After a much needed sleep in we hit the road again, this time only a short drive into Amsterdam. The weather was against us this day and pissed down pretty much as soon as we got to the campsite. This campsite, 1 of 2 in Amsterdam city, was crap. It was expensive and had minimal facilities. You also had to pay €0.80 for 5 mins of water in the showers! Rip Off. Due to the weather we decided to have a quiet night, and get to bed early, then head into town the next morning. We walked to the local servo and got some snacks and settled in for the night with a couple of movies.
Jo here... The weather still looked grey at times but it was mainly fine day. We headed into Central Station and used our first vending machine that gave us our map. We followed the crowd onto the main street that sold souvenirs and food and housed the sex museum. After some breakie from the bakery we strolled around the city and headed towards the Anne Frank House. As we were walking through the streets something caught my eye in the window as I walked past. So I decided to walk back and have a look and to my surprise it was a lady in some lingerie sitting in a chair staring back at me. I don’t think I could look away fast enough as I didn’t think we were in the ‘red district’. At that point Ads pointed out to me at quite a few of the surrounding windows contained more half naked women! So after removing the shocked look on my face we continued strolling through Amsterdam until we came to Anne Frank’s house. I had studied her novel at school and it seemed that every other school all over the world had the same curriculum! The line to get in was around the block so we decided to come back to it if we had the chance. So from there we headed down to number 7 Singel straat to the smallest flat in the world. It was only 3 feet wide. Admittedly it was the back of the house but it was only wide enough for a door to be installed. We kept on walking through the shops and found our way to the floating flower markets. From there we headed for the main strip of the ‘red light district’ to check it out. From the moment we stepped onto the strip we were asked if we wanted to see a live sex show for €30.00!!!! Hell no! We were too busy checking out the girls in the windows. There was definitely a lady for every man’s taste! They came in all different shapes and sizes including transvestites in string bikinis!!! After spending sometime walking around with a dropped jaw or giggling we headed to a coffee shop as no trip is complete without a trip to one of the very many coffee shops in Amsterdam. For a few more giggles we headed into yet again one of the very many sex shops. We headed straight for the bargain bin and found 50% off butt plugs! Awesome! They also had an extensive range of sex toys and costume wear to make the mind boggle. So after a while of giggling or being mortified we headed back into the street for some fresh air and decided that we had all had our fair share of seeing the real Amsterdam city.
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