Journey: Volendam – Amsterdam
After an early morning walk we set off for Amsterdam. We were super lucky and found free parking at a cool place near the NDSM center (live music, art collective, warehouses, great food). We then caught the free water taxi to Amsterdam centre.
I was really expecting to love Amsterdam but it’s taken me all day to warm to the place and that’s only as a result of leaving the main tourist area and finding a pizza comparable to Brick. I really don’t like hoards of people and get nervous around drunk people, both are here. Rather than going straight to the museum’s we wanted to potter about and get a sense of the place. We saw a few key pieces of architecture, strolled around The 9 Streets, saw The Grasshopper, a condomerie which every possible condom flavour/size/pattern you could ever want, and had a stroll around the red light district.
We came home for lunch and as it was very warm opted to walk the pups around NDSM and saw a Barbie doll peep show – whatever your brain comes up with is likely better than what we saw 😜, and then read our books and napped. Festi Festival is taking place here so we have free live music until 4am 😂🙈
We went back into the city to the sex museum which confirmed people have been at it for centuries and took ‘rude’ photos even in the olden days. Fortunately for you guys I had forgotten my phone all afternoon so you are spared the photos of 6ft penises and terrible mannequins. Much more interesting was the Red Light Secrets prostitute museum, learnt lots of interesting facts and would recommend.
Saturday has become our pizza night and Markles found the best in Amsterdam – I will happily walk miles for pizza and this was delicious! It also took us of the beaten track to a much calmer part of town and we saw the flourescent light museum with very psychedelic artwork and a cool jungle gym which had I not been stuffed would have attempted to play on.
It’s getting close to our normal bed time but it’s sort of when Amsterdam comes alive so we are undecided whether to go out again to a bar and brave the red light district…🤔
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