Amsterdam - Almere

AMS trip with led by Gerhard, one of our studio tutors, a little after school exploring with a lot of fun and beer drinking. After all , we're in holland, if you don't get propositioned for cocaine by a street dealer in the dark alley of the Warmoestraat with the lovely gay fetish shops, what are you doing here for?

We started with good clean fun, VERY cheap fusion food of japanese, thai and chinese 2 doors down from the famed Nam Kee which looked really dirty, so we chickened out and went to this cute clean place instead which was opposite a temple in chinatown in the middle of EUROPE ...imagine that.

the entire group met up at Dam square and started to explore AMS by nightfall. We went towards Bijlmeer, which was suppose to be your ghetto area, but really, we saw closed shops and not a lot of people, but ..of course, we were just on the periphery. We went towards the Arena and a giant furniture mall, which had a GIANT bed, which of course we all ended up on, why not?

Followed by ending the walk down the alleys, to the Prostitute Information Centre which seemed all very legit and official, other than the mode of business they support. To give ourselves the ultimate reward, we got sodding drunk in a Beer Place, I don't know the name anymore...I drank that much, but really, the selection they have there is AMAZING....think about it, your bartender offers you types of beer like a wine selection, do you like dark, what flavours you like...etc etc...LUUURVELY.

Met G's very lovely boyfriend, they seem like a lovely couple, then struggled to go home to Tra My's in Almere for the night, because we were avoiding the Night Train back to Den Haag. The rest of the Group went of for Musuem Night in AMS, but of course, we're spoiled so we choose for the warm bed and the dad-driven car to Almere Muziekwijk, where we were fed like pigs for slaughter by Tra My's mom and dad. They can cook..fantastically. I've not had such good Vietnamese foood for ages.

Before we left Almere, we took the obligatory look at Koolhaas's new urban design area for the town, had a lovely Creme Brulee coffee in the square and just wasted the afternoon away with coffee and sandwiches. I miss Coffee Bean.