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After a long flight from Calgary we arrive in Amsterdam. Our luggage did not make it though!! We had a mad rush to catch our connecting flight on Frankfurt, it took us 25 minutes to get from one side of the airport to the other! That place is huge!! So anyway, we report that our luggage is missing and continue on.
What can I say about Amsterdam, well having never been to Europe before I am in awe of the history of the place and how old everything is. The buildings are beautiful and the locals are very friendly. As we arrived at the hotel quite early we decided to go the heiniken brewery first and learn a bit about what I was going to be drinking. The brewery is huge, and we got to experience the entire process of the beer making, including us being bottled!
After that we took off and went to see the notorious red light district. Well, that certainly puts meaning to saying " window shopping". Once we had managed our way through the loads of stoned and drunk English tourists ( god, they are so annoying!) we went off and had quite possibly the best pizza ever! (although tan says 2nd to Italy but still tasty).
The next day we did a bunch of sight seeing, Anne franks house, diamond museum, hemp museum and went for a bit of wander around the place. Getting around in Europe is quite easy, their are plenty of trams and buses and
They are always on time! Melbourne could use some of these guys ideas.
That night we did some more window shopping and went out for a few beers after dinner. I dont think you can do more than a few days in Amsterdam city, as the nightlife Is pretty repetitive.
The next morning we had an early train to catch to Berlin.
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