About three weeks ago we decided to make a trip to Amsterdam. We took the train all the way into the Amsterdam Centraal and to our surprise it was a national holiday. We pulled in at about 9:30 pm and everywhere you looked people were wearing Dutch orange and every street in the city was closed down for two days. It was shocking walking into that without expecting it. We hadn't booked a hotel yet and the first three places we tried we were told "Good luck you will be sleeping on the streets tonight, It's a national holiday." Somehow we ended up finding a hotel though and then we joined in the festivities for the rest of the night. Amsterdam had a very cool layout to the city. Rivers everywhere and people seemed to always be outside enjoying just being outside, there were coffee shops and local restaurants lining the rivers and every street with people hanging outside it was very cool. Overall I really enjoyed the trip there it was almost otherworldly. Things there are acceptable that aren't anywhere else that I have ever been, it almost makes you rethink everything you were ever taught is right or wrong. A perfect example of this is the photo above in the park. Yep you guessed it, thats an outdoor urinal. I guess that's Amsterdam.
side note- the stairs at our hostel were quite steep.
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