21/11/2002 Amsterdam, Holland (Phill)
Well, it's a bloody cold day in Amsterdam! Raining, miserable and with a bit of a biting wind, but it's definately warmer than yesterday! Fieke had the day off school yesterday so she took me up to Amsterdam. We didn't manage to leave her house until about midday and neither of us were really looking to see everything yesterday. We did manage to go to the Rjeike Museum and see some famous paintings by Van Gough and Rembrant. Except, neither of us are exactly into art so we moved onto wandering the streets and trying to find a hotel.
Once we found the hotel we headed out for dinner and to visit some bars. Since this is Amsterdam that's actually the tourist thing to do and not just me being lazy, I promise! We did take a walk through the Red Light District but I wasn't allowed to buy anything :) Wait, I think my mum reads this, so I should explain that the red light district is actually a massive lightbulb shop selling only red lights!
Fieke hopped on a train back to Utrecht this morning to try and make it back in time for her 12:00 class, not that she had remembered to bring her school books with her! I think I'm a bad influence. I went to the Anne Frank House. The war still is a pretty bad memory for the Dutch and so Fieke didn't want to come and do that one yesterday, it's not even really a topic you're supposed to discuss. Anwyay, the Anne Frank House is, of course, where Anne Frank hid and wrote her famous diaries about Jewish treatment during World War II. Really it was very impressive and quite amazing that such a young girl could write such stirring journals. Of course they put my wee one's to shame!
I'm now in a massive internet cafe waiting for the rain to stop. Will probably head to the Van Gough museum this afternoon, and maybe write some postcards. That's my tough decision for the day! :)
Tonight there's some party that I'll go to. I'm pretty tired though so I may pass. I was also thinking about heading to Germany for a day or two early next week, I didn't realize how close we were to Berlin. I had a great time there last time so maybe another day is in order?
Posted by Admin at November 21, 2002 04:03 AM