Chips and Pis

Amsterdam photos, maybe I'll write something later, for now the gallery is HERE. Ok, I've decided to write a few more words about, hmm, what should I write about. Well you might be wondering what Brussels best known monument has to do with Amsterdam. Well I only recently found out what Manneken Pis is, before then I thought it was an amusing name for a chip shop. To me this place really stood out as it had a huuuge mountain of uncooked fries, just waiting to be boiled in oil for the next pot head to come by. The snacks and junk food industry is truly booming in Amsterdam, where in England you will have a pub on every street corner, in Amsterdam there is a MacDonalds. On a side note about snacks, for anyone who hasn't tried, Mayo on chips is really quite nice, however I wouldn't bother making a special trip to Amsterdam for this, the Mayo there is kinda average. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't great either, but maybe I was looking in the wrong places. So what would you go to Amsterdam for? Culture? perhapps, there are some nice museums there, visiting the Van Gogh is a good idea if you're into his art, however, it was a mistake for me I think, I found it quite boring and have decided that I don't understand fine art. I guess someone will have to explain it to me. The architecture is quite interesting, some of the buildings have even been designed to lean over time ;) but I guess most people, toursists go there for the red light district and the drugs. If you ask, most Australians will tell you, yup, the grasshopper mate, defiently the grasshopper... in my limited experience, the grasshopper was pretty shitty and was quite expencive. Generally Amsterdam was supprising, I didn't imagine it would be as toursity and family oriented as it was, and I didn't imagine that there would be less of a party atmosphere than in Prague. However, this was pretty much the case as most people were stoned and the alcohol was expencive, so there was not much to do, apart from look at the pretty ladies in the windows. ;) Anyway if you didn't get the link before, HERE. it is again. Yes, he certainly can.