I have spent a lot of time walking around since I've been here. It's pretty compact and most things are within a thirty minute walking radius.
Yesterday I went to the Historich Museum. I also had a delicious lunch with incredible mint tea with a bunch of actual mint leaves in it. I was so excited.
Last night I met up with one of the people I found at the pub crawl Friday night with the intention of going out to the bars again, but we found that the group was composed mostly of (what appeared to be) fourteen year olds dressed as fairies. I walked into the bathroom and could barely reach the sink to wash my hands because there were hordes of them blocking the mirror, smearing glitter all of their faces. Needless to say, we abandoned the pub crawl for a coffeeshop. A disclaimer to my parents and whomever of my elders are reading this: marijuana is highly tolerated in the Netherlands, and smoking in a coffeeshop is on Lonely Planet's top five things to do in Amsterdam. So I don't feel guilty saying that I Indulged and got remarkably stoned.
A group of Asian men asked for individual pictures with me, so of course I had to get one on my camera too. This tends to happen when I travel.
Are we related?
Today I wanted to get outside of the city so I took the train to Alkmaar, which is famous for its cheese market. Unfortunately the market only runs from April to September, but it was still fun to see a smaller town outside of Amsterdam.
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