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Monday, March 1, 2010

Amsterdamned!










































Yay... Finally I went out of Germany into The Netherlands! Welcome to the world of Sex, Drugs and more sex.. hah! This has to be the most interesting weekend of my time in Europe! The Dutch here are like so cool. Drinking on the streets IS ILLEGAL, but smoking pot and eating space cakes are allowed! Prostitution is legal, but not pimnping. The oldest prostitute in the red-light district is 73 years old! (Talk about fetish..)

The Heineken Museum was really fun. But Amsterdam is definitely not the cheapest city to be living in. The world's 2nd most populated city, this place has LIFE, but no discounts for travelling in group or student discounts. (When we approach the ticket counter in the Heineken Museum to ask for students discount, they said" students drink too much." ) Oh so frank and so true. Anne Frank house, I heard, was nice, but when we finally decided not to feel dizzy and get out ass there, it was already closed. oh well.

The Free walking tour guide this time round was Mason. Nice guy, but I feel that this Kiwi spoke really fast and ended the tour in less than 3 hours! Anyway, the tour is free and really worth it. They are paid by tips so PLEASE tip these poor souls!

The hotel we were living in WAS FREAKING GROSS. The door handles falls off and there's mold growing on the ceiling in the shower. There's no room service and it's really really expensive. Good Location, bad hotel,

Alright, I shall be going off now. Will post more pictures soon! =)

Monday, February 22, 2010

Bad Homburg

















The weekend was wonderful. My roommate's girlfriend, Julia, invited me to stay over for the weekend at her place. A real german place finally! Instead of crying in the cave that I live in, I've decided to go for a treat and see one of the wealthiest cities in Germany. Bad Homburg. The castle were used by emperors for showers, and now it's known for its therapeutic spa treatments. (No fastfood restaurants are allowed to be built in this city!)

Julia's house has everything! It's really beautiful like her and the food that she made warms my stomach and heart. I heart her and I hope Ilari doesnt read my blog.
Anyway, we went to stadel museum to see Sandro Botticelli! It was really an amazing experience as I had to wait in cold for an hour! haha...but really, the past masters of art are perfectionist that brough paintings to life, making modern artists who likes mix-medias and shit look like idiots.

Then for the new year's eve dinner, they brought me to Mai-Tai! It's a vietnamese-thai restaurant. What's funny was that the owners of the restaurant were sort of intimidated by the asian and thus did everything the original way, small bowl of rice, a small plate for each person and chopsticks, no forks! (i prefer using forks)

It was a very good weekend.