the hostel like tards :') oh well a bit of exercise eh!
We then got to our hostel and the first thing we noticed was the INCREDIBLE smell of weed that just hit us as we walked through the door,which is when we realized that we were definitely in Amsterdam! The woman at the desk just gave us our things and said "Anything that is legal in Amsterdam you can smoke in that room" SWEET. We headed up to our room only ...
Under way - Amsterdam to Cologne
... something they do NOT call themselves. Holland only refers to two areas near Amsterdam, not the whole country and "the Dutch" is an American abstraction.
In the evening, Nico talked about Cologne, which we wouldn't get to until after lunch the next day. Afterwards, we asked Nico about trying to rent a car to attempt to see where Dad Boggess was ...
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