Seedy Sin City

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Amsterdam, what can I say? What a city of contrasts! By day there's the canal boat rides, and the tulip fields. Beautiful Architecture, fabulous galleries, and genuinely freindly people. By night, there's drugs, sex, more drugs and sex for sale! Neon lights, sex shops, and women selling their bodies to seedy old men for a few Euros.

I really enjoyed the bulbfields, Andy had some business to do, he's got a high society wedding to do in June if he get's this job he's after so he spent all morning chatting to the owners about possible contracts for flowers for his arrangements. Apparently Andy's flowers are world renowned and he has a gift for colour palettes according to Ted.

We also visited Anne Frank's house. She was a little girl who had to hide from the Nazi's during the war. What was really sad was she lived in this house for years but eventually she and her family were turned in by someone. She died in a concentration camp. All because she was Jewish. Words fail me. I cried for an hour after the visit, and George and Ted took me for a canal boat ride to cheer me up. They've got some lovely bridges here, my mum would love them! (She's a bridge engineer)

We're moving on tomorrow as we need to catch the ferry from Bruges.

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