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Monday, July 11, 2005 London - Amsterdam I took a little nap through Belgium, which is a lot of farms, goats, cows and traffic! There are little canals and streams everywhere. The boat ride from England to France was pretty cool. I don’t know whether we are going to get stamped at customs, anywhere else, because we are officially in Europe. I can’t believe they have rush hour traffic in Europe, weird. The gas stations here have restaurants. People here love bikes; they ride on their own little highway paths. The French can’t call it an egg salad sandwich. It’s “ egg, mayonnaise and cress”
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. We just passed Waaslandhaven-noir; I don’t even know what country we are in. (Belgium- Holland border) We are now in some ghetto tunnel that happens to break the traffic. BKB Tuesday, July 12 Amsterdam orientation & at leisure Yesterday we visited a
cheese den where it smelt horrible, there a clog-making demo. I got to try
them on and sit in a big one. We went to Vollderdam and had mini pancakes,
so good.
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The city of Amsterdam was
breath taking. The canals, buildings and the hustle and bustle was
amazing.
 
We arrived at night the first day and went on a canal cruise and
ate on a floating Indonesian restaurant. Other than all the demos
yesterday, (clogs etc). I went into the Anne Frank House and climbed the
stairs into the secret annex. They had the diaries, pics she pasted on the
wall. Actual pieces of the original wall of their height measurements. It
was indescribable, and then went to a café where we ate lunch on a canal.
I ate a plain salad but it was still good. We went shopping and such and
went to a coffee shop. We then went to a traditional Dutch dinner. We had
a welcome toast of dry gin (a shot). I had pea soup with sausage with
sausage (didn’t eat the sausage). Hotchporcita,
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We then went to the sex show in Amsterdam. **^//**. Then we went to a popular place that was one floor for smoking and one floor for drinking. Everyone loosened up and we all had a great time. |
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There were tiny tiny houses. I don’t understand how they can live
like they do. 
this **/ they ate during
their famine and we ate it. Mashed potatoes and mashed carrots, mashed
together. This beef stew **/ which tasted like meat soaked in gin or
whiskey and looked like **/. Served with a sausage, chunk of bacon, pickle
chunk and 2 pearl onions. Dessert was a thin pancake with ice cream and
orange liqueur. What a meal.