Its a very interesting city with a lot to offer. The city itself is really old while the people who inhabit it are relatively young. We went on the free tour that was offered and got to see everything all of the city. These free tours are AMAZING! But its really neat to see houses leaning every which way because the city was built on reclaimed land from the sea with really poor foundation. There are some of the smallest hosues we have ever seen and they all have a lot of character.
We were there for 4 days and did a lot of...cultural things. We went and saw the Anne Frank house. When we got there the line was wrapped around the block and we werent going to stay but we did and it was incredible. The house is still exactly the same except there is no furniture in the annex where the families stayed. You got to go through the small bookcase and go up through everything. It was really strange being able to walk through history like that. There were still pictures on the walls as well as origional bathroom and kitchen fixtures. Then at the end was Anne Franks origional diary, the whole thing was spooky and moving all at the same time.
We also saw the Van Gogh museum. It was intersting, but in the end its just another art museum. We saw a few famous pieces and some that were talked about during our art history classes so that was cool. But we have been to so many art museums that unfortunitally they are becoming less and less interesting as we go...same with churches, palaces and cathedrals.
Heineken beer tastes like dirt but the company sure knows how to create the most interesting brewery tour ever. The tour was in their origional brewery which they shut down in 1989, since then they completely transformed it into this incredible self guided tour. Every single exhibit in the plant was interactive, fun and educational all at the same time. We walked through the old brew room and it was really cool. They left all the old copper kettles in and you could play with them and look inside of them and ok, they are HUUUGE! We also got to taste unfermented beer...its sweet, in case you were curious. The rest of the place was impressive as well and even the free beer in the end didnt taste as terrible as it normally does...still, we only drank 1 of the 2 free beers we got...sorry Heineken.
The red light district isnt as cool as we figured it would be. There were not as many windows filled with girls, either because they werent rented for the night or they had a customer. It was very commercial also. It wasnt like the seedy back alley red light district that we where expecting. A decent amount of the girls looked like wierd space aliens becuase of the rediculous amount of plastic surgery that they had done. It was a little bit disapointing. But we ended up there twice, of course, and got lost the second time. The second time we were there was a little bit later in the night and there were a few more girls out but it wasnt what we were expecting.
In the end, we just had a good time...and were also proud of ourselves for actually making it out of there. For a while it was touch and go if we were leaving. :)
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So, all in all Amsterdam rocked and Oslo sucked! Happy to hear that you were able to get out of Amsterdam with at leave some brain cells left..or at least enough to know that it was wise to blog to let us THINK you still could! Too bad about the Norway experience..knew it was going to be expensive but am surprised at how much of a nightmare it was..oh well..chalk it up to another life experience!
Luv ya, luv ya, Aunt Mar
i think its a little weird they ended up in the red light district twice. what the hell is going on. what freak could they possible have gotten on. i want the truth!!!!! peter
why was jil so dissapointed there weren t alot of whorse in the windows and who decision was it to go back a second time i need to be careful what i write matts mom thinks someone else is reading this blog what the f**k anne frank wasn t even home when you got there
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