Exploring cultural and tacky Amsterdam It has never been high on my list of priorities to go to Amsterdam, famous as it is for it's sex and drugs. That just hasn't appealed. So I wasn't expecting much from this city. I was proven pleasantly wrong about it all. For starters, Amsterdam is a very pretty city. If you ignore the aroma of marijuana in the air, you can almost forget that certain drugs are legal here. It is situated on canals and reminded me in some...

On entering the Netherlands, we stopped at a little village called Edam for a cheese and clogs demonstration. We were shown how cheese was made in this part of the country and then shown how a pair of clogs are made by hand, by a very funny dutch man William (I think he'd visited Amsterdam a few too many times and indulged in it's recreational pursuits!). He then gave a very amusing demonstration of his contraption which were a pair of clogs mounted on a pair o...