Amsterdam Downtown

... nice cars which arent more than 5 years old on average.
today we've driven for like 6 hours but it's been cool getting to know all the people on the bus kinda seeing cliques or posses happening but guess thats inevitable. on the whole most people seem to be approachable and cool. im a backseat bandit today with Marilyn from Canada and Chris from Cali with some VERY hung ...

... into figurines that have become entities all in their own...

- And that funny little female me is gonna pay for it all, that little plump Finnish lady we met last winter in Mexico, short, plump, straw blondish thin hair and pale skin with horrible red blotches covering her roundish face...just like me but then female.

I can clearly detect the jealousy underneath his irony, the twitches in his face betraying his true ...

... to form and sadly also true to schedule, took all day to get us down to London arriving around midnight with a change at Milton Keynes. With our flight leaving early the next morning, we’d decided there was no point in doing anything much, nor trying to visit any of our mates in London, so we jumped on the express coach out to the airport where we thought we might be able to sneak in a bit of cheeky kip time before our flight to Bilbao in the morning. Only one thing that was ...

... 44 - AMSTERDAM Today was our day to explore Amsterdam. We walked around for a bit and then went to Anne Frank's House. This was very sad, but probably one of the best things I did on the whole trip. It really hits home realising how bad life can really get. I brought the book to read, but it will probably be a very long time until I finish it, seeing as I haven't read a novel since school:) We then went with a group for a nice pub lunch and then headed to the Heineken Experience ...

... with that hooker and they talk now on MSN :)). What i didn`t like in Amsterdam ....hm... there where to many "high" peoples :)) . One of them was selling pizza and he got really mad when i told him that i only like Pizza Hut ! :)) Anyway ...if you have the chance to visit Amsterdam : GO FOR IT ! It`s fun !

... the various usages for windmills and even some Windmill 101 engineering. The view from the top was very nice. Our tour guuide mentioned several times that the last official purpose of the mill was to turn Corn in to Wheat. A neat trick that I'd like to see. No wonder the Dutch are such a content people - they're magical. The next stop was a canal cruise. It was described in the tour book as "More relaxing than informative" so ...

... very Americanized and one can see a strong connection between the Dutch and American cultures. Everyone seems to know English and there seem to be as many American-style resturants as there are of those of the Netherlands' former colony, Indonesia. Though Amsterdam has a reputation as a financial and brokerage centre, that is not obvious to the tourist visiting the city core. The main industry seems to to be tourism, and everything I've described so far caters to that ...

... package. -Expatica.nl July 4, 2007 DRUGS REGISTRY MPs have voted to set up a national registry of all serious drug and alcohol-related incidents. MPs say a central organization will provide more insight into the scale of problems with drugs such as hallucinogenic mushrooms. -DutchNews.nl July 5, 2007 POLICE DEMAND END TO HOMEGROWN MARIJUANA Current laws which turn a blind eye to private individuals growing up to five marijuana plants should be overturned ...

The "Flying Pig" sums it up. Not only the name of Amsterdam's most famous hostel, but how I feel flying around Europe, doing my part to melt the polar ice caps. I feel a little sick. But Amsterdam once again proves to lighten and enlighten, and I feel that just maybe, there is hope for our planets future. I guess its just ours I'm not sure about. Only three more days in Europe, then ...

... I had to be at Heathrow airport at some ridiculously early time like 8am on the 22nd, so I could only stay for the extra few hours, or option A. With this in mind, I was determined to make the most of my time in Amsterdam, and regardless of what time we got to the hotel, we were all going out. After we'd sorted out logistics, we settled in for the ride, and I'm pretty sure most of us had a nanna nap. After more than 870 hours, and over 11 ...