I am an architecture student studying for the year in Versailles, France. This is a blog all about my experiences in France and all of the other places I travel to while in Europe.
My friends and I got to Amsterdam on Friday night (Nov. 12th) and there really wasn't much to do other than find our hostel and then go out to a bar since it was already 11pm. One thing that kind of surprised us with our hostel is that none of us realized that the one we booked was in the red light district lol. We were on the edge of the red light district though so it wasn't quite the full experience of the red light district that you get if you go about 2 streets over from us lol. The next day though we got up fairly early (early for us lol) and just walked around the city which is honestly really beautiful. After walking around for a while, we went to the Van Gogh ... read more
So Oktoberfest was so much fun. I loved it there. we started out with a group of 11 people and quickly realized that we wouldn't be able to stick together so we broke into 2 smaller groups and that was still too many people to find a seat anywhere. By the time we got there the beer tents were closed to people without reservations but we could sit in the beer gardens around the outside of the tents so we eventually found a spot and sat with this group of French people about our age and an Australian family. It was kind of funny because I could talk to the French people in French to some degree and I could also talk to our waiter in German. I found out that I apparently am pretty conversational ... read more