short trip to amsterdam

it happened that we worked in hamburg (germany) since november 2002, and we had this
ideea to spend a weekend elsewhere then hamburg, as we were bored of the city,
spending there lot's of weekends - and except drinking, net-surfing and harbour
seeing again, there was nothing to do there really.

amsterdam is about 5-6 hours with train from hamburg, so it was no big deal
to get there at early saturady afternoon. we rent a 3 bed hotel room for something
like 90 euro per night, and it was above our expectations. we were 3:
me, my girlfriend and a friend of mine, JJ, another big face on planet earth.

first day we took the usual city tour, saw the downtown, van gogh museum from outside,
and the city canals. the next is left on anyone's imagination. at night we took a walk
in the red light district, and drink some beers and stuff. the weather was rainy that day,
but on sunday there was an allday sunshine. unfortunatly i forgot the digit-cam in
nightly mode, so the pictures didn't came out as i expected. then we took the flying machine
again in the kadinski c.shop. it has a great atmosphere. the last thing we did was
a boat tour on the canals, and then the way back to hamburg, after we succesfully lost our train.

first and last, amsterdam is a great place with lot's of revelations and multicultural
population, but i cannot imagine myself living there for a too long period. amsterdam would
melt me, it would be just a matter of months.

Istvan Hilgert
www.jointsoftime.org