Well, woke up in the morning with weird feeling, yes, it was the time of the year again, the first friday the 13th with full moon this year, so i decided to make it special by taking the train to the capital of lowland, The Amsterdam, the place were you bumping to tourist from all over the world who thought riding a bike after a smoke of joint is cool ...NO IT IS NOT COOL!!, it is stupid and danger...and peeing against the wall so not European dumbarse! we got public loo on every corner of the street , ...but well, dont give someone a handshake afterwards , deal ?
In the train i tried to enjoy my flat country, i am missing the mountain, its still green and beautiful though , if only i can ask the wizard to give us hills , t would be amazing.. no i won't post some windmills or clogs, as i havent seen them today.
What made me happy when i am in the Dam ? The canals, old Dutchies houses, the bikes, the cheese shops, the happy cakes shops, the red light districs, the tourist who prentend to ignore the working girls, the happy senior citizens with beers in their hands and singing Andre Hazes song from the brown cafe, the china town, where i can eat my favorite Schezuan foods and drink sweet bubble teas, the smell of weeds from the coffee shop where you only order weeds instead of coffee, i might need to stress this out " the Netherlands is the only country where you can smoke pot with the police " We are not the drugs country, we just enjoy the good life, you can say everything about our law and our govt, but you won't see any homeless people in my country, yes you will meet plenty of drunken or high folks , but no homeless, i never terrified to walk in the Dam in the middle of the night by myself, i will feel totally save as we trust our Police, and we do believe to mind of our bussiness. Any way, i spent my day wandered around the city , have had dinner in China town, and grab some bites from the wall, yes, we are not only showing working girls on the wall, we also sell snacks , don't ask me what these UFO's made from ( UFO= undefined fried object) ... oh i need to tell you , we Duthchies love to deep fried or mash our food, and we love our Mayonaise... don't ever tell a Dutchie that the Murican or Belgium Mayo tasted better than ours, you will get a dead stared.
After a while i need to find some good cheese shops to taste some good cheese, yes i only eat European Cheese by European i mean Dutch cheese, I think the best in the world,i mean i am safe at home now, so i can say that :)
I tried and bought some of my fave one, The Old Amusterdamer, an amazing mature cheese, salty but creamy, so amazing, and tasty, you gotta try this one !I am a lactose intolerance, but i would risk my life to eat these yellow stuff.....
After walking around the city, i told you i am not telling you where to go or what to do, i just wanna bored you with my day to day trip, if you want to know about what the Dam offered you , go to Wikitravel, there are tons of smartarses would love to tell you what to do... i hate it i just want to do what i like ....
I stop infront of the Amsterdam Palace and realized we ( tax payer) paid too much money to maintain this monster of building without even have had chance or allowed to go inside... ugh the Monarchy :(, i think tourists have more chance to visit inside this buildng than us.
in the train, when i was trying to candid the full moon, i told myself , Duchieland was not that bad, yes, we don't have mountain or waterfalls, but we have canals, we have cultures, we have story to tell our next generation, we have lots to be proud of , we don't have spectacular landscape, but we have amazing history.... my old man alywas said, " the grass always seems greener on the other side of fence "...... so yeah, this is a wake up call, i should be proud of my country ....
Sept, 13th, 2019, Amsterdam
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