Amsterdam – night and day

We were very excited about arriving in Amsterdam, checked into our hotel with a million stairs (which is quite common in Amsterdam homes, hotels etc.) and hit the streets to check out the red light district and coffee houses. We found an area completely local for “coffee” and a bar (where they barely spoke English). We also found the gay bar district and some guys invited us to go to the “beach” with them. I’m not sure what that means.

By the way our bed in the hotel is the smallest bed we have slept in so far. It reminds me of a tootsie roll.



Amsterdam by day –
We don’t have much time in Amsterdam, so we tried to squeeze in as much as possible…hhahah. We started out at Anne Frank’s house (which was packed, if you ever go get there early or really late). Then we went to the Rijksmuseum which included a collection of paintings by the Dutch Masters. We also went to the Van Gogh Museum which houses much of Van Gogh’s drawings which I have never seen before. His famous painting “The Potato Eaters” is housed there. Next we went to Vondel Park, then took a canal tour. Hahahah too much stuff in one day, our feet were sore.
We went out to dinner and then found a nice coffeehouse and tried the “White Widow” variety and that’s where our night slowed down….a lot and we found ourselves in tourist hell.

This morning we slept in and then went to the sex museum. It was interesting to see porn from different time periods between 1880 and the present day. Not too much has changed although not many people have 100 concubines. The legal issues would be vast.

I have to say I would like to come back to Amsterdam and see much more of the city. The city is quite beautiful.

Now we are on a train to Germany. We are going to follow the Rhine River and stay in a castle or two. Not sure what to expect, but I better see some ghosts.

So the police are on the train and just brought a drug sniffing dog in here to check to see if we brought any drugs from Amsterdam. Basically the dog slobbered all over Peter and luckily Peter is smart and we have nothing on us.

I am now posting this in St. Goar, Germany…we had no WiFi for a few days....Peter will post more.