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Town Hall
This was the building that Rembrandt's Night Watch was cut down for. “The economic realism of this great commercial city prescribed a tolerant attitude toward those of different religious convictions.”
-Amsterdam Historical Museum
Facts about the sex and drug trade of Amsterdam:
1) There are 200 licensed ‘Coffeeshops’ in Amsterdam. Although the sale and possession of marijuana is technically illegal it is officially ‘tolerated.’
2) There will never be any more licenses issued. You can loose your license if you sell to anyone under 18 or sell hard drugs.
3) Smoking tobacco products in public buildings is prohibited by law, but you can still smoke marijuana.
4) Prostitution in Amsterdam was legalized in 2000 but it has been established since the 13th century. Proving that making it illegal doesn't stop it at all, it just makes it more dangerous for the prostitutes who would have no protection.
5) Pimping is completely illegal. Girls rent windows in 8 hour shifts.
6) A prostitute generally costs 50 Euro for 15 minutes.
-Information from the Free walking tour of Amsterdam
Saturday I visited Anne Frank house. It was a memorable experience. I swear I was near tears the whole time. It was so sad, especially the memorial book of the 103,000 people from
Me
In case you forgot what I looked like. Holland who died in the Holocaust. It is open to the page with Anne Frank’s name. It is really depressing that so often in history a group of people has decided they have the right to contol another group. Control everything about them from the way they live to when they die. And it seems completely arbitrary in this case. Historically most people are persecuted because they have something that the controlling group wants: land, money, labor, oil, or whatever. Hating someone for their looks or religion is just ridiculous. The actual house itself was larger than I though it would be. There were three bedrooms, a kitchen and a living room about the size of my living room. Maybe 16 feet by 16 feet? There were 8 people living there. After they were turned in by a anonymous source only Anne's father made it out of the concentration camps.
Sunday I visited the Library and the Nemo science museum. I wasn't planning on going to the library but it happened to be right next door to the science museum and I can't resist a library. I researched my trip to India. The science museum was a nice change
Anne Frank Quote on the Wall
"One day this terrible war will be over. The time will come when we will be people again and not just Jews. We can never be just Dutch, or just English, or whatever. We will always be Jews as well. But then we will want to be."
-Anne Frank
from all the art museums. It was completely bilingual, which was handy. Unfortunately it is science aimed at 10 year old kids. Which means there were about a thousand munchkins running around screaming.
Daily Expenses June 30th:
Postcards: 5,50 Euro
Lunch, 2 McDonald's Hamburgers and a Diet Coke: 4 Euro
Groceries (used for dinner and lunches on later days): 15 Euro
Total: 24,50 Euro
Daily Expenses July 1:
postcards: 3,60 Euro
food: 3,50 Euro
audio guide: 4 Euro
Total: 19,60
(had free breakfast and sandwiches which I made from food bought yesterday.)
Daily expenses for July 2:
ham & cheese sandwich for lunch: 1,50 Euro
a new towel and scissors: 3,50 Euro
dinner and snacks: 6,50
wi-fi: 4 Euro
Total 15,50 Euro
Daily expenses for July 3, 2009
Souvenir tee-shirts: 20 E
Diet coke: 3 E
Anne Frank house : 9,50
Amsterdam Historical Museum: 5 E
Wi-fi: 2 E
Total - 39,50
July 4, 2009
Daily expenses:
Mailed package home: 19 E
Laundry: 10 E
Free walking tour
Movie and Film museum covered by Holland pass
Dinner: 3,56 E
Total: 32,56 E
Holland Pass: 44 Euro
-Rijiksmuseum 11 E
-Van Gogh Museum 12,50 E
Building with Quote
"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee/ One clover and a bee And Revery/ The revery alone will do, if bees are few. -Emily Dickinson -Our Lord in the Attic 7 E
-Canal Cruise 13,50 E
-Film museum and film 7 E
-Nemo science center (Sunday) 12,50 E
-discount on Amsterdam historical museum: saved 5 E
Total 68,50 Euro worth of activities plus free map
Hostel for 5 nights at 34 dollars a night = 170 dollars
(This was my most expensive hostel so it was a complete rip off that they charged me for wi fi)
Total for Amsterdam: 131.66 + 44 = 175.56 Euro ~ 246 dollars + 170 = 416 dollars
Rotterdam three days:
food: 35 Euro
Hostel for three nights: 30 Euro
Museum entrance: 4,50 Euro
Total: 74,50 Euro ~ 104 Euro
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kayla
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wow!
that made me cry. that was so touching. i an only 11, but i love to learn about anne frank. screw the nazis!i hate hitler! he is so stupid! why did he have to do such bad things to people unlike himself! he was jewish, his mom was! why didn't he kill himself! why did he not kill his mom! that comment anne made was so touching. thanks whoever posted that! =:(