Amsterdam Trip

Oh no ! Its December already ?

In two weeks time, my classes will ended. I can say bye bye to my first semester in Brookes Uni . Somehow, I feel very grateful to have a chance to study in such a great university, but heck, this Masters programme really tighten up my arms and legs from moving . Seriously, no joke . I even abandoned my blog for almost three months ? Man, I love writing, but writing essays for the modules are even more important . Now, still, I'm in the middle of finishing my essay, but my brain went jam ! And I'm taking a lil' detour to write something tonight hehe .

Yeah AMSTERDAM ! (Okay, this is a basi story but I still wanna write about this!)

I went to Amsterdam for my study visit last months . Oh my oh my, it was orgasmic ! What ever articles in paper wrote about Amsterdam,or the pictures in every postcards have Amsterdam in it, they're all damn true . Amsterdam is such a nice place to visit, and if you are planning your honeymoon, Amsterdam is one place you want to put in your list . The city is clean, the architecture are magnificent, the food is super yummy, and the Dutch people - - - - very good looking :) Okay I'm out of vocabulary already, told ya already that my brain is totally haywire tonight.

We stayed there for 4 days and 3 nights, and thanks to our beloved lecturers, our hotel is located inside the Red Light District . Cool nuff ? But it's not as bad as what you'e thinking right now . The RLD now is not trashy and even it is elevated to be one of the famous tourism attraction (not because of the "thing" okay!). Yeah its true you can see shrooms, "brownies",  marijuana, ganja, high-class prostitutes every where near the street but its all seems common because nobody make such a biggie about it, its legal man . (okay, I think I started to write like a crazy-Jamaican-woman here)

We had two days to visit our assigned site, and one day free for self-tour. We went to Amsterdam University for the second day for three-hours lecture, given by the local authorities. And on the third day, I bought the one-day ticket and went for self-tour around Amsterdam . Because its Autumn, so the daytime is shorter, and time was my biggest constraint that day . But I still could strike out almost three quarter of my "must-go" lists :) I went to Anne Frank Museum, Van Gogh Museum, the iconic "I AMsterdam" , Hard Rock Cafe, the Dam, the Flower Floating Market and the High Street for some shopping .

Dutch breakfast, Pankoek and the weird-name-Dutch-fried-rice (hey ! They even had fried rice !)

In the tram, CW again and again 

The famous Dutch wooden clog, too bad, its too early and nobody was there to take 

a picture of me and the clog. Sigh sigh.

 

The only lunch I had that day , Starbuck Choc Chip

We had to go Almera for the last day, and headed back to London at 9PM. I never travel alone before and this was such a great experience for me, that I'm gonna treasure for the rest of my life. So now, Amsterdam - - CHECKED ! What's next ?

Almera's town (1) and (2) . Can you see the modern Dutch architecture ? Nice building, yet functioning. Not like some of other "display" building . Cool .

PS : Even myself couldn't remember what I was wearing for the whole trip. So no updates on the 'What-I-wore" in this post . In fact, I was a total mess . Malu .

Loue,