My room was the Very Small Single room, and the name is not an exaggeration. The entire room, including the bathroom, was less than 10'x10'. I was impressed with the optimisation of space, despite its freakish smallness.
I spent the first day walking around the area and looking for sustenance because I never sleep well on airplanes. The area is quite nice, with loads of bridges crossing the canal and bikes EVERYWHERE. I made it to the Anne Frank House but there was a line snaking right around. I never read the book, so I didn't see any reason to queue.
The next day was cold and rainy. I went to the Museumplein and the coldness prompted me to check out the Rijks Museum just to get inside and out of the wind. I also went in a sports store to escape pouring ice water. I didn't take pictures in the musuem apart from a huge atrium area because I never did anything with all the museum photos I have from past trips. There are these gorgeous trees outside and there is a garden out back with tulips. It was the first day I saw lots of tulips so I was excited. =)
I went to the Vondelpark after, but it started to rain coldness so I didn't really see much of it.
On the third day, I went to the Dam Square.
I also walked to the Bloemenmarkt. These are all floating flower stalls. LOADS of tulip bulbs, hyacinths and other pretty plants and flowers on sale. I would have purchased some but the growing instructions mentioned 8*C and well, the only way I could pull that off in Trinidad is to grow it in the fridge. I loved looking though. There was a Christmas store along the way, like, fake snow, carols playing, decorations everywhere, complete with a sign asking for no pictures to be taken inside. I bought stroopwafels and tried samples in a cheese store. I also thought it was both stereotypical and hilarious to see the Cannabis Starter Kits.
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