On Monday morning, we braved heavy showers and took a train to Amsterdam where we spent a day sight seeing! The city is arranged in a radial manner, dissected by canals and waterways. Many parts of the city were like Delft, except it is littered with coffeeshops (selling weed, magic mushrooms, liquid coccaine, you-name-it-we-have-it) and sex shops (selling porn, sex tools and prostitution).

We walked pass a huge ABN AMRO and saw through its glass walls posters from its television advertisement. In the commercial, people we throwing down old and torn couches through the windows from their apartments 3 storeys high! The ad then ended with them carrying nice green couches back to their home. The couches were the bank's metaphor of a bank, as the slogan read "dump the old banks", and join ABN AMRO... Dumb but interesting...?

The sleazy side of Amsterdam where prostitutes dance and tease behind glass windows. We were there pretty early in the evening, so we probably missed most of the action (we only saw 2 asian and 2 ang-moh aunties parading in their lingerie behind the glass cubicles). Also pictured is a sex show theatre with a pink elephant as its mascot.

We left the city after dinner via train. It was tiring, as we did alot of walking (40% of which in the rain). Even so, we had an interesting conversation throughout the journey home... The train ticket is a special promotion that allows us to use the train for an unlimited number of times for 2 days in the next 10 days from the day of purchase. We were thinking of going to Amsterdam again on Saturday. Hopefully then we can check out Renzo Piano's Nemo museum... I'll be contented to just look even from the outside!