Itś 8 a.m. in Amsterdam, having survived my first night in the Central Square area. Yesterday was quite a trip from London to Amsterdam. We started with a two-hour bus ride to Dover, then a 90-minute ferry ride to France, then a three-hour bus ride to Belgium, then a break and another 90-minute bus ride to Holland. It wasn as bad as it sounds.
The coach is rather nice, and so is the group. Thereś 41 of us, mostly from the Toronto area, only a few Americans and several from Asia and Australia. Had dinner last night with a 19-year-old from Iowa, an Aussie and a Brit. The latter two had never heard of Derek Jeter. I think I the second oldest, thereś a couple of attractive young chicks. The dudes seem OK to drink with. A lot of them are rather green, too.
Took a little booze cruise down the channel last night, which was quite scenic and gave the group a chance to mingle. Then it was off the one of the typical tourist bars, the Grasshopper, which has a coffee shop in its downstairs area. Those are the places with the pot, and several members of the group brought some back up. No one, that I know of, partook in the cityś other custom: banging hookers. The going rate is 50 Euro, from a qualified source. Not me. Some of those whores weren bad-looking, though.
Gotta run now to head into town and probably do the Heineken tour. Then weŕe off to St. Goar in Germany tonight.
Sorry for the boring-ass updates, but I have like 10 minutes. And I don think this thing is spitting out correct English, either through my fault or a setting on the computer.
pk is definitely smoking up. look at all those commas.
Posted by g at April 29, 2004 2:02 PM