Red-lights Amsterdam

No one wants to see its Heineken brewery, even the windmill tour package seems so commercial. At least I saw the windmills nonetheless. We stayed with Bulldog Hostel right in the middle of the red-lights district area. Walk down an alley with all the skimpy dressed chicks posing in their glass cabins, you could almost imagine what would happen next. Sex shops are at every corner, museums claiming about sex and erotica lined along the street, souvenir shops filled with wooden clogs - if you are to ask me what I've seen.

Besides its legal to smoke pots (or etc), its infamous porn industry, postcards with explicit illustration, some scary strangers whom stopped you in the way and asked for money; Amsterdam is a rather chilled out city.

If you didn't know this, this is what the guide explained, Holland is a state (just like England) but Amsterdam (just like London) is the city. Netherlands means "Flat land". All the land/houses are built under sea level, they have countless canals (what they are again famous for) and dams to keep the water back. So visit the city before one day the sea is going to drown this "underground" land.

I'm starting to love history, I never liked it anyway. We visited Anne Frank Museum, a house which has simply bewitched me. It tells of the second world war and how the Jews has suffered. The real encounter and diary of this Jewish girl (whom died at 15) has since moved the world with her writing. The house which the family hid during the war is now the Anne Frank Museum, named after her. Just like how I knew about the history of Germany before the east and west came together in 1990, and how they were imprisoned in their home country and restricted to travel. Now I'm being to love things you came to learn about when you move about...

What I <3 about Holland/Amsterdam:
Nice small shops
Farm houses (out of Amsterdam)
Beautifully painted clogs
Sex shops (look at the toys!) plus their sex humor
Canal cruise
Heineken beer
Maoz falafel

Something interesting, "Coffeeshop" in Amsterdam are for drugs, unlike Singapore's coffeeshop! Oh, "Magic mushroom" are drugs!