Amsterdam and Berlin!

Hey all!

Arrived in Berlin today and for dinner, as one would, we had traditional Thai. The hostel we’re at is pretty cool and we’ve run into lots of people we’ve already met which was great. Hopefully we’ll meet the last of Ben’s long lost family here, his cousin Alex, as well as check out all the history that Berlin is steeped in! Tomorrow we’ll go on the free walking tour with Sandeman which we’ve tried to do whenever possible in every city cos its a tour for tips so you can pay as much as you think the tour is worth and the tour guides are fun.

But I guess you’re all dying to hear about our stay in Amsterdam. We stayed in Amsterdam for 3 nights and it definitely was an eye opener. Arrived on Tuesday and ate at an Indian restaurant (it was opposite a huge windmill though!) and on Wednesday we took another free tour through the red light district we’re we tried to figure out if staring was a compliment or a proposition. Smelt some lovely coffee shops (cafes are for coffee, coffee shops for ’soft’ drugs) and saw apparently the smallest house built in an old ally way. Ben likes it here for the high tolerance level for literally everything!

That night we went to a comedy show called ‘Boom Chicago’ which was hilarious! It’s preformed by a group of 4 Americans who use a mixture of improv and skits to make quite often political comments and social observations. Loved the comment on American’s pretending to be Canadians when they travel. We’ve met some American’s posing as Canadians with Canadian flags on their bags and everything though not on Busabout.

Thursday we wondered round the red light district on our own and went to the Hash museum as well as the erotic museum that left Ben and I in stitches! Some of the things we saw are still being digested and I promise to write a post focused on only what we saw there.

Anyway, I’m tired and have possibly had to much baileys with my ice cream which is making me even more sleepy. This keyboard is also quite annoying cos the letters are mixed up and making it twice as hard to write.

Till later!

Ferne