And we get you 😎
Your bike situation, still in the friend zone. It’s a sight like nothing else, as you play today’s version of real life frogger with the undefeated, lance Armstrong competitive, cyclists…or as our tour guide affectionately called them: psyclo-paths. The 687,000 beach cruisers, equipped with bells and baskets, rule the cobblestone streets. Often times, flying by dapperly dressed and whistling a tune, so it’s a real mind blowing experience.
Once we understood the hierarchal transport culture, we navigated through the blocks and blocks of brown stone-esque buildings sitting atop the canals, over 88 canals in the city. We found out from our tour that the city sits 3 meters below sea level. Yes, we did another tour and no we haven’t signed up to work for the tour company…yet 😉
We tasted fresh brewskis the first night, sat at a local brewery, enjoyed the daylight, people watching and attempted to understand the language. Even attempted to say a few words, but sounded more like a throat clear than the beautiful Dutch language.
The tour the next morning, again, was wonderful and learned so much about the over 400 year old city. It was misty, windy and a little chilly but when you live in a desert you jump at the chance to wear your raincoat and enjoy some soup and comfort food, a great recommendation from our guide who joined us after the tour. One of the tour takeaways, the Dutch are good with their money and knew how to show it off back in the day. It’s also the home of capitalism and where the stock market started.
We were able to get tickets to the Ann Frank House after some diligent and persistent computer work. Quite emotional and intense, but definitely a must do.
Headed back to our hotel, dried off and headed off to our next tour 🙋🏼♀️🙋🏼♀️
This tour took us all along the canal system, as we resumed our photo shoot session-Amsterdam on the Water 💦
We headed to the back of the boat, initially to get away from the 6 American girls..because let’s just say we’re not going to increase our popularity if this obnoxious crew is representing us🥴
Turned out to be a good move, as we were able to chat with Fernando, who was tending the bar/snack station. He is a soccer coach/semi pro soccer player. Very knowledgeable about the city and shared our mild annoyance of the bachelor like group of sorority girls who looked maybe 22 years old in their gaudy jewelry and matching Jean jackets. #embarassing
Ended the night checking out the Red light district. Neat to see, and the relationship the prostitutes had with the Catholic Church is actually quite fascinating. Look up that business model when you get the time.
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