Beautiful Beaches

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Sept. 9

We were exhausted because we had absolutely no sleep last night. We went to Haarlem on a train and stayed there for the night

Sept. 10

We took a bus to Zandvoort which is a beach town where the beaches run for miles and mile along the west coast of Ireland. We walked for miles and miles on the beach and accidently walked across a nude beach. We were a little shocked. The sand was really white and soft and there were seashells, I collected as many as I could. We walked to a lighthouse and then went back to Amsterdam. We did the coffee shop thing one and ended up playing monopoly all night

This is a little FYI and for myself!

- Holland had the tallest people in the world. I can't even see in the mirrors because they are too high
- The whole country is under sea-level so they have built canals going through the whole country and most of them are connected therefore you can get anywhere by canal. (airport is 3.5meters under sea-level)
- nearly everyone has a bicycle and there are crowds and crowds of people biking and when they ring there bells that means "get out of there way" or as one lady told David, "Are you f&$@!£$ deaf, get the hell out of the way."
- there are 400 coffee shops in Holland, only 9% of the dutch smoke marijuana or do mushrooms.
- no new coffee shop liscences can be issued
- not allowed to grow marijuanna
- not allowed to have anything pertaining to drugs in the name of the shop (that is why they name them coffee shops)
- no displays of drugs or menus are allowed to be displayed in the shop.

Sept. 11

We went outside of the city to see the windmills and a cheese factory. We then went on a canal cruise within Amsterdam and seen most of the canals in the city. We were going to go on a free walking tour but couldn't find it so we were a little grouchy and started randomly walking and some dude came up to us and asked us if we wanted to go on the a free tour. We were like yyyyeeeessss. And the guy was even from Saskatoon. He did a really good job. He showed us where Ann Frank was hidden and where Remembrand drew one of his pictures and where a scene from Ocean's Twelve was filmed. Very Informative.

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Photos

Cheese Factory
Me eating a garlic cheese sandwich that I just bought at the cheese factory, standing by a goat.

Comments

[mom]

ill get that info asap ineed help to email you should have wrote it down for me ican read them though im glad youre in germany now luv ya