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Day 5 - Amsterdam!
Anne Franks Museum- After the hour long queue, we made it into the museum. I didn't actually mind the queue as it was a beautiful day and we had the chance to build on the tan. We also had "Anne Franks free wifi" which I found weird and a little disrespectful. I would have happily sat in the queue without but of course I wasn't going to pass up on a Facebook stalk. The layout of the museum was weird and cramped to start with due to it being in the typical Amsterdam type building (narrow) and also because we were going through the rooms which they had stayed in through out that two year period where the family and some friends hid. They gave you a background of Anne before she moved to Amsterdam to escape the Nazis. There was many TV screens with interviews of friends and the people who helped hide them but the one that got to me the most was the interview with her father. He describes how hard it was for him to read the diary as she had always told him not too but he had to now that he knew she had passed and that the government were looking for personal accounts of the war. He said he had never seen that side of Anne and that he felt he never truly knew his daughter until then, until it was to late. He was the only one from the annex to survive the war of the original family/friends. The museum had a eerie feeling about it. It was cold and dark and horrible. There was also this air of emotion constantly surrounding you. We did get mixed in with a school trip of 1st years who were very disrespectful and to be honest, bored. Don't take you children unless the truly understand the story and the attractions behind it or else they will spoil it for others.
Canal Trip - After that heavy morning, we had met 2 women in the queue who had to leave the city and had spare passes for a canal trip, so we went for a lovely lunch in the sun on the canal and then went on the boat trip. I know it's not the Rock and roll type tourist activity you expect from Amsterdam but it was actually really nice. We chilled in the sun and learned of all the buildings and different canal sections. By this point we were totally shattered and headed back to the hostel for our nap!
Amsterdam at Night- The city does come alive at night, it's a party city full of chilled stoners, drunken tourists and worst of all, a s*** tonne of Stag do's!! We headed for food and then to a pub on the canal called Bulldog. It's a really cool pub with good music but expensive drinks. We soon realised there was no way we were gonna be able to pay for drinks all night in this pub and headed to a cute little cocktail bar just through the Red Light District. One Cosmopolitan in and we met in with some lovely Australian guys. They were great chat and we ended up chilling with them till 4. One of them was a music fan who listened to the same s***e as I do and he knew his guitars as well so I was happy to have company. We got some munch and then headed home to the hostel. Stumbling slightly drunkenly into bed at 4 in an 18 bed mixed dorm giggling as we went probs wasn't a great idea. Not much love for us today! Haha! Whoopsies!
Looking forward to our last night in Amsterdam tomorrow!
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