SATURDAY, 4 MAY 2013
TOURIST TRAP, BIG CITY, BIG CROWDS, RED LIGHT DISTRICT
We awoke to another beautiful sunny day. Zaanse Schans in Zaanstadt is a tourist trap open air museum with windmills. A stop here on our way to Amsterdam provided more windmills and lots of tour busses with lots of tourists. There was a chocolate factory in the town that filled the air with the aroma of cocoa.
Next stop--Amsterdam.
It is a big city with a lot of people. Rick Steves describes a walking tour in
his book which we followed. Since it is the Dutch Memorial Day the main square
was being set up for a large ceremony with the new king and his wife.
We felt like we couldn’t leave without taking a canal cruise and a
short walk in the red light district. My take on the red light district? Very
sad, because the young girls we saw all looked so unhappy…it broke my mother’s
heart.
TOURIST TRAP, BIG CITY, BIG CROWDS, RED LIGHT DISTRICT
Next stop--Amsterdam. It is a big city with a lot of people. Rick Steves describes a walking tour in his book which we followed. Since it is the Dutch Memorial Day the main square was being set up for a large ceremony with the new king and his wife.
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| flower market |
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| herring food stop-Jim tried one...NOT Deb! |
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