Walking Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
Greetings,
The point of this update is to remind you that if you come to Amsterdam, don’t be one of those 1 day walking visit to Anne Frank and Vincent Van Gogh Museum, take a canal ride and leave type. I’ve been here 2 weeks so far and I’m still finding it eventful. Also somewhere most people who find it appealing should definitely visit.
So… Amsterdam is still what it last was, since last chatting I believe I’ve still been doing the same thing. Was going to leave then whatever, realized it wasn’t happening. Walked to this new bar and ran into a new friend. We’ll call her Canadian lady. Somehow we ended up walking to this area then deciding to check out the Van Gogh Museum. It was cool but super boring like 94.58% of all museums and if I didn’t have some prints of his up at the cottage growing up, I probably would not have gone. It was a ~15-25 minute walk from central station. Also checked out Vondelpark again, it’s a good time.
Topic of Museums – Never bothered going into the Sex Museum or Vodka Museum, the Van Gogh cost 15 E and the Weed Musuem was 9 Euro. If you go to Sensei Seeds next door, you can walk to the back and you can see the coolest parts of the tour. I walk in the tour and it’s like photos of farmers back in the day… Yeah it’s old, we get that. I can think of better ways to spend most museum entries.
For the last few days, I’ve had these 3 girls from a country I can’t remember staying in the room I’m in. It’s not bad and for some reason I’m locked in at like ~20E a night. It’s typically 55E on weekends and many other places are even pricier on the week days. I think it has to do with me having smokes with the manager who is really opinionated but we get along. She has just been booking me through at that rate. I’m quite lucky in that regard.
Unless you book in advance, you often have to pay full fare on trains. Tomorrow it is 135E to get to Paris from Amsterdam. It is only a few hours. I will check some airlines after this update but sounds sorta unreasonable to this gent.
After deciding not to leave one day, maybe today actually, run into the Canadian girl again, randomly of course. Hang out in random coffee shops passing time until we part ways and I randomly run into the Croatian lady with 2 friends from Argentina and Portugal. This is the kinda place it is, people from everywhere. We went through the red light district to a restaurant, i found way more densely populated areas then I thought.
Did you know they have like these mini apartment complex like things where you walk through these dark halls and women stand at doors to rooms!? Just random people walking around the halls, sketchy. After that the 4 of us went into this club. It was pretty funny and I still haven’t seen strip clubs as fun as Quebec, Canada. That being said, there was this one older lady who was the only one working. Other girls there but it was like people were lining up for her special “Bar Stool Special”.
It’s been “nice” but is raining and still busy as there are always plenty of people here for a night and going to be making the most of it. If you are in some kind of guest house or budget hotel or youth hostel, the lobby is usually busy when it’s raining and that’s it.
It being cold here is weak. Whatever part of the world lives in a nice climate and pays for a plane ticket to go skiing is quite fortunate as opposed to buying a ticket to the beach. Cold and rainy is miserable, even taking a shower in that kind of weather is chore.
If you lived here, had a bike… Lots of great places to eat but also too easy to just eat street, stall and pub food. Do that for 2 weeks and very little else or so and you don’t feel so fit, suddenly haha.
Next update will hopefully be from Paris, France.
