21 February 2010
Why does Europe fail at public Wifi?!?!
So I’m in Amsterdam right now. No internet…I was really looking forward to having some internet…but no, I am denied.
Anyways.
So we arrived in Amsterdam yesterday afternoon. It was very odd weather – not quite hail yet not quite snow. It was like Dip-in-Dots Ice Cream, or bits of packaging foam, except it hurt when it hit your face.
We walked around a bunch. Had dinner at an Indian Restaurant – the food was tres bon. At night we walked around the Red Light district, then stopped for ice cream/waffles with chocolate syrup at a place called Australia before heading back to the hotel for bed.
Today we went to the Van Gogh Museum and the Nemo science museum. At the Nemo museum Erin and I played DanceStage (aka DDR). They also had a exhibits on puberty and sex, in a children’s museum – only in Europe. We learned some very interesting facts.
The Van Gogh museum was alright. I found out I didn’t like his art until he went to Paris – it was very dark and devoid of color before then.
Then it started to rain. And it was very cold. So, cold and wet, we walked around. Ate at a restaurant where I had Sate – a traditional dutch dish of chicken in peanut sauce – similar to the Thai dish, except not deep fried. It was really good and the bread we got had really good garlic butter spread. Oh, and I had a bagel for lunch today! (Haven’t found a bagel in France yet)
After dinner we walked around the red light district a little more and went to the sex museum.
Hahaha, Taylor is making the argument that the Netherlands and France should give us free wifi because we liberated them in WWII. It’s the least they could do.
Tomorrow we’re going to the Anne Frank House, the Reijjsomething museum, the Resistance museum, and maybe the Heineken Plant tour. Then we head on out to Berlin Tuesday morning.
I hope there’s better weather tomorrow. And maybe free wifi in my future…
And Amsterdam is kind of cool because most everyone speaks English. So it makes things easy to get around. There are also a ton of Americans here. A lot of them sound/look like Long Island girls *shiver*
It’s also neat here because so many people ride bikes instead of cars. There are bikes EVERYWHERE. Bikes, bikes, and more bikes.
So, Amsterdam is good enough, but Paris is still my favorite city by far. Followed in second by Toronto.
22 February 2010
Still in Amsterdam. Today we went to the Rijk Museum, the Dutch Resistance Museum, and the Anne Frank House.
It has been pouring rain for the better part of the day, so I gave in and bought an umbrella at an outdoor market (I forgot mine in Cergy).
The Rijk Museum was pretty cool. They had a bunch of Dutch paintings and artifacts from the 17th/18th centuries.
The Resistance Museum was really put together well. It was actually interesting to read all of the little plaques.
The Anne Frank House was not worth the 8.50 Euros. Granted, I have never read the book, maybe if I had it would have been cooler, but it was pretty much just a bunch of empty rooms with quotes from her diary splashed on the walls every now and then.
Haha, I sort of miss France :P
Berlin tomorrow. Hopefully the weather will be better, and free wifi will be more available. And they will serve tap water and won’t charge extra for ketchup.
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