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Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Amsterdam. A Theme Park for Adults.

It really is. And the themes are debauchery and drug use puppies. Needless to say it was pretty incredible. Our hostel was in the red light district, which is one of the most surreal places I have ever been. Walking around it we were constantly accosted by people offering us ''Coke! Ecstasy!'' while we watched men talk to the prostitutes in the windows, and in many cases, go inside. What truly made it surreal was the fact that this all takes place in beautiful architecture, next to canals and bridges (albeit with red lights on them). At one point a guy wouldn't leave us alone about LSD.
Him: Hey, you know what LSD is?
Me: ...
Him: You know? You know LSD?
Me: (Worst Move Ever) Yeah dude, I know what it is. We don't want any.
Him: You know? You think you know? What is LSD? TELL ME! YOU THINK YOU KNOW!?
Him: YOU DON'T KNOW. YOU THINK YOU KNOW BUT YOU DO NOT. YOU WANT?
...and this went on for a while. To avoid this, don't talk to drug dealers at 3 AM in the red light district.

The rest of the city was extremely nice as well. Saturday I was up for literally 20 hours, and I walked around the whole thing. The Van Gogh Museum was particularly nice. And the food was spectacular. A lot of Middle Eastern and Asian food (which I had previously had only once since getting here). The only thing I didn't particularly love was in a trendy restaurant in a nice shopping district, where I ordered ox sausage (being adventurous) and it turned out to be raw. And not like dry curred raw like prosciutto, it was just some raw ground ox meat on a piece of bread with some greens. It was surprisingly good but I probably wouldn't order it again in a hurry.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

ew ox...


-gen

6:37 PM  

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