Day: 54
I wasn’t quite sure how to spend the day when I woke up this morning. After breakfast I sat down at my computer and started to edit yesterday’s pictures and write my blog entry. I was in a good mood and I was able to accomplish much, so I spent until about 4pm sitting in front of my computer editing, organizing and photo-shopping a back log of pictures that I’ve been procrastinating on doing for the last two weeks. I now have, up-to-date, two hard drive and one DVD copy of everything that I have deemed worthy of importance (roughly 300 pictures). The daytime was kind of like a work day for me, and even though I was sitting in Prague I still was putting business first. I am not going to lie, I was slightly proud of myself.
Around 4pm the days rain had cleared and the sun was starting to give a wonderful light to the city. I grabbed my camera and headed out for a couple of hours of photo-ops. I climbed the tower on the Charles Bridge and captured some beautiful rooftop shots of the city. The mobs of tourists were still everywhere and moving around the city wasn’t the fastest process, but I wasn’t in a rush for anything. I found an internet café, uploaded my blog and bought a ticket to fly to Amsterdam (actually Dortmand, Germany with a train to Amsterdam) on Tuesday. This upcoming weekend is the Queen of Holland’s Birthday and the Party in the streets of Amsterdam is supposed to be intense. I made a reservation at a hostel for Tues, Wed, & Thurs, but I won’t know where I am staying for the weekend until I am there because they stopped taking any reservations for the weekend. I gave the hostel a call and they let me know there would probably be room for the weekend if I was coming on Tuesday but there were no guarantees. I’m not excessively worried, if I can’t stay in the city I’ll just head to the Dutch countryside for the weekend. I had some leftover phone time on a calling card I had bought so I called my sister and dad each for a quick chat.
I made it back to the hostel just before 8 and settled in for a beer and to watch two guys from Minnesota drink two bottles of Absinthe through the course of the night. I made some new friends and enjoyed the generally inebriated environment. We never even managed to go out, we just hung out buying beers from the hostel receptionist.
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I have more pictures from today, everything’s even uploaded. More Computer problems, Ill have the page all fixed up in a few hours.
Rob
Awsome Rob,
You will love Amsterdam!
Lots of action there.
The best area is called Leidesplein (pronounced similar to: lights-splein) from what we were told last summer. All the college crowd goes there in the evening for entertainment.
“……. Speins” are the squares with restaurants and bars,” …… Gratts” are the canels, and “….. Stratts” are the streets in the Dutch language. At least that was what we learned, and it helped alot in getting around.
Their internal tram system is very dependable.
It works like the Metrolink. You can buy a single round trip for the day for 1.6 euro, or a 10 trip ticket very cheaply (forgot the amount but was a big savings).
Hope the time is great!
Love, Mike
Nifty lamps.
Hey Rob,
Which Hostel have you called/selected and roughly where is it in Amsterdam?
I would like to locate it.
Hey Rob,
Funny to read that you’re going to Amsterdam. Where did you hear about the famous queensday party?
Greetz/Robin
(who? One of the dutch you met at the Treehouses and probably allready forgot about)
Someday you should ask your Mom about our experiance at the “Grasshopper”. It was quite a nite.
Enjoy yourself and stay out of trouble (yeah right).
How about some pics of the red light district?