Bastion Utrecht

Het is bijna zover! Mijn studie is afgerond, de laatste inentingen zijn gehaald, en nu is het inpakken en wegwezen... Op naar het avontuur!

Ik hoop dat ik op reis genoeg gelegenheid zal hebben om af en toe van me te laten horen, en mijn belevenissen aan jullie te vertellen. Natuurlijk zou ik het ook heel leuk vinden om van jullie te horen hoe het thuis gaat.

Hopelijk tot onderweg : )

Veel liefs, Claar

... a restaurant which reminded me of the Morty's Chicken BLT, which made me very happy (I missi Morty's). We did do one thing, which I found very cool - we climbed Domtoren Tower, a very old bell tower that used to be connected a church. It's about 7 euros and you get a tour of it, but you have to be willing to climb about 500 very scary stairs. This was harder than I thought it was going to be! The view at the top is worth it though!

... The place to shop for coloured rubbers, triangular rubbers, rubbers with animals on the end and more...
A blue light on a window literally means "she ain't what she used to be".
And window browsed "products" slash people from all areas of the world, divided into price, ethnic origin and even age. And the ages reach extremes.
So that was interesting, fun and we had a free beer at the end. A light hearted start to our time in Amsterdam.

The next day ...

The so called tolerance of the Dutch and other characteristics An essay something I wrote some months ago: A lot of people tell me that they find the Dutch a tolerant people, and often that is what the Dutch claim to be. However, my experience is different and I have lived in Holland all my life, though that might as well mean I can't really compare with other countries. To some extent, yes, the people here are tolerant. But ...

... a book. In October I still try to fool myself wrap myself up in a blanket, taking warmwaterbags with me outside and put my brain on ignore mode but at some point it's just not working anymore. With sun around I am a different person. Bad things happening, awful things like scissors that are lost, keys that fall on the ground, having my period and getting lost myself -again-, I-just-don't-give-a-damn. There is trust and confidence, I live in the here and now ...

... hahahaha stupid boys. these sex workers on average cash in 500 thousand a year working 3 days a week. but they gotta save it up cause they cant work for mroe then a few years before there 'used up'.. so to say.. they do their taxes lol, its weird, its an actuall profession. anyways, after the tour me ronda and mike went for some chinese dinner, mm. all u can eat for an hour? stil good. i had my fun they took off for their hostel and took off to my hotel, and called it a night

... and enjoyed the last few hours of companionship with each other from the last couple of months. We decided to go to the Van Gogh museum, again costing a lot for being rushed to catch my train wasn´t worth cost. It was here right before I left I realize that I had completely forgotten about visiting Anne Franks house! I even walked passed it several of times. This gives me all the more reason to return. I think I am going to stay sober for several of weeks now. Next stops - Scandinavia.

... was a long queue of young couples, groups of tourists, and generally normal looking people (as opposed to sleazy dirty old men) we lined up.   The entrance was 40 Euro each which included 4 drinks for each person.  Once inside, we were surprised to find that it was actually a small theatre.   We sat near the front and watched how an extremely well built man pleasured his female partner ...

... So when the bar closed, we all migrated into V's room where i think most of us ended up crashing out. I think it was V's room anyway because thats where most of us girls woke up the next morning and had to do the bolt to get our bags down to the bus in time. Thats it for now. I'll be updating again soon, maybe. But it's hard to recap on the end of contiki because it brings back so many good memories and makes me wish that i was still there. Don't worry I'll finish it soon enough.

When I originally scheduled my flight to and from Europe, I had a scheduled layover in Amsterdam. I asked kindly if they would allow me to have a two day layover there on the way home from Europe, and BAM here I am! I got me a room at the Flying Dog hostel which is just about impossible to get during the summer since its so popular. When I booked my bed about a month ago, several bed options had already disappeared. They have a really ...