Amsterdam Centraal

Amsterdam -- a city famous for its culture and history, magnificant art and winding canals--a city never sleeps nor fully awakes. I was there for seven days on business and I struggled to find a good night sleep as my hotel was right at the doorstep of central station. My sleepless nights were rudely buffeted with shrieking honks from the street; constant traffic with people coming in and out of the room and a strange sputtering sound happening only around the middle of the night.

Confused and angry, I wandered about and found this type of store scattered around the city's many narrow walkways and allies. I was offered drugs several times on the street and in the train station. I turned it down each time. I heard people get robbed from buying drugs on the street, so I consider myself warned. Plus I don't do drugs not even for recreational purpose. Drugs are simply not cool in my book. By the way, isn't canabis illegal even in Holland?




I know it's not fair to judge something without full knowledge of facts or seeing the big picture. But my culinary experience in Amsterdam was not so good either. The steak was hard, the veal was harder, not to mention a puny bottle of water cost 2 euros(around 3 US dollars). Even the "capital of the funk food country"could do better than that.



Train Station


Here I was pretending to have a good time over there.

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