Operation Amsterdam

Amsterdam was about..

Windmills

Tulips

More windmills

More tulips

Occasionally some clogs

And heck load of nice scenery!

Yeah, go ahead, be a smart guy and guess what's their main transport around.

Clubbing the night before catching the mini bus to London was a bad idea. Stiff 90 degree seats means bobbling your head around for a few hours in the attempt to catch some sleep. Arrived at Royal London Hotel with neck stiffer than that tree trunk in the garden and joined the Contiki tour group.

Crossed the English channel with a 45 mins ferry ride to France, the country that build cars with quality like Proton, and headed on the Amsterdam. Whole trip took approximate 14 hours.

Hotel Inner Amsterdam.

They gave us this to point to the taxi drivers and go "uh-uhhh" while stoning.

The canal cruise was the first thing the tour offers. There are 88 canals in Amsterdam with water cleaner than the Klang river in many ways, canal buses are available for 26 euros per person. Given on tables of 4 or 6, a bowl of cheese and olives with chili, a small bottle of something that tasted like vodka Ribena and FREE FLOW OF BEER AND WINE.

and guess what, after all the beer and wine, Amsterdam provide you this is the place right in front of the Red Light District so you can release that pressure in your bladder. And just in case you feel shy, it can accommodate 4 person at once so you and your mates can do it together. How thoughtful. :)


Day 2 was about museums and all those cultural things. Basically free individual time for the whole day. Van Gogh Museum, Ann Frank House, Rijksmuseum, was among the famous ones but heck, with lines as long as the canals there, our alcohol soaked brains directed us to the Heineken Brewery for our "cultural experience" in Amsterdam. 11 euros per entry, 10 of which was subsidised by MASSOC. Thanks again! Did some monkeying around the park before heading to Heineken.

Put it this way, the sun was pretty bright that day.

m for MASSOC. The whole MASSOC Crew who went for the trip. Pardon that homeless looking gay guy on top of the "m".

3 chips for drinks and 1 white chip for souvenir.

Shut and don't comment on this picture!

This is how thousands of Heineken bottles looks like

And this is how it looks like when you're high on crack

A certain individual who got pretty offended by the fact that i exchanged my last chip for coke.

After Heineken was the Sex Museum, which I will not post any of the pictures up to keep this blog under "G" rating.

Day 3 was about Clog, Cheese, Flowers. Planned tour visits to the Clog and Cheese Factory, Cycled around the canal with an old bicycle that had no hand brakes. The only way to stop it was to reverse pedal. Apply too much pressure and you'll jam the brakes and fly forward, apply too little and you end up not stopping at all and head for a dive down the canal. Nice.. Pictures at the starting of this blog entry was taken at day 3 during the tours.

more of it here



Headed back to London on day 4. Goodbye signs that I've got no idea what they say and hello English! Transportation across the English Channel was via the channel tunnel using the Eurostar train.

Yes, they fit buses as well, as below:

Now, how cool is that?!

Eurostar

View from inside the Eurostar:

Sure, every company in the world call themselve No. 1. Like, who wants to be the loser?


Some random building that I assume the designer must be on crack while designing

For those who asked for pictures of the Red Light District, although being one of the most liberal country in the world by legalising prostitution and soft drugs i.e. marijuana, photo taking is strictly prohibited for the sake of the privacy of individuals in the RLD.

But for the sake of you readers, I hereby attach a picture of some Red Light..


my disco mouse when it is red:

Red Light also, mah.