After spending a few days in Nantes, I hopped on the train to Amsterdam with my friends Zoe, Emily and Charlotte. Many people from Grinnell were meeting up there in honor of "10/10," which is the biggest party of the year at Grinnell and takes place on the Saturday closest to October 10th.
Over the next few days we toured the Anne Frank house (very interesting), went to the Van Gogh museum, went on a canal tour by boat, rented bikes and biked around the city (EVERYONE in Amsterdam bikes, I have never seen so many bikes/ such a bikable city), ate lots of stroopwafels, went to an outdoor market, and partied with cool people, mostly Grinnellians.
The red-light district was a very strange place to see, and somewhat frightening. In some areas it was just a narrow alley and the doors with the red lights and girls looking for customers were literally inches away. The existence of "coffee shops" and the whole marijuana culture was also very interesting. That's all I will say about that...
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| Anne Frank house (middle) |
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| "homomonument"- one of the few monuments to homosexual people in the world |
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| on the left is the symbol for Amsterdam (from their flag)- they do love bikes! |
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| "Travel Hotel"- our hostel, with a private room. Just outside the red-light district |
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| The whole city is made up of canals- So pretty! |
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| Me on a bike |
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