I AMSTERDAM

I just came back a 3 day 2 night tour in Amsterdam! Think i really enjoyed myself there!

Well we took a budget flight from Copenhagen to Amsterdam (only 1hr!) and checked into our campsite hostel. At first it looked alrighty... budden we came to regret that choice later..

We went straight to the Van Gogh Musuem (Wayne hated it). Its a pity i dint get to see the Starry Night (its at New York MoMA). After that we went on to the Heineken Experience! Its really cool! Really worth the 10 euros we spent on it. 3 free drinks and 1 free gift (bottle opener).

After that we decided to have soem Chinese food! Amsterdam has so many chinese restaurants (all spelt as Chinees, i dunno why) and all pretty affordable.

We returned to our hostel and to our horror, the place has no heater!! My gosh it was so freezing cold lah... i think it could be less than 10 degrees.. all of us were so cold we couldnt even sleep lor. u'll see 6 chinese hiding in the kitchen holding mugs of hot water. Luckily Wayne brought his kettle lor! If not we sure cannot make it! Amazingly i managed to fall asleep, so did steph and yinghao! Its really a torture mans. i was wearing 3 layers (including my winter coat), socks and shoes and i used my extra sweater to wrap around my head (well most heat escape from the top of yr head wad). I look like some matchstick girl who is suffering from fits or something. Too bad we didnt take any photos of how hilarious we look.

The next morning Steph and Wayne left early for their countryside day-tour while the rest of us decided to upgrade/change our hostel. Luckily we realised that there were cottages with heaters. Think only Yinghao and i were the energetic enough to do some city tour on our own.

We first went to a erhmm unique*** museum. i must say its very disturbing for me. Well if thats wad Amsterdam is famous for... We went on to see the Koninklijk Paleis (Royal Palace but closed for renovation) and the Nieuwe Kerk (15th century church) and the WWII memorial. We walked along the streets and saw the really old buildings, the 'coffeeshops' and many many gay pubs. We also had time to visit the Joods Historisch Museum (Jewish Historial Museum). That place used to a Jewish quarters and they even preserved the old synagues, giving a very good impression of how the Jews lived in the 17-18th century.

Koniklijk Paleis

Nieuwe Kerk

WWII Memorial

Joods Historisch Museum

At night we walked around the Red-Light District ( well Amsterdam is famous for that rite?) Obviously we didnt take any photos! Sure kena whacked lor.

The next day we visited Anne Frank's House! It super interesting cause they left it the way it was in 1945. All the secret passages and stuff were all there. If u r going Amsterdam, you should really see this.

On the plane back to Copenhagen